Brimstone....

[fajrdrako]

I watched the pilot episode of Brimstone again yesterday.

My goodness I love that show. It's got a nice style - somewhere between Homicide: Life on the Streets and Buffy and Milton, all swirled together like ice cream.

Better, the Pilot has two of my favourite actors of all time in it: Peter Woodward and John Glover. Both those men really float my boat.

Does anyone else remember the Nick Mancuso TV show Matrix? I don't remember quite clearly enough to be sure of the details, but Brimstone is almost exactly the same premise, except in Matrix the protagonist didn't kill in revenge for the rape of his wife - he was a professional hit man. And, yeah, I just looked, according to IMDb, Carrie-Anne Moss was in it too. How cool: starting a career of being in shows called Matrix. I hadn't even known she was Canadian.

Matrix didn't have John Glover, but you can't have everything. It did have Nick Mancuso. Trade-off.

Another cool connection: I sort-of know the woman who wrote that review on Matrix there on IMDb. A friend of friends. Small world.

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[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

You wrote:
I watched the pilot episode of Brimstone again yesterday. My goodness I love that show. It's got a nice style - somewhere between Homicide: Life on the Streets and Buffy and Milton, all swirled together like ice cream.

Another fan of that show here! Good description! What a nearly perfect pilot... I was disappointed that they moved the show out of NYC and over to California (to what city? Do they ever bother to name it?) after the pilot. The show lost a lot of its gritty Gotham City qualities after that. Though I must admit it was fun seeing Stone blinking up into the sunlight, SO not enjoying it like the Manhattan mushroom he was, huddled into his coat. I suppose the demons who survived the pilot wanted a warmer climate after escaping into Manhattan. Which explains Sunnydale.

Now I must see this Matrix of which you speak.

Carrie-Anne Moss was also on Due South, as Ray V's girlfriend in "Juliette is Bleeding." That show pretty much cast Canadian 99.999% of the time.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Another fan of that show here!

Hey, there's a whole bunch of us! this is cool.

The show lost a lot of its gritty Gotham City qualities after that.

Pity. You know, I felt the same when X-Files moved from grey, damp Vancouver to sunny, bright California. It just wasn't the same.


Carrie-Anne Moss was also on Due South

My goodness - yes! I'd entirely forgotten about that. Thanks for reminding me.