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[gategrrl]

I *finally* watched "Provenance" two nights ago when I couldn't get to sleep. Oh what a night - two episodes of "Medium", half of a "Crossing Jordan" and SPN's "Provenance" (that's the one with the creepy family painting in it and the people getting their necks slashed open) and I finally got to sleep at four in the morning!

So - the episode! Wasn't nearly as scary as I thought it would be, really. I didn't like the brunette barbiedoll they had playing the deep cleavaged daughter of the auction-house dealer. I was kinda hoping the dealer and her *would* get their throats slashed, but it was not meant to be. Dean was also not quite the same character I thought he was (I'd seen an episode that took place in an abandoned asylum - much better ep than this one). He's such a guy-ho! I didn't know that! And that 70's wacka-wacka-hotel room? Do they check into weird rooms like that every episode? And have they ever checked into a haunted/demon infested hotel room without knowing it?

I thought the mystery was kinda shallow. If I hadn't known who the killer was, would I have guessed? I have no idea. But I would have appreciated more lore, like in Buffy, where there'd be a *reason* for the haunting human-demon thingy to BE there, other than to cause havok-and-death-by-nasty-means (TM).

I like the look of this show - the producers certainly love the bleached blue-black end of the color spectrum a whole lot. It fits.

Comments

[agentotter.livejournal.com]

I like the sound of this "Provenance."

Also, I don't watch "Medium" because that Arquette drives me a little nuts and I don't think she's terribly well-written, but the guy who plays her husband, Jake Weber? He's my TV boyfriend from way back. You should rent Wendigo, which has him in it and is awesome. ;)

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

I really hadn't noticed that Arquette's character isn't so well written, honestly, mostly because I find that overall, that show has a WONDERFUL family dynamic in it, with the husband's lines cracking me (and *my* husband) up without fail. They get the dad-itude perfectly, and I love the child-actors and their characters. I find that (so far) Medium is more consistently written than The Dead Zone, which I loved in its first two seasons, before Michael Pillar left it because of cancer illness. He died, and his death is a real loss to quality television. :-(

Wendigo, eh? Is that a horror film? It sounds familiar somehow.

[agentotter.livejournal.com]

Well, I think I just have a small annoyance with Arquette, too. So that's probably coloring my judgement of the character, that I'm not real crazy about that actress. I just remember in the episodes I watched (which were the first two or three, I think), she came off as almost too aggressive and defensive about things... like she'd snap at people and I'd just be thinking how totally lame and unprovoked it was. But who knows? Maybe I was just in a bad mood while watching, too. Might give it another chance one day, if for no other reason than to oogle Jake Weber.

Wendigo is... you'd probably find it in the horror section, and the video box has a VERY horror-y cover art which is incredibly misleading. It's a psychological horror film, if anything, but if you're into the family thing I think you'd really like it... I mean, it's not a family film by any means (I found it pretty scary, and there's some violence), but Weber's character is a dad who's taking his wife and son to a borrowed cabin for awhile and I think the best thing about the film is that the interaction between the husband and wife characters is so great. It's like an actual relationship, which I rarely if ever see in film.