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Originally Posted by Hitch
Hey, if the goal is to hang with Xena, you're right. :-) I just...IDK, I watched the first few opening minutes and it's that endlessly tired "Oh, we need you back to do this or that, even though you eschew it now" because the character was SO GREAT...it's just exhausting because it's trite. It's TV shorthand for telling not showing and for crying out loud, they should be better at it now, after 70 damn years of nearly full-time storytelling.
If there's someone here who really likes it, I apologize; this is all personal taste.
It's like all this other now-TV-trope stuff; when was the LAST time that you saw a Brit detective show wehre every single person in charge was NOT a woman? The detective is a woman. The detective's immediat bos is a woman, and her boss is a woman...the CSIs are women, the coroner is a woman..it's like the entire island has moved to DC's Paradise Island. I mean, I get it, they're trying to be hip and all that, but COME ON...
Hitch
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No need to apologize - my taste in TV shows is offbeat to say the least. But I do have to say that a lot of those women playing the leads in British shows are pretty good (and not just there for their looks!). OTOH I absolutely despised Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect - sleeping and drinking her way to the top with that insipid toss of her hair every 30 seconds - ugh. But I like the women in Happy Valley, Scott & Baily, Miss Fisher, Marcella, The Fall, Hidden, Winter, WPC-56 to name a few.