Music has always been a constant in my life, somewhere to escape to, a sacred and holy space no matter the occasion and whilst I have never been able to play a musical instrument, not for want of trying, the musical instrument repair shop, an underground world of marvel in Los Angeles offers children from all across the school district an opportunity to envelop themselves in the mighty power of music. Oscar winning documentary short The Last Repair Shop, from 2021 Academy Award winner Ben Proudfoot and accomplished composer, pianist and documentary director Kris Bowers, is a lovingly crafted opus shining a bright light on the humble people who work in the shop and the students whose lives are so deeply affected by the opportunity to play these beloved instruments. The Last Repair Shop showcases the delicacy of the pair’s combined documentarian style as they weave together the inspiring stories...
- 2/16/2024
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
Searchlight Pictures and the L.A. Times Studios on Wednesday announced their boarding of The Last Repair Shop, an acclaimed documentary short, which just received two Critics Choice Association nominations and a spot on Doc NYC’s Short List, on the heels of its premiere at Telluride.
Co-directed by Oscar- and Grammy-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker and musician Kris Bowers, as well as Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot, the film likely to be put up for awards consideration will become available to stream for free globally November 8th, via the Los Angeles Times’ YouTube channel and latimes.com. Check out a new trailer for the short above.
“We’ve discovered such a special film with The Last Repair Shop, and we’re thrilled to be working with Ben and Kris,” said Searchlight Pictures Presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield. “This is the kind of story we need right now, and we are proud...
Co-directed by Oscar- and Grammy-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker and musician Kris Bowers, as well as Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot, the film likely to be put up for awards consideration will become available to stream for free globally November 8th, via the Los Angeles Times’ YouTube channel and latimes.com. Check out a new trailer for the short above.
“We’ve discovered such a special film with The Last Repair Shop, and we’re thrilled to be working with Ben and Kris,” said Searchlight Pictures Presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield. “This is the kind of story we need right now, and we are proud...
- 10/18/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Ludwig Göransson was in the middle of scoring Tenet, Warner Brothers’ most anticipated film of the year, when the pandemic struck — not only pausing most of the film industry’s releases, but also keeping his entire orchestra sequestered, unable to get together in a room and rehearse or record together.
With no clue about when the global lockdown might ease, Göransson and Paul Broucek, Warner Brothers’ president of music, were scrambling. “None of the stages were open yet, we hadn’t figured out the protocols, the musician’s union hadn...
With no clue about when the global lockdown might ease, Göransson and Paul Broucek, Warner Brothers’ president of music, were scrambling. “None of the stages were open yet, we hadn’t figured out the protocols, the musician’s union hadn...
- 12/14/2020
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
Members of the music for screens community — composers, songwriters, music editors, music supervisors, studio executives and others working at the intersection of music and visual media — are lending their talents to a benefit event for Covid-19 relief.
“Soundtrack of Our Lives: A Celebration for the Film and TV Music Community” raises money for MusiCares and features appearances by Sting, Catherine O’Hara, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Elisabeth Moss, Anika Noni Rose, William Shatner, Auli’i Cravalho, John Stamos, Patti LuPone, Danny Elfman, Andra Day, Zachary Levi, Reba McEntire, Clive Davis, Hans Zimmer, Alan Menken, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Alex Newell, Arturo Sandoval, Rita Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Holly Hunter, Marc Shaiman and Darren Criss, among others.
The hour-long show streamed on YouTube — via Variety, Rolling Stone and the GRAMMYs’ official channels — also features special performances, including a musical number by Levi, LuPone, Newell, Yankovic, Peter Gallagher and Fierstein, and a song from “The Nightmare Before Christmas...
“Soundtrack of Our Lives: A Celebration for the Film and TV Music Community” raises money for MusiCares and features appearances by Sting, Catherine O’Hara, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Elisabeth Moss, Anika Noni Rose, William Shatner, Auli’i Cravalho, John Stamos, Patti LuPone, Danny Elfman, Andra Day, Zachary Levi, Reba McEntire, Clive Davis, Hans Zimmer, Alan Menken, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Alex Newell, Arturo Sandoval, Rita Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Holly Hunter, Marc Shaiman and Darren Criss, among others.
The hour-long show streamed on YouTube — via Variety, Rolling Stone and the GRAMMYs’ official channels — also features special performances, including a musical number by Levi, LuPone, Newell, Yankovic, Peter Gallagher and Fierstein, and a song from “The Nightmare Before Christmas...
