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Tag Archives: Ian McShane

Catching up: Reaper, Kings, Harper’s Island

I’ve fallen rather behind both in my television viewing and in my blogging, so I thought I’d catch up with a few things today, seeing as I don’t have access to HBO this weekend and can’t watch True Blood until tomorrow, at the earliest.

First up: Reaper.
I did so love this show.
I’ve said about 8 gazillion [...]

Kings & Jericho: More in common than the Biblical references

I was chatting with a friend on Twitter yesterday about the crime that is the all-but-certain cancellation of Kings.

I first met Dan during the (partly successful) fan uprising to keep Jericho on the air.
For those of  you unfamiliar with the late, lamented CBS show, here’s the basics in a nutshell:
A tale of a small Kansas [...]

Kings: A prince among paupers

When I first heard the premise for Kings – a modern-day interpretation of the David v. Goliath tale from that old chestnut, The Bible – I was intrigued.
I love it, frankly, when there’s a modern-day take on a classic tale – biblical or not.

One could argue, of course, that almost everything is a modern-day take [...]