Luck

[SpeedBash]

Heads up, this starts on Sky Atlantic on Saturday 18 February 2012 @ 21:00.

Has a heavyweight cast with Michael Mann at the helm so should be good.

Some trailers below to whet your appetite.

Season 1 Promo Teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biLtGeSDjzY

Season 1: Blood Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x28Wj9SZ4X0

Season 1 Trailer 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNTB-x9eNpQ&fea...

[ItsaTVR]

ETA: Oops, I'm in the US and it seems we're 3 or so weeks ahead of Sky... If it's any consolation we don't get Being Human until Feb 25th.

I thought the premiere episode was brilliant. Directed by Mann himself it is beautifully filmed. I think he's very fond of horses
Oddly, since he's the biggest of the names, I found Dustin Hoffman's character the least interesting. Not faulting his performance in any way.
I haven't managed to catch the subsequent episodes so I can't say if it's holding up.

Just thought I'd comment here since I can't find the Spartacus thread...

Edited by ItsaTVR on Thursday 16th February 22:46

[Northern Munkee]

Okay am i the only one who barely understood a word anyone said? i had less trouble with The Wire, I either don't understand US horse racing, which would be fair enough, I don't care for horse racing period, but i thought most of the cast were either mumbling or speaking some strange twang of criminals English that my ears just couldn't a tune to.

On the positive side it looked nice, as you'd expect from Michael Mann, the cinematography very much like Collateral, Public Enemies, stylish video look, and if anyone thought the musical score sounded familiar I'm positive at least 2 or 3 parts were lifted straight from his Heat score.

I'll try it again, there's a distinct lack of sympathetic characters, I have to say, but I'm toying with turning on subtitles, as I may have missed it.

[PurpleMoonlight]

Started to watch but was feeling sick 15 mins in because of all the camera movement.

Someone really needs to invent something to stop that. Oh, hang on a second ...

[Truckosaurus]

Northern Munkee said:

Okay am i the only one who barely understood a word anyone said? ... mumbling ...

The scene where Dustin Hoffman was in the back office of the restaurant was particularly frustrating as it was difficult to follow what he was mumbling as it was clearly meant to explain the backstory of why he was in prison.

[ali_kat]

Hmmm, jury is stll out - although I admit, I got more than a little upset by 2 scenes (related)

[hornetrider]

Just watched it and safe to say from my point of view - the jury is out. Is it reviewing well? Not sure it's my 'thing'.

[Truckosaurus]

I have just noticed that it is only a 3-part miniseries.

[Halb]

Watching it. It's interesting, I don't know a lot of what is going on though.

[Halb]

Truckosaurus said:

I have just noticed that it is only a 3-part miniseries.

Where did you notice that? Just watched the third one and it seems to be an ongoing thing.

[hornetrider]

Got bored halfway through Episode two... binned it.

[ali_kat]

hornetrider said:

Got bored halfway through Episode two... binned it.

Ditto!

Shame, because it should have been great!

[SpeedBash]

I had a bunch of these stacked up to watch but as the show has been cancelled, decided to delete them.

However, some interesting articles detail the troubled production which, some sources suggest, was the real reason for the show being cancelled.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/0...

[Halb]

Cancelled? They were still auditioning for people last month!

I actually stopped watching.
Shame.

[redtwin]

So much for it being cancelled because of horses being injured or dying. Never believed that story, the show could have continued without any racing scenes whatsoever. The story was about the characters involved in horse racing, didn't need to see a horse actually run to make it good.