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13 January 2008

'Day Break'(2006) TV-Show Review

What if you will live your worst nightmare and what if you'll get trapped in that nightmare? Detective Brett Hopper(Taye Diggs) from Narcotics Division of Los Angeles Police Department, is accused for killing of state attorney Alberto Garza, being captured by the police he tries to explain that he's being framed. Next day when he wakes up he realizes that it's the same day over and over again. Brett discovers that the events that day change only if his actions change. In order to save his friends from getting killed and searching for evidence to prove his innocence Brett figures that he wasn't a good brother/partner/friend for those around him. Each day he knows it will be the same, but he doesn't know if he will wake to live tomorrow or it will live today forever. Each 'today' Brett discovers more dark secrets about people around him and in his run from the police, he receives help from his partner Detective Andrea Battle(Victoria Pratt), from Damien Ortiz(Ramon Rodriguez) his informant and from other people close to him.

'Day Break' it's a nice TV-Show, each episode will bring something new into Brett Hopper's life, in each episode Brett will try to fight against those who are framing him and who proved to be people without any hold-backs and very resourceful.

Day Break - Every Day Is Exactly The Same(music by Nine Inch Nails)



- more info about 'Day Break' on imdb.com
- more info about 'Day Break' on tv.com

08 January 2008

'The Pretender'(1996) TV-Show

"There are pretenders among us. Geniuses with the ability to be become anyone they want to be. In 1963, a corporation known as the Centre isolated a young pretender named Jarod and exploited his genius for their research. Then, one day, their pretender ran away..."
This is how the story begins, with Jarod(Michael T. Weiss), a genius-boy abducted by 'The Centre' in order to perform simulations, that 'The Centre' sold to the ones with enough money to buy them, in order to kill/steal/destroy.
When Jarod finds out about the purpose of his simulations, he decides to run away from 'The Centre' and help others. His primary objective is finding his lost family, that he thought dead. Trying to run away from the tracking team conduced by Miss Parker(Andrea Parker) and the one that once was his mentor, Sydney(Patrick Bauchau), Jarod reveals the most hidden secrets of 'The Centre'.
Finding bits of information about his past, and members of his family, then losing them one by one Jarod is constantly on the run. Punishing the ones that deserve it, Jarod is more like a modern action hero, always with a step before everybody else he proves that he really is a genius. Story becomes complicated with each episode and for about 4 seasons Jarod is fighting the evil and 'The Centre' helping he will get reunited someday with his family. Although at the end of those 4 seasons things are unsure about what happened with Jarod, there are four more episodes from the miniseries "The Island of the Haunted" who try to reveal the secrets left unsolved in those 4 seasons of Jarod.
-more informations about 'The Pretender' TV-Show on tv.com
The way one of the seasons end:

02 January 2008

'Dexter'(TV-Show) Review

His name is Dexter Morgan(Michael C. Hall) and his is the "hero" of the TV-Show 'Dexter'. I have to warn you, this is a movie with lot of blood. Dexter is a forensics expert with the specialty blood's pattern. As the first sight Dexter seems to be a normal person, too normal, spending time with his girlfriend Rita(Julie Benz), his co-workers and his sister Debra Morgan(Jennifer Carpenter), a young police officer recently transfered to Homicide Department. With so many people around him you could say that Dexter doesn't have time for anything else. But Dexter has a secret, when the night falls he brings justice to those who escaped justice. His own justice. Following 'Harry's Code' Dexter avoids random kills, and he only kills when he is convinced of the guilt of his victim. Dexter thinks that his thirst for blood comes when his childhood, when he witnessed the killing of his mother. Following the 'Code' and faking his feelings Dexter manages to stay invisible to the rest of the people, except for Sergeant James Doakes(Erik King) who believes that Dexter is hiding something. On each episode for two seasons Dexter discovers more about himself, about his pass. Some thinks that Dexter is a 'monster'(including himself) while other see him as a hero, doing the justice that the police couldn't do, killing the criminals. At the first I was skeptical, but after watching two episodes I was convinced, watching Dexter was a priority among TV-Shows from my list.

For more informations about the TV-Show I recommend:
-tv.com(episode list, trailers);
-Dexter's page on Showtime site;

'Dexter: Morning Routine'

14 December 2007

'John Doe' (TV-Show) Review

The story of "John Doe"(played by Dominic Purcell which you know from Prison Break - a review of that TV Show will came later - and Blade Trinity) begins when John wakes up on an isolated island and he realize that he has knowledge about "anything in the world"(literally speaking) but he don't know one thing: "Who is he?".

Using his talent John Doe starts making money and enjoying the life in Seattle. Until one day as he watches a news report about a kidnapped girl, John Doe realizes that he is seeing the child in color(John is color-blind), thinking that the girl might have something to do with his unknown life he decides to help the police with the investigation. This is the start of beautiful collaboration between John Doe and the police force. While solving the impossible cases and saving people to life John Doe finds time to search for his past, posting ads on the internet asking if anyone knows anything about him. John plays in Digger's bar each night and the two of them become friends.

While searching for his life, not knowing if he was kidnapped by aliens who erased his memories, or if he is a product of a special research made by a secret organization, John Doe finds that "The Phoenix Order" is trying to capture him. As he is being chased by "The Pheonix Order" some branch of government is offering the help to John Doe, no knowing who to trust John refuses the help continuing his fight against "The Phoenix Order". His only two friends are detective Frank Hayes and lieutenant Jamie Avery, Karen Kawalski and Digger.

The only bad part is that "John Doe" TV-Show has only one season, because he was left unfinished, but I'm sure that there is a lot of people who want to see the end of the the show and to find out if John ever finds his family. There is also a petition so the show will continue. 26206 people already signed that petition, I hope FOX will decide to continue John Doe.