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revdorothyl at 06:27pm on 15/03/2007 under television as mirror
revdorothyl at 06:27pm on 15/03/2007 under television as mirrorI'm sure I'm way behind on the commenting, since Lifetime showed the 2-hour premiere of "Blood Ties" Sunday night, and "The Riches" started on FX Monday night. However, I couldn't resist putting in my two cents' worth.
First, I've never read any of the Tanya Huff novels that apparently inspired the Lifetime series, so I don't know how faithful the series may or may not be to its source material. But once I got past the fact that the lead actress was someone I'd only seen before playing a pain-in-the-butt, wet-behind-the-ears, resistance fighter in some middle season of the very disappointing "Earth: Final Conflict", I quite enjoyed it.
( spoilerish comments about 'Blood Ties' pilot ep )
As for "The Riches", it wasn't at all what I expected from the promos and from the fact that Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver were starring in it. There are comedic elements, of course, but there's much more drama, and far more soul-baring emotional moments than light-and-superficially-breezy scam-artist moments.
All told, it's a lot less fun, but a lot more potentially thought-provoking and addictive, than I had been led to expect from the way it was being marketed. Of course, I really do miss the days when a younger Eddie Izzard wore a dress and make-up -- I found him much sexier as a "male lesbian". But I'm sure I'll grow to like the beard, in time.
First, I've never read any of the Tanya Huff novels that apparently inspired the Lifetime series, so I don't know how faithful the series may or may not be to its source material. But once I got past the fact that the lead actress was someone I'd only seen before playing a pain-in-the-butt, wet-behind-the-ears, resistance fighter in some middle season of the very disappointing "Earth: Final Conflict", I quite enjoyed it.
( spoilerish comments about 'Blood Ties' pilot ep )
As for "The Riches", it wasn't at all what I expected from the promos and from the fact that Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver were starring in it. There are comedic elements, of course, but there's much more drama, and far more soul-baring emotional moments than light-and-superficially-breezy scam-artist moments.
All told, it's a lot less fun, but a lot more potentially thought-provoking and addictive, than I had been led to expect from the way it was being marketed. Of course, I really do miss the days when a younger Eddie Izzard wore a dress and make-up -- I found him much sexier as a "male lesbian". But I'm sure I'll grow to like the beard, in time.
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