Jeff Beal who did the music is from Castro Valley, here in the Bay Area and went to school with my niece and nephews (who are also musicians). He's done a number of film and TV scores throughout the years. I saw the British version years ago when it played on Masterpiece Theater.
On 02/10/2013 06:09 AM, Susan wrote: > I just finished last night. You are right - they avoid the plot manipulation > (creating a cliff-hanger at the end of each episode). The story flows. > Really nice. the theme music is very nice, altho I got tired of the long > intros. I have Netflixed the original British version, which I am told is > darker. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: >>> On 02/09/2013 07:25 AM, turquoiseb wrote: >>>> Well, I finished watching this series today... >>> You are more of a TV junkie than I am then. >> Possibly, but I also had a short work week last week, >> and thus was able to devote 9.75 hours (shorter, really, >> because I could fast-forward through the repeating >> opening sequences) to watching a novel. >> >> That's definitely how the writer thought of it, given >> the amount of artistic freedom (total, not one critical >> comment or "suggestion" from Netflix during the entire >> production) he had, and given Netflix's decision to make >> all episodes available on the viewer's time schedule. >> They didn't have to invent cliff-hanger endings to get >> people to "tune in next week." >> >>> I'm about halfway through but a little disappointed that >>> so far we haven't seen much of the real problem in politics >>> and that's big corporations. Even Frank would have to kowtow >>> to them or lose his office. Other political analysts have >>> mentioned the same thing about the series. >> Oh, that's definitely there, or did you (and these >> "analysts" miss the stuff about Sancorp? It gets more >> pronounced towards the end. >> >>> BTW, I found a way to watch episodes of "Utopia". I would >>> think the only outlet for this in the US would be streaming >>> on Netflix. The accents are too strong for most Americans >>> to understand. >> Not only that. American TV producers are never going >> to go for a series that proposes a giant underground >> organization willing to create diseases that target >> only specific races. They should have heard the guys >> from Los Alamos talking about the research they were >> doing to do exactly that. :-) >> >>> But I hope that a watered down remake for the US doesn't >>> keep the original version out of the US market. I like >>> the cinematography in it which is probably another problem >>> for dumbed down 'mericans who don't like "black bars". It's >>> presented in "scope" so there are "black bars" on a 16:9 >>> screen. I understand that "House of Cards" has a 2:1 ratio >>> (slightly scope) but probably due to overscan on my old HD >>> set I don't see the "black bars." >> I seriously doubt that most Americans are bright enough >> to even notice the aspect ratios, except for old movies >> shown on TNT. :-) >> > >
