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Magic City (2012)
Promising new "sopranos" with '60 style
Just like most new show the first episode was not overwhelming. It was hard to get used to the 60's and all the new characters. Personally, I didn't liked it so much but kept watching for Jeffrey Dean Morgan because of his phenomenal performance in Greys Anatomy. (Later on Jeffrey fades away and all the attention is on Steven Strait ;))
But back to Magic city: It's a lot like Sopranos, a guy who just wants to make a earning for his lovely family. Even if it means to kill sometime. It's a lot like Sopranos but it is not Sopranos. Why? Because it all takes place in the roaring 60's with Frank Sinatra, upcoming gambling and still a real class difference.
The first episodes aren't that great, aren't that bad. If you just want to have one hour fun, rent a movie. This series is really forming a plot from episode one to....? So with every episode the story gets better and better. It's got great potential to be the next great Sopranos.
One Day (2011)
What if....
Even weeks after watching it, the movie still gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when thinking about it.
It's the all-known love story with two people who are meant to be with each other but because of circumstances they end up with other lovers. This story by itself is beautiful but the movie is great because of the chosen circumstances spread over twenty years in combination with good actors.
Don't you ever think: "what if..?" ....I didn't reject that goofy boy and would now be married with the world best earning IT- specialist and also be a millionaire? .... I didn't get sick and went to that party so I could met this beautiful lady before my best friend met and marry her? .... I choose for the caring sweet quiet guy instead of the loud bad guy who later went cheating on me?
This movie is all about the "what if..." but especially for these two persons. In the course of twenty years you'll see lots of "what if.." moments. Everything is building up until the happy but tear dreading end.
This movie belongs next to the great love stories like The Notebook. A must-see love story
Private Practice (2007)
From awful to acceptable and now even good
The first season was a bad copy of Greys Anatomy. With my "love-(but mostly)-hate relation" with cheating Adisson it was hard to see that she got her own show. Still... while waiting for the new Greys anatomy it was good enough to kill time.
The plots/storyline was going SO slow that it was agonizing but... ...during the second and third season, something happened: The series was growing from a bad rip-off to a great show by it's own. The story is going faster with new characters and interesting patients.
My advice: Don't compare it with Greys anatomy. And in the end you will love it. You will love the intrigues, the hot men, hard decisions in love and the medical challenges which they alway conquer. By the way... the best season by now is the fifth.
Grimm (2011)
Not bad - not great
Cop is a descendant of the brothers Grimm (of the fairy tales) and can see the real nature of the monster which walk among us as normal people. So he hunts the bad ones down.
And that's it!
Okey, okey, this would be a very bad review with only three sentences so a bit more info: Ever episode he investigate a murder with... of course... a "monster". They vary from the traditional werewolf to giant wasps and fatal-attraction-frog-eaten-goats.
This series is almost the same as "lost girl" but not as great as "supernatural". Every time the investigator gets a lead to a monster and needs to hunt and mostly kill the beast. BUT... normally they also have a large storyline hanging above the small investigate-identify- hunt-kill episodes. In this series the large storyline is so thin that it's hard to suppress the irritation of all the clichés
Still, the character isn't bad looking so during the wait for the better stuff (True blood, Walking death) this is a nice way to kill time.