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Revenge - this soap is winding up nicely. Some decent twists and turns.
Also Victory Grayson has managed to create her own perfect enemy in Emily Thorne.
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Ringer - well, at least someone knows that Siobhan and Bridget changed places. Took the show long enough. Any other show on TV? They'd have figured it out by November. The pacing on Ringer is abysmal. And they spend far too much time dropping red herrings and false leads. Watching it after Revenge...probably wasn't fair. That said, this week's episode was more interesting than last week's and at least propelled the action forward. The actor playing Malcolm Ward must be on vacation or something, she leaves him messages but we never see him.
( Spoilers for Ringer )3.
The River - this is the new horror/adventure serial by Spielberg and company on ABC. It reminds me oddly of the film Event Horizon...where a rescue team goes to a spaceship on the far reaches of Space to try to find survivors and ends finding a lot more than they bargained for. The Spaceship entitled The Event Horizon found a way to leap into Hell and back. It's a psychological thriller. The entire film is a mystery - what happened to the crew, why are there no survivors, why are the survivors insane, and where did The Event Horizon go. The River also reminds me a lot of Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity...the new trend in horror - found footage and shaky handheld cameras.
The problem with The River is that the characters aren't that interesting. I suppose they could become interesting with time. But right now they like standard stock characters and I can see their emotional journeys and plot threads, a mile away. I more or less can guess what will happen, who will die and who won't. Also that each week we'll put a major character in jeopardy, only to save them.
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