- 6/25/2020
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
June 25 at noon Pt, members of the music for screens community — composers, songwriters, music editors, music supervisors, studio executives and others working at the intersection of music and visual media — will lend their talents to a benefit event for Covid-19 relief. “Soundtrack of Our Lives: A Celebration for the Film and TV Music Community” will raise money for MusiCares and feature appearances by Sting, Catherine O’Hara (pictured), “Weird Al” Yankovic, Elisabeth Moss, Anika Noni Rose, William Shatner, Auli’i Cravalho, John Stamos, Patti LuPone, Danny Elfman, Andra Day, Zachary Levi, Reba McEntire, Clive Davis, Hans Zimmer, Alan Menken, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Alex Newell, Arturo Sandoval, Rita Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Holly Hunter, Marc Shaiman and Darren Criss, among others.
The hour-long show will be streamed on YouTube — via Variety, Rolling Stone and the GRAMMYs‘ official channels — and will feature special performances including a musical number by Zachary Levi, Patti LuPone, Alex Newell, Yankovic,...
The hour-long show will be streamed on YouTube — via Variety, Rolling Stone and the GRAMMYs‘ official channels — and will feature special performances including a musical number by Zachary Levi, Patti LuPone, Alex Newell, Yankovic,...
- 6/16/2020
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
The shutdown of production was devastating to Los Angeles’ music community, just as it has been for every aspect of TV- and movie-making. But creative thinking is putting some studio musicians back to work.
John Acosta, president of Local 47 of the American Federation of Musicians, projects that lost wages due to the cancellation of live performances and studio recording dates could range from $2 million to $4 million, “just for the month of March.” Scuttled scoring dates amounted to half of that total, with last-minute cancellations of music for Fox’s “Family Guy,” Netflix’s “Umbrella Academy” and Peacock’s upcoming “Brave New World,” among others, prompting the Warner Bros., Sony and Fox scoring stages to close their doors within days of the city’s mandate that all nonessential businesses do so.
“Everything ground to a total standstill,” says composer Fil Eisler, who was gearing up to score the four remaining...
John Acosta, president of Local 47 of the American Federation of Musicians, projects that lost wages due to the cancellation of live performances and studio recording dates could range from $2 million to $4 million, “just for the month of March.” Scuttled scoring dates amounted to half of that total, with last-minute cancellations of music for Fox’s “Family Guy,” Netflix’s “Umbrella Academy” and Peacock’s upcoming “Brave New World,” among others, prompting the Warner Bros., Sony and Fox scoring stages to close their doors within days of the city’s mandate that all nonessential businesses do so.
“Everything ground to a total standstill,” says composer Fil Eisler, who was gearing up to score the four remaining...
- 4/2/2020
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Composer Hans Zimmer is seated at the mixing board at the Sony scoring stage, head bobbing to the music being performed by 107 musicians just a few yards away. He’s wearing a vintage “Lion King World Tour” T-shirt, frayed at the collar.
On the giant screen behind the orchestra, two lions are bounding across the African veldt. As the ensemble finishes playing cue 5M31, Hans tells conductor Nick Glennie-Smith, “I like the feel — one more time, from the beginning,” while Jon Favreau, director of this new, all-computer-imagery “Lion King,” says simply, “That was pretty cool, Hans.”
Twenty-four years ago, Zimmer won an Oscar for his score for the original animated version of “The Lion King.” Since then, he has written such influential scores as “Gladiator,” “The Dark Knight” and “Inception” — yet when Favreau asked him to re-create his music for Disney’s elaborate new version, and to supervise production of...
On the giant screen behind the orchestra, two lions are bounding across the African veldt. As the ensemble finishes playing cue 5M31, Hans tells conductor Nick Glennie-Smith, “I like the feel — one more time, from the beginning,” while Jon Favreau, director of this new, all-computer-imagery “Lion King,” says simply, “That was pretty cool, Hans.”
Twenty-four years ago, Zimmer won an Oscar for his score for the original animated version of “The Lion King.” Since then, he has written such influential scores as “Gladiator,” “The Dark Knight” and “Inception” — yet when Favreau asked him to re-create his music for Disney’s elaborate new version, and to supervise production of...
- 7/18/2019
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Peter Rotter is at the podium on the Warner Bros. scoring stage, about to conduct music for the season finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” “You really bring the humanity to a very intense show,” he tells his 27 string players.
