Just when I thought the leak season was over, two new pre-airs have showed up.
The Mentalist is about a mentalist (what else?) turned private eye and is created and written by Bruno Heller who wrote Rome.
East Bound and Down is about a pro-baseball player who returns to his hometown to teach phys ed. This one is from Ben Best and Jody Hill.
Also new in torrent land is the first episode of BBC’s Bone Kickers about a team of archaelogists. The series is from Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah who wrote and created Life on Mars.
I haven’t seen any of these yet. If you have, let me know what you think.
Blogette
I plan on watching both “The Mentalist” and “East Bound and Down” later tonight. “The Mentalist” has been getting “Psych” comparisons for a while now – I can’t wait to see just how similar they are (or aren’t).
Callaghan
Just a quick note for anyone doing a search for Bonekickers: it’s all one word, with no space in between bone and kickers.
Backson
‘Bonekickers’ is just horrible. It’s full of cliché, it has bad dialogue, bad acting, lame action, stereotype characters and is just not worth watching.
Avoid it. Seriously.
Blogette
I really liked “East Bound and Down.” It kind of reminded me of “Miss Guided” – only with more profanity and nudity. It was just so outrageous it was funny. I find myself already wanting to quote a lot of the lines in public, but I fear the strange looks I would get from people.
“The Mentalist” – I’m kind of torn. I like the actors, and I like the serial killer story arc, but I’m not sure about this one. I couldn’t really suspend my disbelief with this one, and I think that’s being able to is necessary for watching this. I’m also not much of a procedural (or CBS) girl so that could be my problem.
admin
I heard from someone else today that EB&D is good and original. I can’t wait to watch.
OutOfContext
Man, did I dislike East Bound and Down. I have nothing against ‘outrageous’, but I like human beings doing outrageous things. This was written by aliens and translated by some intergalactic version of Babelfish into English, then polished by a fifteen-year old with Tourette’s Syndrome.
It made me sad.
Fortunately, the Mentalist was very funny.