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Heroes S1.16: Unexpected

While channel hopping I caught the first three episodes of The Riches or to be more accurate the second half of the first two and most of the third one. It’s odd, HBO quality actors, production values and writing scene by scene but it doesn’t feel as if there’s a story yet, can’t tell whether it wants to be a black comedy or something more dramatic. Eddie Izzard is fascinating and keeps you watching just waiting for him to flip into full on Izzardism but he never quite does, it’s positively tantric. He’s not a comedian (he’s a very naughty boy) but a middle aged, semi-(I think) failed con artist, father of four having a mid-life crisis or sorts. Then again if it were an urban fantasy he’d be the pubescent who discovers the netherworld, the audience entry point and part of my current dissonanace with the show is that at the moment he’s the only entry point. So far all the other characters, whether his own family or buffers feel like faeries or monsters not people yet. I can’t remember their names.

Heroes has no such problems with genre uncertainty ( Read more... )