TV Show Reviews
Jul. 16th, 2011 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwatersparkFor some reason, I started watching a bunch of TV shows this summer (read: not anime, not from Japan), even though I haven't watched TV since like, elementary school.
The Nine Lives of Chloe King (ABC)
Pretty standard supernatural/action stuff. Girl finds out she's the Chosen One of an ancient race and has superpowers, etc. It's pretty entertaining, though, at least, and the mythos about the Mai (a race descended from the Egyptian goddess Bastet with cat-like powers) is kind of interesting. I smell a love triangle incoming, though.
Switched at Birth (ABC)
This show is actually really, really good. It's about two families who find out that their daughters were switched at birth in the hospital (no supernatural hijinks involved, just plain human error), and to make things more complicated, one of the two girls is deaf. The show does a great job of introducing you to deaf culture, the script and characters are well-written, and the struggles of the two families are dramatic without ever crossing the line into melodrama. Even though Daphne is kind of an ever-smiling cheerful girl, I find that she's sympathetic rather than annoying, and Bay is pretty selfish and irritating in the beginning, but she gets better. The two girls, of course, drive the story, but all the other characters also have their own engrossing subplots (I'm especially a fan of Daphne's friend Emmett.) Highly recommended.
I tried to watch HBO's A Game of Thrones, too, but it was a little too squicky for me. (As was the book itself.) I will say that the show has high production values (with a killer theme song) and an immersive, well-realized world. Too bad most of the characters are violent, backstabbing, scheming sociopaths, and the one family with honor arguably suffers the most.
The Nine Lives of Chloe King (ABC)
Pretty standard supernatural/action stuff. Girl finds out she's the Chosen One of an ancient race and has superpowers, etc. It's pretty entertaining, though, at least, and the mythos about the Mai (a race descended from the Egyptian goddess Bastet with cat-like powers) is kind of interesting. I smell a love triangle incoming, though.
Switched at Birth (ABC)
This show is actually really, really good. It's about two families who find out that their daughters were switched at birth in the hospital (no supernatural hijinks involved, just plain human error), and to make things more complicated, one of the two girls is deaf. The show does a great job of introducing you to deaf culture, the script and characters are well-written, and the struggles of the two families are dramatic without ever crossing the line into melodrama. Even though Daphne is kind of an ever-smiling cheerful girl, I find that she's sympathetic rather than annoying, and Bay is pretty selfish and irritating in the beginning, but she gets better. The two girls, of course, drive the story, but all the other characters also have their own engrossing subplots (I'm especially a fan of Daphne's friend Emmett.) Highly recommended.
I tried to watch HBO's A Game of Thrones, too, but it was a little too squicky for me. (As was the book itself.) I will say that the show has high production values (with a killer theme song) and an immersive, well-realized world. Too bad most of the characters are violent, backstabbing, scheming sociopaths, and the one family with honor arguably suffers the most.
