07-27-2012, 09:18 AM
Torchwood Miracle Day
torture.
10 episodes. A co-production between BBC and Starz. So in addition to Captain Jack and Gwen (and Gwen's husband), you have all these recognizable faces from American TV: Wayne Knight (Newman!), Q from Star Trek TNG, the second black guy from ER (I always thought he was a terrible actor and he's one of the main characters here), Bill Pullman, and the daughter from Six Feet Under. I found all of them to be really distracting to the story. The story was pretty weak, and they only made it worse. It was really difficult to watch. Predictable. The only part that stood out for me was in Episode 7 (I think) when they flashback to Captain Jack's past in the early 20th century. It's discovered that he can't die and these locals think it's a miracle and proceed to chain him up and put on a regular show of killing him and watching him come back to life. It was an interesting idea, but not worth slogging through 10 hours of bad TV for 10 minutes of a clever concept.
Skip this one...
--tg
torture.
10 episodes. A co-production between BBC and Starz. So in addition to Captain Jack and Gwen (and Gwen's husband), you have all these recognizable faces from American TV: Wayne Knight (Newman!), Q from Star Trek TNG, the second black guy from ER (I always thought he was a terrible actor and he's one of the main characters here), Bill Pullman, and the daughter from Six Feet Under. I found all of them to be really distracting to the story. The story was pretty weak, and they only made it worse. It was really difficult to watch. Predictable. The only part that stood out for me was in Episode 7 (I think) when they flashback to Captain Jack's past in the early 20th century. It's discovered that he can't die and these locals think it's a miracle and proceed to chain him up and put on a regular show of killing him and watching him come back to life. It was an interesting idea, but not worth slogging through 10 hours of bad TV for 10 minutes of a clever concept.
Skip this one...
--tg