Adds composer Adam Taylor: “It’s the triumph of the human spirit over the evil of Gilead.” He then dashes back into the booth to listen and offer direction to the musicians, who will play some 26 minutes of music for the episode, airing July 11 on Hulu.
Taylor sits at the mixing board watching the players, marking his score with a pencil and conferring with Rotter via intercom. “A candidate for quartet?” he asks after an initial run-through of one cue with a rich string sound. A delicate, more intimate ambience emerges with the next take, and both composer and conductor decide that’s the best approach for the scene.
“This season,...
Adds composer Adam Taylor: “It’s the triumph of the human spirit over the evil of Gilead.” He then dashes back into the booth to listen and offer direction to the musicians, who will play some 26 minutes of music for the episode, airing July 11 on Hulu.
Taylor sits at the mixing board watching the players, marking his score with a pencil and conferring with Rotter via intercom. “A candidate for quartet?” he asks after an initial run-through of one cue with a rich string sound. A delicate, more intimate ambience emerges with the next take, and both composer and conductor decide that’s the best approach for the scene.
“This season,...
- 7/11/2018
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
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The X-Files' latest episodes are out now on DVD and Blu-ray, with a fan-pleasing number of extras. Here's our review...
About 15 years ago, as DVDs were taking off, sales got a big boost when extra features started to appear on them on a regular basis. While some were happy to buy what was then an expensive machine and pricey disc for the sake of improved picture quality and better storage (among other things), for others, it was the lure of making-of features, deleted scenes (occasionally available on VHS cassettes from the period, but not often) and director’s commentaries – never available on VHS, for obvious reasons – that encouraged them to upgrade to the new format. For your humble correspondent, for example, it was the Extended Edition of The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, complete with four commentaries and two discs of extras, that was the reason for buying a DVD player.
As Blu-ray started to pull ahead of HD DVD in the next Battle of the New Formats, production companies started to try the same trick. Increasingly, all the good extras are reserved for the Blu-ray, in the hope of encouraging fans to upgrade once again, with DVDs often vanilla discs, or very nearly.
For some of us, though, this isn’t working. Having spent a fortune over the course of the Twenty-First Century so far replacing our old VHS collections with DVDs, many of us feel disinclined to repeated the process, especially considering Blu-ray offers the same advantages in terms of storage, accessible menus, etc. as DVDs, so the only reasons to upgrade are improved sound and picture quality and, if relevant, extras. Considering how many of us are now accessing movies and TV through streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Sky and moving away from hard copies all together, investing in a Blu-ray is not necessarily an enticing prospect. (This is, of course, not everyone’s view and I’m sure you’ll all tell me how fabulous Blu-ray is in the comments, and of course some games consoles do include Blu-ray players – but I don’t own one and nothing so far has convinced me it’s worth buying a separate player).
It’s always pleasant, then, to see a DVD release of new material that still offers a good selection of extra material, the sort of thing you can’t get from Netflix, on what is now the old-fashioned DVD format. The X-Files Event series is one such DVD box-set. Across three discs, it includes the series (obviously), three episode commentaries, two Making Of features, three other short featurettes, deleted scenes and a gag reel.
The series itself received what might kindly be referred to as a mixed reception, and you can see our reviews of individual episodes elsewhere on the site. To an extent, it benefits from a short binge-watch of all six episodes, as threads running across the season can be drawn out more easily; on the other hand, a certain amount of repetition designed to keep weekly viewers up to date becomes more noticeable. It also benefits from a re-watch, knowing what this new series is and how it plays out. Without the burden of years of expectation, it becomes easier to enjoy these episodes for what they are, rather than feeling disappointment that they are not what you might have expected them to be. The highlight of the series and the main reason to want your own permanent copy of the episodes, though, is certainly the Darin Morgan-scripted (and directed), Rhys Darby-starring Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster, which is a joy from start to finish.
There are episode commentaries on Episode 2, Founder’s Mutation (Chris Carter and episode writer/director James Wong), Episode 3, Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster (Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Darin Morgan and guest star Kumail Nanjiani) and Episode 6, My Struggle II (Chris Carter and producer Gabe Rotter). Carter and Wong, both in the same room, offer a nice chat on Founder’s Mutation including a discussion of its move in position from fifth episode to second. On Episode 3, Anderson and Duchovny are in a room together, and Morgan and Nanjiani are in a room together, so the commentary is essentially made up of two conversations spliced together, but both are entertaining and hearing Duchovny’s and Morgan’s views on their approach to Mulder’s character (something that also comes up in the Making Of features) can be quite revealing. Carter and Rotter are once again in the same room for their discussion of Episode 6, though this track is a bit less chatty than the others.
