Did anyone else watch the premiere tonight?
The characters of Cocaran, the English wife (didn’t catch her name) of the guy with the wolf-head walking stick and Annie have potential. Kind of like Deadwood spliced with Law & Order.
I recorded it but watched the first half live and then went to bed… it wasn’t doing much for me but I’ll give it another shot.
I meant to watch it, but forgot because I was watching North by Northwest on TCM and, well, Cary Grant. But I see it’s on again Wednesday night at 10. I loved The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye, and from what I can see this show is derivative of that book but isn’t crediting it.
Re above: Her Facebook page says “I’ve been aware of this series existing for about a year now. That means (when one considers the massive work/time it takes to greenlight, fund, cast, and shoot a series) that they have stolen nothing from me, and I heartily look forward to watching it when it airs.”
If anything, this is Gangs of New York with more focus on the other side.
Caveat: I didn’t watch it, just going by the advertising.
I watched it. It was OK, so far. We figure we will watch it for a few more episodes. It isn’t horrible …
And considering that they’ve been showing Gangs of New York frequently for the last week or so on BBCA, I imagine that’s exactly what they want you to think.
The show is interesting enough, but the channel is called BBC America, and I’ve been watching it for British programmes. So it seems like yet another example of channel drift. I hope that this is an anomaly and that the channel mostly sticks to the British stuff.
If you’re just now catching the channel drift, you’re not watching much BBC America. Seems half or more of their lineup has been American stuff with only the flimsiest excuse to consider it “British”, such as Star Trek TNG (which they air all the time) because of Patrick Stewart being British.
As for Copper itself, hated the gratuitous man ass when that one guy got out of bed with the whore, loved the stuff with the black guy acting as an ancient CSI type dealie. Didn’t really like how underage the underage whore looked. Don’t know how old the actress is, but if she is anywhere near as young as she looks, it’s kinda creepy that her parents let her take this role.
No, I watch a lot of BBC America, and I’m well aware of the stuff they show with dubious excuses for a British connection. (Here’s a movie starring a Welshman! And here’s one where the second assistant director is from Manchester (but everyone else is American)!)
I was hoping for something more British for their first original series.
Looked good so far…
If it wasn’t anywhere near Deadwood quality, at least it wasn’t offensively badly written as so many other hyped shows have been. (Political Animals.) Or as in your face preposterous. (Sherlock.) Somewhere over mediocre with a chance of better if all the endless plot set-up results in a satisfactory collecting of the strands.
One thing that worked about Deadwood was that people felt alien and yet their actions were understandable. Copper’s characters felt too modern. The NYC police department didn’t have plainclothes detectives as we understand them in 1864. And the black forensic doctor was about as realistic as Alf. A dead child prostitute wouldn’t have even been a scandal. (I couldn’t figure out why she was killed. Or raped after death. They may be men who like them young and men who like them dead but their Venn diagram shows little intersection.)
I’ll keep watching. I think there will only be ten episodes so it should go pretty quickly.
BBC America is called BBC America because its owned by the BBC and broadcasts in America. They show a decent amount of British programming since they already own stuff produced for the BBC, but I don’t think its supposed to be a British themed TV channel the same way, say, the Sci-fi channel has a sci-fi theme.
While the Beeb does own it, they show a lot of programs from ITV and Channel 4. The boss since 2010 is an ex-MTV Networks guy, which explains a lot.
The channel has gone way downhill in recent years. Huge blocks of crappy shows, especially crappy “reality” shows. I used to watch several shows per week in the Coupling era. Haven’t watched anything at all, let alone regularly, in some time.
(Thank god Tamsin Greig is finally on something good: Episodes on Showtime. Her recent British shows are awful.)
Recorded Coppers, not sure if we’ll get around to watching it.
Not bad, not great. I’m willing to stick with it for a while; I dig period pieces and it’s set more or less in my neighborhood.
First ep was okay. Second ep not so much. We watched last night and couldn’t get through it. Editing is choppy, and some of the acting is just not very good. Time to move on.
If I have a conspiracy between five or six guys to murder somone, remind me not to send the one guy with a broken leg to do the actual murdering.
I only got part way through the first episode before I turned it off and cancelled it on my DVR. That Prince and the Pauper bit with the two little girls was just way too lame.
Not to mention, he manages to climb up to the second story with a busted femur and no ladder. Ain’t happening, not with the best painkillers.
I tried it because I like period drama and I like BBC and the setting sounded intriguing. Alas, it did not hold my attention and I didn’t even make it through episode one. Too bad.