Yawn.

[healingmirth]

The Gracepoint trailer looks pretty much like a shot-for-shot duplication of the opening scenes in Broadchurch, very much aided by the presence of David Tennant and that the actress playing the mother here has a very similar appearance, or at least styling, to how Jodie Whittaker looked. I wasn't super excited to watch it to begin with, but now I'm even less so.

I'm trying to think whether I've seen enough of both the US and UK versions of any thing that's been remade here. Queer as Folk, The Office, Coupling, Shameless...? Only one or the other for all those.

I found basically everything about Broadchurch really satisfying, and while I'd be up for exploring the same type of story within the US culture and media context, the idea of just delivering the same plot points again, but this time in American accents, just leaves me so, so bored. No matter how prettily executed.

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Suits is back tomorrow! I actually found the back half of last season really satisfying, and I can't remember whether I made it back here to say that. White Collar still sits on my DVR unwatched, mocking me every time I scroll down that far. I'm not sure it has anything to offer me. Suits, though, I'm excited to see go new places, and I actually like how they are treating the whole ensemble, and I'd watch Zeljko Ivanek in almost anything, so I hope against hope that he pops up some more.

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Haven't watched the Turn finale yet. Had sort of forgotten about it, if I'm honest. Not a great sign.

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[muccamukk]

On the other hand, it's filmed in my home town so I'm SO THERE.

[healingmirth]

That's awesome! I have definitely watched things more badly made than Gracepoint could possibly be to see how they use familiar locations, so I hope it's a good experience for you :)

[muccamukk]

Plus I have at least one friend who's in it. (Also I won serious cool points with my teenage sister in law for finding David Tennant for her).

I watched friggen Cedar Cove because it was filmed here, though that did have a plot wherein John Sharidan and David Martel teamed up to save a lighthouse.

[king_touchy]

I haven't watched Turn yet, though I have all the episodes saved to marathon. I'm kinda bummed that the online chatter on dw and tumblr is lackluster. Oh, speaking of filming locations, Turn was filmed near my neck of the woods. No sightings, though.

[healingmirth]

Now that I've seen the finale, I'm glad I stuck with it, but it was really rough going in the middle for "quality" TV. Almost all of the scenes in Turn, individually, were really good, it was just stitched together poorly, and I think needed a longer season to do justice to the size of the story they were trying to tell, and that was where I got frustrated.

By the last two or maybe three episodes, they tightened the focus a lot, and I think the finale was probably the best of the season, both in terms of being put together as a coherent episode, and in terms of the payoff that one would want from a finale.

[wishfulclicking]

I'm excited for Suits too with its new direction. The characters needed a shakeup, though I do wonder how, or if, things will get back to the more standard fare. I do want to see Mike in the new environment for at least some episodes, and I wonder how he will get back to the firm.