There are two Making Of features. The first, a 50-minute feature perhaps confusingly titled 43:45 after the standard length of an episode, focuses on the making of Episode 1, My Struggle, from initial table read to the end of shooting. The second, Season X (one hour and ten minutes), offers an overview of the making of all six episodes (including My Struggle). Both are thorough and offer some interesting insights through the usual combination of behind the scenes footage and talking heads. One particularly interesting feature of Season X is that it goes through the season in its original running order (i.e. My Struggle, Home Again, Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster, Babylon, Founder’s Mutation, My Struggle II), offering a sense of how the overall story arc would have developed across the season had the running order not been changed.
The other DVD features offer the usual smorgasbord of smaller offerings. The first deleted scene, a conspiracy scene from My Struggle, doesn’t really add much, but the other, an extended version of Mulder’s dance routine from Babylon, is quite fun. There’s a short film (Grace) written and directed by the series’ script co-ordinator Karen Nielsen, a gag reel, a ten-minute featurette written by and featuring Kumail Nanjiani choosing the most memorable monsters of the week from each season of the original run of The X-Files, and a two-minute featurette on environmental measures taken by the production.
It’s lovely to see a decent selection of features on a DVD release, and passionate fans of The X-Files will certainly find something to interest them here in the commentaries and Making Of features. With another new season expected in the future, it is also always handy to have X-Files episodes on DVD if you want to make a serious attempt to follow the mythology – though personally, we suspect we’ll just watch Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster a few more times instead.
The X-Files – The Event Series came out on DVD & Blu-Ray on the 13th of June.
Read our spoiler-filled episode reviews, Chris Carter interview and more on The X-Files, here.
DVD & Bluray TV The X-Files The X-Files Event Series David Duchovny Gillian Anderson Chris Carter Juliette Harrisson Review Juliette Harrisson 14 Jun 2016 - 06:00...
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The X-Files' latest episodes are out now on DVD and Blu-ray, with a fan-pleasing number of extras. Here's our review...
About 15 years ago, as DVDs were taking off, sales got a big boost when extra features started to appear on them on a regular basis. While some were happy to buy what was then an expensive machine and pricey disc for the sake of improved picture quality and better storage (among other things), for others, it was the lure of making-of features, deleted scenes (occasionally available on VHS cassettes from the period, but not often) and director’s commentaries – never available on VHS, for obvious reasons – that encouraged them to upgrade to the new format. For your humble correspondent, for example, it was the Extended Edition of The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, complete with four commentaries and two discs of extras, that was the reason for buying a DVD player.
As Blu-ray started to pull ahead of HD DVD in the next Battle of the New Formats, production companies started to try the same trick. Increasingly, all the good extras are reserved for the Blu-ray, in the hope of encouraging fans to upgrade once again, with DVDs often vanilla discs, or very nearly.
For some of us, though, this isn’t working. Having spent a fortune over the course of the Twenty-First Century so far replacing our old VHS collections with DVDs, many of us feel disinclined to repeated the process, especially considering Blu-ray offers the same advantages in terms of storage, accessible menus, etc. as DVDs, so the only reasons to upgrade are improved sound and picture quality and, if relevant, extras. Considering how many of us are now accessing movies and TV through streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Sky and moving away from hard copies all together, investing in a Blu-ray is not necessarily an enticing prospect. (This is, of course, not everyone’s view and I’m sure you’ll all tell me how fabulous Blu-ray is in the comments, and of course some games consoles do include Blu-ray players – but I don’t own one and nothing so far has convinced me it’s worth buying a separate player).
It’s always pleasant, then, to see a DVD release of new material that still offers a good selection of extra material, the sort of thing you can’t get from Netflix, on what is now the old-fashioned DVD format. The X-Files Event series is one such DVD box-set. Across three discs, it includes the series (obviously), three episode commentaries, two Making Of features, three other short featurettes, deleted scenes and a gag reel.
