[#74282]
Written by: bdpatrick [10/01/2008, 19:50]
fyi, trailer park boys is not produced by the cbc.
as for the border, i loved it and will keep watching it.
[#74730]
Written by: kurai [14/01/2008, 14:46]
hrmmmm ... finally got around to watching this.
gotta say - it's not great.
it looks like the project started out with the bare bones of a reasonable
idea, but along the way it's been sexed up and dumbed down into an overwrought
simple minded mess.
don't take the comparisons to intelligence too seriously - all it shares with
it is nationality and the name of one of the agencies. other than that it's
not even in the same league.
ah ! *snaps fingers* just remembered what it reminds me of - a us show from
a couple of years ago called threat matrix. not so much in terms of direct
situations and themes, but the ham-fisted and clunky way it dealt with plots
and characters.
oh - and the acting ? cardboard would be ashamed.
pity really - i guess i've been spoiled and expected everything that comes out
of canada to be as good as slings & arrows, da vincis inquest, intelligence,
regenesis, durham county etc, but in this case the producers seem to have
copied the major us networks just churned out a formulaic bit of forgettable
rubbish to fill space between ad breaks.
