I thought Michael Imperioli was great in The Sopranos so I'm going to give this show a chance.
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I thought Michael Imperioli was great in The Sopranos so I'm going to give this show a chance.
Show was alright. On a scale of 1 to 10 I give it a 7. The ending was not realistic. Trying to make Fitch out to be a reckless cowboy. The end lost some steam. The scenery had a lot of Detroit. Some not. The acting was better than I thought it would be. It will take better scripts to make it a hit. Otherwise it will be cancelled.
I'm new to this forum, decided to jump in on this thread. I agree with many who feel that the pilot left a lot to be desired. I plan to continue watching & hope for improvement. NYPD Blue was a favorite. I really liked the Boardwalk Empire pilot & look forward to watching more of it.
About me, I was born in Detroit [[Mt Carmel) lived on the west side, Quincy St. then Evergreen Ave. off W. Chicago. I have family in White Lake, Linden, & Grand Rapids, all formerly from Detroit. I have been away for a while, now in Seattle. [[Anyone else?) I might be coming back someday. I enjoy this forum & Lowell's photos.
Welcome to the forum, mittengal!
"One More Spoke" on the subject: http://onemorespoke.blogspot.com/201...n-detroit.html
I enjoyed that. And the blog as a whole.
Among other things, how's this for making lemons out of lemonade:
Should I end up living carless in downtown, I may end up getting my lettuce from CVS, sure, but at least there won't be a GAP store in sight!Quote:
After all, isn't that the bright side of our poor reputation, the fact that Detroit is the last place in this country to be homogenized?
I was afraid PC would ruin the show [[and it probably will) but the 1st episode was OK. I especially liked the "searching for a bullet casing on the bridge" scene which was actually filmed in Atlanta. You can see Atlanta's BOA tower in the background. The Detroit scenes seemed to have either an I-75 or I-94 sign conveniently placed in the scene.
They show featured a Black Keys tune that's only about six months old. Just sounds like it's 30 years old.
Show was OK, attempts at humor, which should improve, was a bit different.
The scene where he doesn't talk to the guy in the interrogation room annoyed me.
I agree with many others that the show will get better.
Thanks, ljbad89!
If they are shooting in Atlanta at least do some shots of a buildinghttp://skyscraperpage.com/graphics/dotclear.gif that looks like The Ren Cen.
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Should be the Westin. Built the same year, almost the same height and almost exactly the same without the surrounding building that Ren-Cen has.
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Someone earlier in this thread said they were shooting in Atlanta PRIOR to the show becoming a show about Detroit. They didn't know where it was going to be set, so why the hell SHOULD they add scenes about Detroit?
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tallbay66 and jcole,
The show was about Detroit since the inception and from the beginning of storyline writing. However, the pilot [[the first episode) was filmed in winter before. The scenes were not to take place in the winter. Therefore, the production team had the challenge of searching for a southern location that most resembled Detroit [[without snow on the ground)--hence, Atlanta. That being said, at least, a good 30-40% of the pilot was shot/re-shot in Detroit this summer. I was one of the actors. All episodes after last weeks premiere have been/will be shot in their entirety in Detroit or surrounding areas. I have some inside scoop, because I have worked on the show as a background actor.
I hope this show does well in other markets and is not just a homer show.
Michael Imperioli's take on his character Louis Fitch could be used to describe a lot of Detroiters [[though Fitch is a transplant from NY):
"I think he’s happy when he’s working, and he loves his work and he’s very committed and very dedicated. He really believes in what he’s doing, and is very good at it and proud of what he does, and he gets absorbed by it. I think there’s some emotional damage resulting from something that happened in the past, in his personal life. But it seems like he hasn’t found peace. I mean, he has it when he’s working, but that’s not really enough, you know. From what I’ve gathered so far, his life really exists when he’s working. When he’s not working he’s waiting to go back to work."
http://www.tv.com/michael-imperioli-...ory/24095.html
Second episode tonight. I'll check it out but the pilot was a bummer for me, wooden acting,weak plot,characters not really too interesting.
I'll give 'em another chance or two...
lilpup quoted:
>>.Louis Fitch ... But it seems like he hasn’t found peace. I mean, he has it when he’s working, but that’s not really enough, you know.
No peace until he gets into the pants of the Latino detective. We can all smoke a cigarette then.
I am watching a new episode right now. No thunderstorm but at least the hospital scenes were filmed in the Detroit Recieving Hospital.
And it showed that a man died on the Princess near Hart Plaza.
Couple of things:
I see they got the dude that played Fruit on The Wire as the victim's brother. All we need for Marlo, Chris and Snoop to come rolling into town...LOL
They filmed inside the club I knew as Legend's back in the day. I know it has had many names but it will always be Legend's. Until tonight I haven't seen the inside of that club since the late 90's. Is it still closed? I know someone wanted to turn it into a strip club.
It was good tonight. I enjoyed it a lot more than last week. I think Det. Washington is going to be a big part of the show.
Greatly improved in every way
- better script and acting
- better storyline
- better quality - you can tell ABC was fully funding this episode
- clearly in Detroit.
Lets hope there werent too many ppl that wrote off the show after the pilot, because I think it definitely has potential now
Decent show tonight. The Polish wedding on the boat was realistic. They are trying to make Fitch out to be kind of an Andy Sipowitz from NYPD Blue, but making him a little more likable early in the series. I can't remember, senior moment, do we have a Mckinley High?