Monday, January 26, 2009
Damages
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I finally caught up with this season's three Damages episodes. I think I was avoiding them a bit because I was apprehensive that they wouldn't be as good as last season's. Tough to live up to the best-written and best-plotted t.v. show ever, after all (IMDb's demanding viewers rated it 8.9 out of 10, for goodness sake). And I promise not to say anything specific enough to spoil anything for anyone who isn't' all caught up.
Anyway, there is a small amount of blush off the rose, to borrow and modify a cliché, in that the moving around in time is familiar and easier to follow now that we know how they use the tactic, but they're succeeding (so far, anyway) in keeping the tension and puzzles spinning. Darned impressive. Several new characters, all smarmy and weird in that slick and successful but scary way. And several of the young men continue to look enough like each other that it's hard to know who did or didn't do things and/or who is or isn't dead, and so on. And here's an important question: will be slightly unresolved questions from last season be resolved this season (e.g., Gregory, David, etc.) or are they just to remain unsolved for all eternity?
It's interesting to note that IMDb has placeholders for a full season three. Dare we hope that means they're already plotting/writing one more season?! I don't know if it could hold up beyond that but it would be great to have three.
Anyway, there is a small amount of blush off the rose, to borrow and modify a cliché, in that the moving around in time is familiar and easier to follow now that we know how they use the tactic, but they're succeeding (so far, anyway) in keeping the tension and puzzles spinning. Darned impressive. Several new characters, all smarmy and weird in that slick and successful but scary way. And several of the young men continue to look enough like each other that it's hard to know who did or didn't do things and/or who is or isn't dead, and so on. And here's an important question: will be slightly unresolved questions from last season be resolved this season (e.g., Gregory, David, etc.) or are they just to remain unsolved for all eternity?
It's interesting to note that IMDb has placeholders for a full season three. Dare we hope that means they're already plotting/writing one more season?! I don't know if it could hold up beyond that but it would be great to have three.
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