“Bionic Woman” (2007)
Anne says:
If you are of a certain age (over 30) and of a certain persuasion (geeky), you probably remember The Bionic Woman the softer-core peddling of American values designed to capture the female 15 and under audience that was being lost by The Six Million Dollar Man in 1976. A quick recap to freshen the memory for those of you with out the auto-geek switch.
The show’s central conceit wasn’t the bionic replacement of limbs and organs – the melding of human tissue with computer technology in an age when the average computer filled a 9′x12′ room – nor was it the idea that a government agency could be fielding operatives who were using experimental technology to achieve slightly shady mission objectives. After all, we’d just come off the Watergate Hearings so the idea that our government was doing something we didn’t know about seemed not only plausible but damn likely. [Read more →]
Not just another ‘Medium’ clone.
O.k., it’s been on for 2 months and I was initially non-plussed when I saw a preview back at the end of August.
While I was hanging out in a DishTV household late last month, I had the opportunity to revisit 2004′s ‘Century City’ and see a few of its unaired 9 episodes on Universal’s HD satellite channel.
Whoah.
So, I’ve just finished watching the best new show of 2005, one which will likely never be broadcast or see film beyond the pilot episode. That show is ‘Global Frequency’, based upon the comic book by Warren Ellis and a broad swath of illustrators.
First things first – let’s lay out the dirty linen: I avoided this thing during normal waking hours, given the ‘noir’ log-line and the Jim Belushi principal. But between 3 and 5 am, this film was pure gold. Sometimes things just work out that way, especially if you miss the first 10-20 minutes, as I did; years of insomniac viewing have taught me that some beginnings are better missed than seen.