The series itself received what might kindly be referred to as a mixed reception, and you can see our reviews of individual episodes elsewhere on the site. To an extent, it benefits from a short binge-watch of all six episodes, as threads running across the season can be drawn out more easily; on the other hand, a certain amount of repetition designed to keep weekly viewers up to date becomes more noticeable. It also benefits from a re-watch, knowing what this new series is and how it plays out. Without the burden of years of expectation, it becomes easier to enjoy these episodes for what they are, rather than feeling disappointment that they are not what you might have expected them to be. The highlight of the series and the main reason to want your own permanent copy of the episodes, though, is certainly the Darin Morgan-scripted (and directed), Rhys Darby-starring Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster, which is a joy from start to finish.
There are episode commentaries on Episode 2, Founder’s Mutation (Chris Carter and episode writer/director James Wong), Episode 3, Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster (Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Darin Morgan and guest star Kumail Nanjiani) and Episode 6, My Struggle II (Chris Carter and producer Gabe Rotter). Carter and Wong, both in the same room, offer a nice chat on Founder’s Mutation including a discussion of its move in position from fifth episode to second. On Episode 3, Anderson and Duchovny are in a room together, and Morgan and Nanjiani are in a room together, so the commentary is essentially made up of two conversations spliced together, but both are entertaining and hearing Duchovny’s and Morgan’s views on their approach to Mulder’s character (something that also comes up in the Making Of features) can be quite revealing. Carter and Rotter are once again in the same room for their discussion of Episode 6, though this track is a bit less chatty than the others.
There are two Making Of features. The first, a 50-minute feature perhaps confusingly titled 43:45 after the standard length of an episode, focuses on the making of Episode 1, My Struggle, from initial table read to the end of shooting. The second, Season X (one hour and ten minutes), offers an overview of the making of all six episodes (including My Struggle). Both are thorough and offer some interesting insights through the usual combination of behind the scenes footage and talking heads. One particularly interesting feature of Season X is that it goes through the season in its original running order (i.e. My Struggle, Home Again, Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster, Babylon, Founder’s Mutation, My Struggle II), offering a sense of how the overall story arc would have developed across the season had the running order not been changed.
The other DVD features offer the usual smorgasbord of smaller offerings. The first deleted scene, a conspiracy scene from My Struggle, doesn’t really add much, but the other, an extended version of Mulder’s dance routine from Babylon, is quite fun. There’s a short film (Grace) written and directed by the series’ script co-ordinator Karen Nielsen, a gag reel, a ten-minute featurette written by and featuring Kumail Nanjiani choosing the most memorable monsters of the week from each season of the original run of The X-Files, and a two-minute featurette on environmental measures taken by the production.
It’s lovely to see a decent selection of features on a DVD release, and passionate fans of The X-Files will certainly find something to interest them here in the commentaries and Making Of features. With another new season expected in the future, it is also always handy to have X-Files episodes on DVD if you want to make a serious attempt to follow the mythology – though personally, we suspect we’ll just watch Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster a few more times instead.
The X-Files – The Event Series came out on DVD & Blu-Ray on the 13th of June.
Read our spoiler-filled episode reviews, Chris Carter interview and more on The X-Files, here.
DVD & Bluray TV The X-Files The X-Files Event Series David Duchovny Gillian Anderson Chris Carter Juliette Harrisson Review Juliette Harrisson 14 Jun 2016 - 06:00...
- 6/13/2016
- Den of Geek
The online BBC 3 proposal wants to ditch comedy & docs for "make you laugh" and "make you think" shows. So, comedy & docs then?
Amidst the proposals for how the online-only BBC Three could work after its planned autumn 2015 move from broadcast to on-demand is a neat bit of newspeak.
According to the following Tweet from @BBCNewsEnts: "The online @BBCThree will not commission genres like drama, docs and comedy. Shows will instead be branded "Make Me Think" & "Make Me Laugh".
Right.
Digging further into the proposal, the two laugh/think strands are explained as follows: "Make Me Think would be a mix of documentary, current affairs, news and drama [...] Make Me Laugh would be centred around scripted comedy, like Uncle or Gavin & Stacey, plus personality-led entertainment [...]".
So, er, that's comedy and documentary then, the key editorial pillars formerly known as genres.
The proposal, which is subject to approval by the BBC Trust,...
Amidst the proposals for how the online-only BBC Three could work after its planned autumn 2015 move from broadcast to on-demand is a neat bit of newspeak.
According to the following Tweet from @BBCNewsEnts: "The online @BBCThree will not commission genres like drama, docs and comedy. Shows will instead be branded "Make Me Think" & "Make Me Laugh".
