Pretty interesting TV series so far. First series I've watched on CBS in quite a while. And filmed in 16:9 HD, no less (which isn't true of all new series'). -G
Saw a bit of it last week. It comes off as a cross between E-Ring and the film Navy Seals. Liked what I saw the first time, didn't catch last night's episode.
Saw the 1st episode. Definitely felt like a Rainbow Six kinda thing (the book). Didn't watch the 2nd episode, but will probably catch it sometime soon.
Liked the second episode - some tense moments of negotiation between hostile parties. The end of the show was interesting (is there an 'R' here? Yep, good). When the Haysbert character gave the terrorist his watch back, I assumed something with the watch would happen. I liked the lack of predictibility that what came was not related, at least not overtly.
A Fresh Air interview with show producers Shawn Ryan and David Mamet(!): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5261072
I'm watching the first ep right now, and the "new wife" is frickin' annoying. I'm half way thru - she just found out she's pregnant - and I'm already tired of the "we are going to live off base" screeching.
Yesterday's Episode 3 was pretty good, though the episode's entry on the Episode Synopses page includes an error: Actually, the group of American missionaries were hiding in Indonesia, not in The Philippines. Still, the series keeps getting more interesting with each passing week. -G
Yeah, caught part of the show last nite. I was listening in, and the language was unrecognizable, I had dismissed it as one of the Filipino dialects from the deep South (Muslim).
Another interesting episode this week, with battles (in varying degrees of discretion) on the streets of Los Angeles, out in the boonies, in the White House and among the wives at home. -G
Anything with just the wives bores and annoys the hell out of me. Luckily I DVR the episodes and fast forward through parts that only feature them.
I'm glad to hear that. For some reason, most shows that I really get into end up getting lousy ratings and subsequently (and prematurely) cancelled. -G
Yesterday's episode was yet another interesting one. Though it was bit irksome (but perhaps realistic) to see what at lengths operatives will go to escape capture, particularly in implicating an innocent unsuspecting American tourist as an assassin just to throw off the local authorities. -G
Good episode tonight. Lots of tension between the Unit and the CIA, as well as between the Colonel and the wives. A note about the different languages spoken in this episode: while the U.S. embassy lady early in the episode spoke three lines of Russian (with the fourth line apparently in Farsi) grammatically correct (though with a thick American accent), the subtitle-writer got the second and third Russian lines wrong: And it wasn't that something got lost in the translation - she clearly spoke completely different lines. I suppose that the CIA (or at least the show's producers) needs to get a new subtitle writer. The actors who played the Russian ambassadors, on the other hand, actually spoke and sounded like their parts. All-in-all, another good episode. It appears that the Unit actually return to the combat zone next week. -G
No matter what she was meant to be saying the best part in my mind is that Jonas probably knew the languages and what she was saying. Last night was my favorite episode by far. Even the wives storylines didn't annoy me as much. Still can't stand the acting by Bob's wife though.
At the least Jonas, if he came from SF to the Unit, would speak one if not two foreign languages What those would be would depend on what group he was assigned to