Anyone watching this? It apparently started last night and I just saw it on On Demand. I expected a political thriller similar to The Good Wife. It is not what I expected. Well, it is and it isn’t. The Good Wife bordered on Sci Fi once or twice.
What little info I could find about the show makes it sound worst than stupid.
It’s certainly different. I’m going to give it a chance and see where they go with it.
This seems fun. I like watching the ants. If we’re lucky they will take it to weirdville.
I think it’s going to be political satire with the whole alien possession thing being the vehicle.
House of Cards meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Exactly. Good description.
I do have to wonder how long they can keep it up. It seems like something that could work as a movie, but as a weekly series could lose steam quickly. It’ll take good writers to keep it going.
I’m curious what you read about it that led you to this conclusion. I’m not saying you’re wrong, we all have opinions, I’m just curious what you’ve read.
Borders? There’s a meteor releasing mind-controlling alien bugs. That borders on sci-fi the way Harlem borders on New York City.
Or you could actually watch it. I found it quite enjoyable. Maryl Elizabeth Winstead was both fetching and funny, and Danny Pino releasing his inner creep was funny. Tlny Shalhoub was good as always.
What Brain Dead is is hard to genre-mixing. It’s a comic sci-fi political soap-opera satire.
I said that The Good Wife occasionally bordered on Sci Fi. Brain Dead obviously does not simply border on it, and I never intended to say that.
Tony Shaloub is in it? Then I’ll definitely give it a look. I loved him in *Monk *until near the end the writers turned his character into a caricature of himself. Also loved him on Wings–he was far sexier than either Brian or Joe.
I didn’t read carefully,sorry.
Then I probably won’t watch it. I am sick of the election coverage already.
Regards,
Shodan
No problem. I probably wasn’t clear enough.
It actually starts out as reality. There are TVs showing clips of Clinton, Trump, and Sanders speaking and reporters reporting on them. For the meteor they show some of the many Youtube clips of that big meteor that exploded over Russia a few years ago. A joint US / Russian team retrieve it and it’s transported to the Smithsonian for study, which is how it ends up infecting DC.
Watched the premiere - doubt I’ll watch more. Maybe I’ll give it one more try, but they really didn’t hook me.
The female lead was very good. Her brother was appealing in some respects, but impressed me as WAY too young for a senator. The interweaving of real political events was interesting. And loved that political in-fighting and the gov’t shutdown was - in large part - responsible.
Not sure how they’ll be able to keep it up, even for one season. Is this just a 13-ep one-off? OR expected to be an ongoing series? Seems like an awful lot of folk are already infected. Not sure how any of the uninfected will be able to remain so unless they stay awake and in hermetically sealed rooms. Or will earplugs be sufficient?
Personally woulda preferred not to see the brain drip out of Shaloub’s ear and then explode, or the splatter gore when the professor’s head apparently exploded. (Why? Because he was fighting it?)
Wife wasn’t engaged, so I doubt I’ll record it to watch myself. Maybe will catch on-demand if bored some night when I’m alone, but the inability to FF thru ads would likely be enough of a barrier.
The show creators are hoping for four seasons.
I thought there would have been some sort of quarantine or something if you were covered in blood from someone who’s head exploded for apparently no reason.
Maybe the people who would make such a decision have been infected.
I like how people who are infected take a sudden liking to The Cars “You Might Think”.
Obviously it's a dramatic device to indicate that someone has been infected, but it's amusing.What was the obviously rehearsed line that everyone said to explain the behavior of the merchant marine? It was something about how a sea voyage changes people. Everyone used the same exact line, word for word.