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Limitless

Mentalist

Mentalist

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Remember the film. It was pretty good. Nothing spectacular but offbeat and interesting. I liked it so was ready to give the TV show a go. Pretty standard procedural format to begin with but still slightly above average. 15 episodes in now and it might be my favourite thing on television. They have fully embraced a madcap, almost Community-esque vibe to the show while still keeping a pretty tense backstory going. They are playing with all sorts of tropes week to week and going fully surreal at times. It's bloody good.

Jake McDorman is top notch in the lead as Brian. Jen Carpenter and the other FBI are all great as well. I have such a confused crush on Carpenter. I can never decide is she's super hot, weird looking or both.

Anyway, I digress...

Show is good. Yes. It doesn't always hit but when it does it's doing it really well. I'm not sure how it's doing ratings wise but I don't think there is much buzz around it at the moment. I am really hoping it gets a second season at the very least.


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Tuesday night's Limitless will be a doozy for Eddie Morra's deadly representative Mr. Sands (Colin Salmon), as we finally learn the truth about his dangerous past. But as Sands tells Brian Finch (Jake McDorman) his story, Brian's NZT-fueled brain cooks up a heightened version of the tale, with each new facet of it shown in comic book panels -- and IGN has exclusive preview images of illustrations by comic book artist Annie Wu (Hawkeye, Black Canary).
Original drawings were commissioned for the episode from famed comic artists Wu, Robbi Rodriguez (Spider-Gwen), Babs Tarr (Batgirl), Andrew Robinson (Dusty Star), Joe Suitor (Spider-Man: Fear Itself), Mark Bright (Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn) and Nick Pitarra (The Manhattan Projects).
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Next weeks episode is now typical of how the show keeps pushing new ideas way beyond the "case of the week" procedural dross that is EVERYWHERE.

So yeah... if you haven't given it a chance do so. It's starts off pretty standard but doesn't take long at all to get gud.

[video=youtube;2zqTRHehBLw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zqTRHehBLw[/video]


Oh, and hi! I'm back and stuff. :fish2:
 
It didn't look terribly interesting in the adverts for it. But if it has a "Community-esque vibe", I may have to give it a shot.
 
I didn't even know it was a thing until the AV Club reveiwed an episode a few days ago and were raving about it, but then I saw that it already had fifteen episodes and that's a lot to catch up on...I haven't seen the movie either but I imagine that isn't essential. Jennifer Carpenter was always great in Dexter even when it went to total shit. And I like Colin Salmon!

OH YEAH AND HI MENTALIST WELCOME BACK PLEASE KEEP POSTING WE CAN TALK ABOUT TV SHOWS AND STUFF AND I'LL RECONCILE YOU AND TOMTREK AFTER YEARS OF EAST COAST/WEST COAST WARRING.
 
This ep looks like it may be awesome, but I haven't watched the show because the premise didn't thrill me (a guy takes a magic pill and becomes super-smart and helps fight crime!). Can a super-slick I Dream of Jeannie reboot be far behind?

I'm also quite over "post-apocalyptic" shows. I know Limitless isn't one, but I just thought I'd throw that out there. There must be 139 of them on TV at this point. And half of them have a zombie problem. Enough already.
 
Well... episode came and gone... Best one of the season. Barnstormer. This show is the shit. Legit. It's already been pinging excellent episodes since around 1x07 and last week's spy thriller was fun as fuck but this was a tour de force. Nah... you have to be watching it if you're in to genre telly. It's boss. This is the most fun I've had with a 45 minute show since the big hitters stopped. Well worth catching up.
 
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