Reviews - EUReKA and How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

[akaihyo]

Just finished watching the first season of EUReKA which is -surprise!- a well written, clever SF Channel series, how often does that happen? It is about the town of Eureka, somewhere in the Pacific NW, established for top secret scientific research after WW2. It is a town run by and for the Global Dynamics corporation and the government. But it is played with a light hand and partly for laughs. Our main character is the new Sheriff and former US Marshall, so he is . . .not like the rest of the town, who are all genius, semi-mad scientists. A fun show. My Grade: C+/B-

We also watched How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog starring Kenneth Branagh as Peter McGowan, LA's only playwright. A slice of life story with lots of chronological skipping, interesting characters but slow and depressive at time. But if you like Branagh, worth seeing. My Grade: C/C+

Comments

[cmccurry.livejournal.com]

Eureka is a regular guest on our Tivo. To give you fair warning: The "Sheriff-Carter-is-a-moron" bit will wear really thin really fast. Of course no one notices how the town idiot never causes the destructive problems in the first place.

[dqg-neal.livejournal.com]

Eureka is a fun show. Although in the second season I get annoyed when they actively ignore certain characters to further the plot. Characters you know would be useful in solving certain circumstances don't get called in to assist.

[akaihyo.livejournal.com]

There was some of that going on even in Season 1. But I imagine it is a hard series to write for, after all, the majority of the character are far, far smarter than most authors.