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jayes_musings) wrote2019-03-30 07:46 pm
jayes_musings) wrote2019-03-30 07:46 pm
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30 Days of TV Meme
Wow! It's been a while since I did this!
Day 10. A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
It's one of my favourite current shows. When I first saw it advertised I thought how stupid, how on earth will this ever work, and they really are taking the cop procedural/detective and civilian consultant genre too far now. Then I learnt it was basely, very loosely, on a graphic novel series which I admittedly hadn't read but I was familiar with and based on Neil Gaiman's characters. That still didn't convince me this would be a good basis for a TV show. Then I found out that Tom Ellis played the lead.
Oh...hello! I might just have to give this a look, just for the eye candy as I loved him as Gary in "Miranda" (but then I love "Miranda" and Miranda Hart and it might just have been her comedy that made him appealing).
So, somewhere in the midst of Season 1, I watched my first episode and...I was hooked! Nope still not a huge fan of cop procedurals, but the Celestial elements just tick all my ticky boxes so I can put the procedural part aside for the most part. Not only is Tom Ellis perfect as Lucifer, and still shows what great comic timing he has, and is as sexy as Hell. But from the first time I saw Mazikeen, I was in love, not only is Lesley-Ann Brandt incredibly beautiful and sexy, she plays Maze brilliantly. In fact, the entire cast work so well together. The only weak spot is Chloe Decker, which is a shame as Lauren German is a very talented actor with a great sense of humour, but Chloe is the 'straight foil' for Lucifer's shenanigans, but it makes her mostly a dull character.
Season 3 was definitely the low point of the series as many of the celestial/supernatural aspects were put aside for 'murder of the week' and with the writers giving Lucifer and Maze different personalities each week, depending on that week's theme -- as well as the awful 'love triangle' between Lucifer, Chloe, and Pierce/Cain, and I don't even ship Lucifer and Chloe, but it was just so contrived. Hopefully with Netflix picking up Season 4 things will improve now that the showrunners won't be as tied to the procedural side of things.
Day 10. A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
It's one of my favourite current shows. When I first saw it advertised I thought how stupid, how on earth will this ever work, and they really are taking the cop procedural/detective and civilian consultant genre too far now. Then I learnt it was basely, very loosely, on a graphic novel series which I admittedly hadn't read but I was familiar with and based on Neil Gaiman's characters. That still didn't convince me this would be a good basis for a TV show. Then I found out that Tom Ellis played the lead.
Oh...hello! I might just have to give this a look, just for the eye candy as I loved him as Gary in "Miranda" (but then I love "Miranda" and Miranda Hart and it might just have been her comedy that made him appealing).
So, somewhere in the midst of Season 1, I watched my first episode and...I was hooked! Nope still not a huge fan of cop procedurals, but the Celestial elements just tick all my ticky boxes so I can put the procedural part aside for the most part. Not only is Tom Ellis perfect as Lucifer, and still shows what great comic timing he has, and is as sexy as Hell. But from the first time I saw Mazikeen, I was in love, not only is Lesley-Ann Brandt incredibly beautiful and sexy, she plays Maze brilliantly. In fact, the entire cast work so well together. The only weak spot is Chloe Decker, which is a shame as Lauren German is a very talented actor with a great sense of humour, but Chloe is the 'straight foil' for Lucifer's shenanigans, but it makes her mostly a dull character.
Season 3 was definitely the low point of the series as many of the celestial/supernatural aspects were put aside for 'murder of the week' and with the writers giving Lucifer and Maze different personalities each week, depending on that week's theme -- as well as the awful 'love triangle' between Lucifer, Chloe, and Pierce/Cain, and I don't even ship Lucifer and Chloe, but it was just so contrived. Hopefully with Netflix picking up Season 4 things will improve now that the showrunners won't be as tied to the procedural side of things.