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Damages (Season 1)
Jun. 18th, 2008 03:37 pmFollowing the advice of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
londonkds, I've been watching Damages, and it turned out to be as good as advertised. I am not as enamored as I was of Dexter's first season, but I am hugely impressed. And not just by the two leading ladies, both of whom I had watched and admired before (Glenn Close is a given, and Rose Byrne took what was potentially the most thankless role in Russell T Davies' Casanova - the servant old Casanova tells his life to - and made her character far more interesting than the main love interest, to say nothing of the fact she held her own against Peter O'Toole). Or by the fact it passes the Blechdel test (are there female characters who manage to have a conversation with each other that's not about romance?) in every single episode. It's a sleek well written twisty drama, and though I didn't fall in love with the esemble in the way I fell for the Dexter ensemble, they're all distinct individuals, and all interesting.
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londonkds, I've been watching Damages, and it turned out to be as good as advertised. I am not as enamored as I was of Dexter's first season, but I am hugely impressed. And not just by the two leading ladies, both of whom I had watched and admired before (Glenn Close is a given, and Rose Byrne took what was potentially the most thankless role in Russell T Davies' Casanova - the servant old Casanova tells his life to - and made her character far more interesting than the main love interest, to say nothing of the fact she held her own against Peter O'Toole). Or by the fact it passes the Blechdel test (are there female characters who manage to have a conversation with each other that's not about romance?) in every single episode. It's a sleek well written twisty drama, and though I didn't fall in love with the esemble in the way I fell for the Dexter ensemble, they're all distinct individuals, and all interesting. ( More impressions hidden behind a cut )
