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Brain is ded, but before I forget:
Cam and I just finished watching "Moonlight". I'd heard it was a cheesy "vampire P.I. in L.A." story with Jason Dohring (Logan from "Veronica Mars") with obsessed fans who got all distraught when it was cancelled, so when Cam said he had the first (and only) season I was expecting a trainwreck but we actually really liked it. I mean, it is pretty cheesy (especially the pilot), and there are some SERIOUS issues (the whole vampires=male, victims=female thing gets pretty old) but at heart it's got just the right mix of romance, fighting bad-guys and angsty soap opera drama for our tastes. There's a Twilight-esque element of sparkliness (ie the sun just makes them a bit sick, and stakes just paralyse them) and old-fashioned values mixed with sleazy objectification but it's not too bad, the leads have a nice chemistry, and as always Jason Dohring is not the world's best actor but he makes a good slashy vampire (sure, he goes on about all his girlfriends, but the way he looks at Mick...) Also the series finishes on a fairly satisfying end, it's not like Firefly.
Also, it's funny to compare to Angel (the other vampire P.I. in L.A. tv show I've seen) On the one hand, it actually has a regular (if minor) latino charcater and the odd latino extra omg(*) but on the other hand apart from that one guy afaict the only other speaking latino parts are in the "Lets beat up stereotyped latino mobsters" episode. It really made me aware of how little reference Angel has to any actual locations in LA: in Moonlight there's episodes in particular historical suburbs, well known parks etc, much more of a sense of place. Possibly the creators have actually been there, is all I'm saying(**). Some of Moonlight's plots are a bit reminiscent of Angel, also ;)
EDIT: since I'm not sure this is clear: This show is, objectively, in a lot of ways, pretty crap. But I liked it anyway. So only watch it if it sounds like your sort of crap too.
(*)The lack of latino actors in Angel, like the lack of chinese people in Firefly, is one of those elephant-in-the-room casting decisions
(**)Of course, I've never been there, so that sense of place could be totally bogus. But it fooled this aussie :)
Cam and I just finished watching "Moonlight". I'd heard it was a cheesy "vampire P.I. in L.A." story with Jason Dohring (Logan from "Veronica Mars") with obsessed fans who got all distraught when it was cancelled, so when Cam said he had the first (and only) season I was expecting a trainwreck but we actually really liked it. I mean, it is pretty cheesy (especially the pilot), and there are some SERIOUS issues (the whole vampires=male, victims=female thing gets pretty old) but at heart it's got just the right mix of romance, fighting bad-guys and angsty soap opera drama for our tastes. There's a Twilight-esque element of sparkliness (ie the sun just makes them a bit sick, and stakes just paralyse them) and old-fashioned values mixed with sleazy objectification but it's not too bad, the leads have a nice chemistry, and as always Jason Dohring is not the world's best actor but he makes a good slashy vampire (sure, he goes on about all his girlfriends, but the way he looks at Mick...) Also the series finishes on a fairly satisfying end, it's not like Firefly.
Also, it's funny to compare to Angel (the other vampire P.I. in L.A. tv show I've seen) On the one hand, it actually has a regular (if minor) latino charcater and the odd latino extra omg(*) but on the other hand apart from that one guy afaict the only other speaking latino parts are in the "Lets beat up stereotyped latino mobsters" episode. It really made me aware of how little reference Angel has to any actual locations in LA: in Moonlight there's episodes in particular historical suburbs, well known parks etc, much more of a sense of place. Possibly the creators have actually been there, is all I'm saying(**). Some of Moonlight's plots are a bit reminiscent of Angel, also ;)
EDIT: since I'm not sure this is clear: This show is, objectively, in a lot of ways, pretty crap. But I liked it anyway. So only watch it if it sounds like your sort of crap too.
(*)The lack of latino actors in Angel, like the lack of chinese people in Firefly, is one of those elephant-in-the-room casting decisions
(**)Of course, I've never been there, so that sense of place could be totally bogus. But it fooled this aussie :)
