K-Ville: Good but not good enough
“I’m looking for a man covered in silver spray-paint. Have you see him?
I sat down this morning with the plan of working my way though all of the television I couldn’t get to earlier in the week. First up on the docket (I call my DVR, “Docket”) was last Monday’s K-Ville. As I mentioned in my review of the pilot K-Ville has a ton of potential. It also has Anthony Anderson, who I love. Sadly, the television schedule is just too tight and time needs to cut wherever it can. For me, K-Ville just isn’t interesting enough to warrant a permanent spot in my Monday rotation. Too much cop-show, not enough New Orleans. More after the jump…
The second episode was decent. Shooting on location really help the series’ case. The look is more The Shield than CSI, which was refreshing (though quickly becoming passe — another one of endlessly brilliant touches to The Wire is their decision to have the visual aesthetic completely stylized).
As the minutes, and scenes, ticked by I found myself looking around the room. Before long I had grabbed my computer and began hacking away for god-knows-what, pricing wireless cards and moderating the endless stream of comment spam that comes into my inbox every hour…
Author : glamour-agency (IP: 70.245.251.209 , ppp-70-245-251-209.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net)
E-mail :
URI : 0http://www.glamour-agency.com
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=70.245.251.209
Comment:
Digital Glamourhey great stuff
Um… yeah, whatever you say, “Digital Glamour.”
I guess what it all came down to was I just wasn’t interested in the series. Procedural cop-drama is not my thing. It’s a time-tested television staple that was perfected long before I was born and which will continue long after I die. There’s no urgency in my watching the modern-day incarnations, no matter how good they may be. Sure, each new series seems to be incorporating more and more serialized elements to attract more fans, but ultimately it’s just crime-of-the-week.
Maybe I’ll check back later in the season. K-Ville appears to be cancellation-proof at this point given the amount of money FOX has put into its promotion and production. For the foreseeable future, it’ll have to settle for being good, but not good enough.
