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Movie Quality on TV


It's February 2009. I just saw all 7 episodes over the last 5 days on HULU and I am just blown away. I was just totally engrossed with each episode. The casting, story lines, the writing, the acting, the pacing, the editing, even the cinematography was excellent! I felt so refreshed finding something on "TV" that holds my attention and challenges me to try and figure things out, while at the same time finding empathy for the main character that Jeff Goldblum played SO WELL. I really could not imagine another person playing the lead role and grabbing me the way he did.

I never watch TV anymore. There is just too much "crap" and sensational sleaze and cheese. Maybe that's what the public wants and the networks try and give it to them. Maybe there are just too few people who are looking for and demanding quality anymore.

Thank you, NBC, for taking the chance with this. However, it's sad, very sad that no one at the executive level championed this wonderful show. Shame on you, NBC.

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Don't get me wrong, I like Life too, but it is among the canceled shows. So it couldn't have been that much better than Raines. These shows may be good, but no one is watching out there. They would rather watch lame fake action shows and reality shows.


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NBC kept moving the show around or putting something else in its place so people just stopped paying attention when it really is on.

NBC has a habit of killing good shows and keeping the rubbish. They canceled Medium too, but CBS will couple it with Ghost Whisperer, but I am not sure which night it will be on.

If I didn't know better, I would say NBC is trying to kill itself, they've already killed themselves as a news source. No objective pov there. Imelt must have an office at the White House the way they fawn over Obama so much.


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Ofcourse it's good, it's canceled. Canceled shows are usually better than shows that aren't. I mean, look at Firefly.

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