I love this show! The lead actress is very appealing, and the writing is snappy. Best fantasy/comedy/drama I’ve seen in a long time.
F*orever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. *
*Moonlight is an American paranormal romance television drama created by Ron Koslow and Trevor Munson, who was also executive producer for all episodes with Joel Silver, Gerard Bocaccio, Gabrielle Stanton and Harry Werksman. The series follows private investigator Mick St. John (Alex O’Loughlin), who was turned into a vampire by his bride Coraline… *
*Blood Ties is a Canadian television series based on the Blood Books by Tanya Huff; the show was created by Peter Mohan. It is set in Toronto, Canada and has a similar premise to an earlier series also set in Toronto, Forever Knight, in which a vampire assists police in dealing with crime. *
and sorta *True Blood. * Not to mention Angel.
Was True Blood and Angel really cop/vampire though?
Forever Knight seems to pass, though…
I said “sorta” since they have detectives who are vampires.
In the earlier seasons of Angel, he frequently worked with Kate, a police detective.
As for this show, the initial ad campaign was utterly awful and almost turned me off from even checking out the show, and it’s title is disturbingly close to one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, but the ads from the last couple of weeks were much better, so I checked it out. It wasn’t anything special, but it was pretty good for what it was, and I’ll keep watching unless it’s up against more shows I like better.
I didn’t know about the Veronica Mars creator’s involvement until after I’d watched.
The lead actress looks a lot like Joanna Garcia (particularly before the character was zombified). Just an observation. Her roommate is all but unrecognizable as the lead from that CW cheerleader show a few years back. What a difference a hairdo can make. If I hadn’t recognized her name in the credits, I’d never have realized.
I liked it enough to give it another go. The only big groaner was her pulling a container of brains out of the fridge at home because hey, if I want to hide the fact I’m a zombie, keeping brains in the fridge I share with my room-mate is a smart move. :rolleyes:
I liked it. I think the pilot was “information dump” filled, but it was really good.
Wow, she sounded almost exactly like Veronica/Kristen Bell during some of the narration.
I think Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kristen Bell, and Rose McIver could all switch roles. I’d love to see Gellar as Veronica or Kristen Bell as Buffy. And now I wouldn’t mind seeing McIver in either of those roles as well.
Umm, people eat brains- cow, pig, etc- pretty commonly.
She also played Charlie’s lesbian daughter’s girlfriend in Two and a Half Men.
J.
It also looked like a meal, not just a brain. It could’ve passed for shrimp.
I had never heard of it and must have passed by it while channel surfing. In the few seconds I saw I laughed. It was a scene where a blonde zombie looking girl was talking to a guy next to a car. The guy asks about the bullet holes in the roof of his car, and she says something about the person was excited and she mimes this pew-pew-pew motions while making finger guns.
Now that I see it’s done by the Veronica Mars people, I’ll definitely check it out.
Her roomie gave the impression they’d been friends for years, so adding brains to the menu would be noticeable. And eating them isn’t all that common - I’ve had them and haven’t encountered anyone else that has outside our family. (They’re more gray than the baby shrimp they kept showing).
That does beg the question: does it have to be human brains? Did she try animal?
The late comic(ix) artist Dori Seda had a nice little biographical story called Let’s Eat Brains that involved an annoying roommate who became hooked on regularly making a dish involving brains cooked in a lemon-creme sauce. Even she thought it was weird :D.
So, yeah - not unheard of, but not terribly common. At least in the in the United States. But with a little concocted backstory you average articulate American zombie could probably pass it off as an acquired taste/affectation.
It may not be unheard of, but it’s more than a stretch to say “pretty commonly”, particularly in modern day big city America. Even less so after all the mad cow hubub. Finding a brain in the fridge would at least elicit a “eww gross” from the roomie (if they didn’t mistake it for shrimp as someone suggested) and require some sort of explanation to cover it up, like “it’s just like how granny made it in the old country” or something like that.
My German grandfather regularly ate scrambled eggs and brains for breakfast. He also died in the 1940’s so I can’t say his was a modern practice. While it’s not unheard of, it’s becoming more and more rare. Since we’ve had that outbreak of mad cow disease and have learned that prion diseases can be spread by eating central nervous system tissue probably a lot fewer people will be eating brains going forward.
I also doubt that a roomie would mistake brains for shrimp. That would have to be one clueless roomie.
I’d say a young girl in 2015 is unlikely to be eating brains and that it would definitely warrant a comment from just about anyone.
Especially if people see her eating them, like, all the time.
CW rebroadcast the pilot tonight and I watched it. It was good enough that I’ll watch more episodes.
I thought it was wonderful. I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes.
With The Flash, this, and Agents of SHIELD Tuesday night is becoming the perfect night to stay in for comic book fans.
The first episode was a little expositional, but that is to be expected.
I liked it. Will other intelligent zombies turn up?
Brian
I love the way they insert comic book sequences into the show.
The British pathologist might get a bit annoying, but probably only because he sounds like the guy from Forever. Let’s hope he turns into a werepoodle or wereterrier or whatever appeared in the comics.