Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jun 17, 2018 22:03:33 GMT
I watched the first episode on the TV series Counterpart the other night.
It has quite a few actors I recognize – J.K. Simmons, Olivia Williams, Harry Lloyd, Ulrich Thomsen (with even more to come, looking at the IMDB cast list, such as Stephen Rea, Richard Schiff, Sarah Bolger, Lotte Verbeek ). Jamie Bamber was also in the first episode. However, the one who left the most impression after the first episode was an actress I wasn’t aware of previously named Sara Serraiocco as the assassin, Baldwin. She was quite awesome.
After watching Orphan Black for five seasons, I can’t say the effects implemented for showing two J.K. Simmons onscreen at the same time were that impressive (Orphan Black gave us four or five Tatiana Maslanys onscreen at the same time, after all), but I did get more interested once the two versions of his character started interacting (I especially liked when he told off Jamie Bamber’s jerk of a character_.
There were some logic leaps required. And from the moment the other Howard from the other side asked what he needed to know to take his counterpart’s place, I thought “Tell him you give a flower to the desk at the desk!”. He had plenty of chances to, but of course ‘conveniently’ forgot to – which led to Baldwin getting suspicious and figuring out something wasn’t right. It’s rather frustrating when characters can’t remember something that the audience can.
Anyway, it was a promising start...but unfortunately it seems like the channel which aired the first episode here only put on that one episode and then expects everyone to watch the rest via their website/’streaming’ – which I have no intention of doing. It was the same case with the TV series Hard Sun on another channel – we got the first episode...and then no more. I had to wait for the DVDs. I guess if SBS doesn’t bother showing the rest of this series on the TV, I’ll be waiting for the DVDs of it too – which is really annoying, considering how much rubbish is on the TV, then we get something of good quality like this and we can’t even watch it past the first episode.
Anyway, I’d give the episode 8/10.
It has quite a few actors I recognize – J.K. Simmons, Olivia Williams, Harry Lloyd, Ulrich Thomsen (with even more to come, looking at the IMDB cast list, such as Stephen Rea, Richard Schiff, Sarah Bolger, Lotte Verbeek ). Jamie Bamber was also in the first episode. However, the one who left the most impression after the first episode was an actress I wasn’t aware of previously named Sara Serraiocco as the assassin, Baldwin. She was quite awesome.
After watching Orphan Black for five seasons, I can’t say the effects implemented for showing two J.K. Simmons onscreen at the same time were that impressive (Orphan Black gave us four or five Tatiana Maslanys onscreen at the same time, after all), but I did get more interested once the two versions of his character started interacting (I especially liked when he told off Jamie Bamber’s jerk of a character_.
There were some logic leaps required. And from the moment the other Howard from the other side asked what he needed to know to take his counterpart’s place, I thought “Tell him you give a flower to the desk at the desk!”. He had plenty of chances to, but of course ‘conveniently’ forgot to – which led to Baldwin getting suspicious and figuring out something wasn’t right. It’s rather frustrating when characters can’t remember something that the audience can.
Anyway, it was a promising start...but unfortunately it seems like the channel which aired the first episode here only put on that one episode and then expects everyone to watch the rest via their website/’streaming’ – which I have no intention of doing. It was the same case with the TV series Hard Sun on another channel – we got the first episode...and then no more. I had to wait for the DVDs. I guess if SBS doesn’t bother showing the rest of this series on the TV, I’ll be waiting for the DVDs of it too – which is really annoying, considering how much rubbish is on the TV, then we get something of good quality like this and we can’t even watch it past the first episode.
Anyway, I’d give the episode 8/10.