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The Inside
Jun. 12th, 2005 12:40 pmSo I finally got around to watching Tim Minear's new US Show, "The Inside". ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
coalescent has already reviewed it and there's a very positive review on Cinescape Online, here.
Overall my first impressions are mostly favourable, and the show has lots of potential. It's superficially akin to any number of FBI shows in the Without a Trace vein, but tonally comes across more like a TV version of Silence of the Lambs or even Seven1. Clarice Starling even gets a tongue-in-cheek namecheck. The show freely borrows any number of stylistic tricks from Minear's earlier work on Angel, but deploys them effectively to create a dark, grim police-procedural atmosphere leavened by the effective characterisation.
( Mild spoilers... )
Broadly speaking this episode lays solid foundations of character and setting, and exhibits a great deal of promise. The next few weeks will be the real test of the show's longevity.
1Only really anally retentive people write this as Se7en. :-)
coalescent has already reviewed it and there's a very positive review on Cinescape Online, here.Overall my first impressions are mostly favourable, and the show has lots of potential. It's superficially akin to any number of FBI shows in the Without a Trace vein, but tonally comes across more like a TV version of Silence of the Lambs or even Seven1. Clarice Starling even gets a tongue-in-cheek namecheck. The show freely borrows any number of stylistic tricks from Minear's earlier work on Angel, but deploys them effectively to create a dark, grim police-procedural atmosphere leavened by the effective characterisation.
( Mild spoilers... )
Broadly speaking this episode lays solid foundations of character and setting, and exhibits a great deal of promise. The next few weeks will be the real test of the show's longevity.
1Only really anally retentive people write this as Se7en. :-)