balboa dave
02-28-2007, 08:06 PM
Yes, I know there are other threads, but none are "official" spoilers-allowed started-after-the-show airs episode threads, so I started this one. Expect serious spoilers.
I'll admit to being a big fan of Paul Haggis. His EZ Streets was an excellent brilliant-but-canceled drama. He also wrote Crash and Million Dollar Baby, both great movies. I watched this show with high expectations. I wasn't disappointed.
I really, really liked this. It was well written, well cast and well acted. Even though this is a series, this pilot can almost stand alone as a complete drama. There was a lot of information covered in this pilot, and it takes a very dedicated viewing or two to absorb everything. Don't give up part way in, because the ending really pays off. Don't read further if you haven't seen it all yet.
I enjoyed the humor of Joey Ice Cream's flashbacks, and the heartbreaking drama of how Tommy destroys his own life in order to save his crippled brother Jimmy, where sending him to jail was the right choice, and how we finally find out he was the one responsible for the accident.
The episode starts with: "So where are the bodies?" After Joey tells this complex story, it ends with the cop telling him, "Those aren't the bodies we were asking about." I thought that was fantastic.
I'll admit to being a big fan of Paul Haggis. His EZ Streets was an excellent brilliant-but-canceled drama. He also wrote Crash and Million Dollar Baby, both great movies. I watched this show with high expectations. I wasn't disappointed.
I really, really liked this. It was well written, well cast and well acted. Even though this is a series, this pilot can almost stand alone as a complete drama. There was a lot of information covered in this pilot, and it takes a very dedicated viewing or two to absorb everything. Don't give up part way in, because the ending really pays off. Don't read further if you haven't seen it all yet.
I enjoyed the humor of Joey Ice Cream's flashbacks, and the heartbreaking drama of how Tommy destroys his own life in order to save his crippled brother Jimmy, where sending him to jail was the right choice, and how we finally find out he was the one responsible for the accident.
The episode starts with: "So where are the bodies?" After Joey tells this complex story, it ends with the cop telling him, "Those aren't the bodies we were asking about." I thought that was fantastic.