Right.
Digging further into the proposal, the two laugh/think strands are explained as follows: "Make Me Think would be a mix of documentary, current affairs, news and drama [...] Make Me Laugh would be centred around scripted comedy, like Uncle or Gavin & Stacey, plus personality-led entertainment [...]".
So, er, that's comedy and documentary then, the key editorial pillars formerly known as genres.
The proposal, which is subject to approval by the BBC Trust,...
- 12/10/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Despite, by its very nature, being one of the more depressing series on television, The Walking Dead is also a massive hit. So it wasn’t shocking to learn last year that Us network AMC was planning a spin-off companion show. Now we know that Cliff Curtis will be the anchor for the new potential series.No, the company has not decided to mess with the format and opt for a hilarious zombie sitcom about a woman dealing with both the undead apocalypse and her slovenly, brain-craving husband called 'Oh, You Rotter!'. Instead the show, which doesn’t yet have an official title, but is codenamed Cobalt, focuses on a divorced teacher (Curtis), a good man trying to do right as civilisation crumbles around him.He’ll be joined in story by a yet-to-be-cast female guidance counsellor and her kids, who will be played by Frank Dillane and Alycia Debnam Carey.
- 12/5/2014
- EmpireOnline
Review Louisa Mellor 24 Mar 2013 - 23:00
In the Flesh continues its tale of small-town prejudice and undead guilt. Here’s Louisa’s review of episode two…
This review contains spoilers.
This week’s In the Flesh staged act two of Kieren Walker’s fraught homecoming by introducing a pair of new characters, a conflicted romance, and a redemptive mission. It was the episode in which the narrative gears proper began to turn, and In the Flesh demonstrated whether or not it had the mettle to outlive its three-part lifespan. Yes, is the answer to that, though it won’t necessarily be the supernatural premise that sees it through.
What floated to the surface of part two, past the Rotters and shotgun stuff, was a sensitive soap storyline about love. As soon as Kieren and Rick were together on screen, it was easy to ignore their partially dead status (something Rick...
In the Flesh continues its tale of small-town prejudice and undead guilt. Here’s Louisa’s review of episode two…
This review contains spoilers.
This week’s In the Flesh staged act two of Kieren Walker’s fraught homecoming by introducing a pair of new characters, a conflicted romance, and a redemptive mission. It was the episode in which the narrative gears proper began to turn, and In the Flesh demonstrated whether or not it had the mettle to outlive its three-part lifespan. Yes, is the answer to that, though it won’t necessarily be the supernatural premise that sees it through.
What floated to the surface of part two, past the Rotters and shotgun stuff, was a sensitive soap storyline about love. As soon as Kieren and Rick were together on screen, it was easy to ignore their partially dead status (something Rick...
- 3/24/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Review Louisa Mellor 17 Mar 2013 - 23:00
BBC Three’s new supernatural three-parter In The Flesh is clever, tense, and affecting. Here’s our review of episode 1…
This review contains spoilers. Read our spoiler-free version, here.
Like its heart-meltingly vulnerable lead Kieren (Luke Newberry), In the Flesh arrives home with no small amount of baggage. The ink on its commission contract was still wet when the first volley of “More zombies? Yawn” comments arrived on the bottom half of the internet, followed in quick succession by a round of “BBC Three? Meh” shrugs and a string of ungenerous speculative comparisons to other shows, films and comics about the dead, be they Walking or Shaun of.
Add to that the fact it was brought to life by a channel that chose not to resuscitate well-loved predecessor The Fades, and granted a timeslot that has it jumping into Being Human’s grave, and...
BBC Three’s new supernatural three-parter In The Flesh is clever, tense, and affecting. Here’s our review of episode 1…
This review contains spoilers. Read our spoiler-free version, here.
Like its heart-meltingly vulnerable lead Kieren (Luke Newberry), In the Flesh arrives home with no small amount of baggage. The ink on its commission contract was still wet when the first volley of “More zombies? Yawn” comments arrived on the bottom half of the internet, followed in quick succession by a round of “BBC Three? Meh” shrugs and a string of ungenerous speculative comparisons to other shows, films and comics about the dead, be they Walking or Shaun of.
Add to that the fact it was brought to life by a channel that chose not to resuscitate well-loved predecessor The Fades, and granted a timeslot that has it jumping into Being Human’s grave, and...
- 3/17/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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