I was flipping through channels the other day, trying to find the NBC station here in Baltimore — and for what it’s worth, I still have no idea what that is — when I caught a commercial. And it was Sophia Myles in the commercial!<\/p>\n
Sophia Myles!<\/p>\n
Doing American television!<\/p>\n
I put my Google-Fu powers together, and discovered that she had a television show on CBS called Moonlight<\/i>. Which I made a note to remember to tune in and see. Which debuted tonight. Just finished a few minutes ago, actually.<\/p>\n
The premise? A vampire private investigator in Los Angeles. A spunky reporter for a web news portal. And a really obvious — and cliched — relationship between the two of them. There was a murder, and it revolved around a possible vampire cult at the local community college. I’m not going to write much more than that, because that would just be a waste of words. Seriously. A waste of words.<\/p>\n
I will say that Sophia Myles looked fabulous, as she always does, and she has a fantastic voice coach as her American accent was utterly convincing. I do think, however, that between this, Underworld<\/i>, and the recent BBC Dracula<\/i> that she could stand to broaden her genre wings a little<\/i> more. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
I couldn’t tell you anything about the vampire, except that the actor looked a lot like Russell Crowe. The acting was not especially memorable. The direction was either too kinetic or too laconic — it had a bipolar thing going.<\/p>\n
There wasn’t any hook<\/i>. Seriously. What was I watching this for? What would keep someone tuned in? I wasn’t as bored by it as I was by Bionic Woman<\/i>‘s premiere, but that’s not saying much.<\/p>\n
Television producers, listen up. Hook your fucking audience. Hook them, hook them, hook them. If you don’t hook your audience, they won’t<\/i> come back. Hook your fucking audience.<\/p>\n
Sorry, what was I saying?<\/p>\n
Moonlight<\/i>. Not good. If there’s nothing else to watch, maybe it’s acceptible. Maybe<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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