Demons
1x02 The Whole Enchilada
Yes, I'm watching this exactly a week behind. But at least I've got round to watching it, unlike Apparitions or Dead Set, which I still have all of recorded.
The title song is really, truly dreadful -- big dramatic pre-titles, you expect a decent theme kick-in, like you get with Who, or even EastEnders's closing theme... but no, it's some silly disposable pop trash. That should be changed.
As noted at the time, Demons' ratings dropped for this episode. It's not that bad, and it's wonderful to have so much telefantasy (as it used to be known, back in the day) on TV these days, so hopefully it will continue to do OK. Or at least that they'll cancel it for something better.
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]
Eurovision: Your Country Needs You
Episode 3 (of 5)
We don't have a hope of winning Eurovision anyway, but these acts certainly aren't going to do us any favours. At least Charlotte's gone -- despite what the judges... sorry, panel... sorry, what are they?... Anyway, despite what they had to say, her rendition of Duffy's Rain On Your Parade was literally no better than mediocre karaoke. No wonder she ended up in the Sing Off... sorry, "Danger Zone".
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Live at the Apollo
4x06 (16/1/09 edition) [season finale]
Russell Howard: hilariously funny, lots of sensible points about the world too.
Jo Brand: somewhat disappointing, especially coming right after.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
2 comments:
Demons is, in all honesty, rubbish. Its only entertainment value comes from a) Glenister's ridiculously bad accent, and b) Glenister's ridiculously archaic language.
Seriously, without a pseudo-american accent saying "begone, else I shall smite thee", it just wouldn't be worth watching.
Well, it isn't worth watching anyway. Though I still am doing so. Strange.
I only watched the first two eps this week, but I watched ep3 as broadcast for a change, and here's something for you to look out for... there's two instances where characters clearly say the word "shit".
In the first, Glenister says it, but it has been subsequently dubbed over with "shoot". Bad dubbing though, if even I can spot it.
In the second, Ruby starts to say it, but is "cut off" by Glenister. Except the timing is really bad, and I'm fairly sure in reality the actress said the full word.
I'm wondering if this series was originally supposed to go out later at night, but then someone realised that it wasn't at all scary, and was really a children's program. Then gave it a Casper-esque opening title sequence with awful music added.
That sounds rather plausible -- when I first heard about it (via SFX) it was called The Last Van Helsing and the way it was discussed implied more of a 9pm mini-series than a Primeval-esque whatsit.
Agree with your assessment of the accent & language though. "Or I shall surely smite thee, ya freak" is one of the best worst lines ever.
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