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Maybe this show ain't half bad, afterall. This week, the Discovery gets stuck in a time loop with Dwight from The Office and no amount of groundhogs will get 'em outa this one. Set phasers to vaporize!
Wow. I was not expecting this.
Maybe I was hoping, or dreaming of something of this caliber, but I didn't think they could actually pull it off. This is prestige television. This is what they wanted. This is what I wanted. Maybe not everyone will like it... and maybe I won't either in the long run, but right now, watching it for the first time and caught up in all the hype, I like it. I like it a lot. I'm a little embarrassed to say but I kinda love it. And by God did they spare no expense. This show looks expensive! It's as large a leap forward in production value as JJ Abrams' 2009 reboot was to the movies before it. You can see some of those same visual queues like lens flares and dynamic cinematography, but at the same time,Discovery breaks new ground. They use that Abrams/Apple Store inspired aesthetic not merely as a base color pallet but as a jumping off point to try bold new things. The camera angles, colors and lighting, as well as character motivations, social subtext and story pacing are all befitting of no less a status than Prestige Television (like Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad or House of Cards), capable like all those shows of carrying an entire channel devoted to it's presentation, in this case CBS All Access. Sign me up, I guess, because I am not gonna miss this bandwagon. |
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