bhairitu, that "Now, now" made me smile. Makes me realize how fun and funny
language is, how 2 little words can convey a nuanced tone.
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From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2013 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Borgen, season 3
On 09/01/2013 03:25 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
>To get the bad taste out of my eyes from watching a couple of episodes
>of the US version of "The Bridge," I decided to watch the
new season of
>"Borgen." What a difference.
>
Now, now, I watched the first episode of Broen. I don't understand
why you didn't like the US remake. After all it's by the same
writers and producers and done with a better budget. The storyline
was pretty much the same but adapted to the US/Mexican border. I
don't think Americans would have found a show about the the
Denmark/Swedish border to be all that compelling. Then they were
able to bring the Mexican drug lord element in and the coyote
element as well.
I think it is just your "Amercans sucks, Europe good" meme you often
expound on here. Of course you know I get that. Hell, when the
first day of my TTC in France I looked around and thought "you
idiot! You're going be cooped up in a hotel for six months when you
should be traveling around seeing Europe!" I did intend to get back
and do exactly that but so far that was limited to a stopover in
Amsterdam to and from India.
Of course the Swedish actress is sexier and Unger chose to play the
role about bit more wallflower which sells the Aspergers a little
better.
OTOH "Crossing Lines", a European production which played on NBC
this summer did respectively. Yup, some scenes had subtitles too.
This may be the odd difference between Comcast running NBC and GE
which ran it.
After watching the first episode of Broen, which looked like someone
captured it off a DVR on the composite output. I watched a DVD
rental "Evidence" with Steven Moyer and Radha Mitchell. Probably no
interest to you and not to much of FFL but it was found footage
horror flick with the spin being that Moyer is a forensic video
analyst.
After that I tried to start a popular title on Netflix and stopped
it as soon as it began rebuffering. So chose a Netflix recommended
title "Abduction of Eden" which was excellent. I had intended just
to watch about a half hour but finished the whole film. It's based
on an true story about a girl who was abducted and forced into
prostitution in the Las Vegas area. I think we'll be seeing more
from the young actor Matt O'Leary who did a bang up job on his role
as her handler. But I have to be a bit embarrassed as I assumed it
was shot in the Southwest. It was shot in Washington state in areas
I am familiar with. But eastern Washington doesn't look a whole lot
different in the desert areas than the Southwest. Just no
suguaros. :-D
>For those who have never seen the series, it's a drama set
in and around
>the buildings of the same name (meaning "citadel" or
"castle") which
>house the Danish government. The first two seasons dealt
with the rise
>to power of the (fictional) first woman Prime Minister of
the country,
>and with all of the shit she had to deal with on a daily
basis, both in
>political life and private life.
>
>And they were brilliant, in all of the ways that Danish TV
series are,
>and US series (on the whole) are not. It was a series
filled with nuance
>and subtlety and real characters with real-world problems.
It "pulled no
>punches" when dealing with the political pressures of
Danish politics
>(mainly centering on issues of immigration and
corruption), but it did
>so without histrionics, and without the posturing so
present in American
>"political" dramas. But what made the series so brilliant
was that it
>wasn't about politicians and News broadcasters, it was
about human
>beings who happened to be politicians and News
broadcasters.
>
>These people aren't different from anyone else, and
"Borgen" brought
>that to life on the TV screen. They have "issues," like
anyone else.
>They have problems at home, and with their romances, like
everyone else.
>And they make mistakes, just like everyone else.
>
>The main draw of the series, as with all of the shows
created by the DR
>production company there, is the strength of the actors
chosen to
>portray the roles, and the dialogue given to them to
portray. Season 3
>starts with the former Prime Minister having been voted
out of office a
>few years before, and wanting to return to politics, but
feeling
>betrayed by all of the compromises her former political
party has been
>making. So she starts another political party, one
dedicated to
>principle rather than expediency. It's really great so
far, so I highly
>recommend it to others who saw the former two seasons and
liked them.
>
>
