Warehouse 13

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Warehouse 13 is a Syfy channel original series.


After saving the life of the President in Washington D.C., a pair of Secret Service agents are whisked away against their will to a remote location in South Dakota to a warehouse that houses supernatural objects that the Regents, an authority above an outside any government, have collected over the centuries. Their assignment: To retrieve and secure any lost objects and investigate reports of new ones.

The agents, the male played by Eddie McClintock, and the female played by Joanne Kelly are fun, but still, demonstrate the limited budget of this show. Saul Rubinek as their boss and curator of the warehouse museum, is a veteran, but really, this is not his best work.....

The stories every episode revolve around the agents seeking out and securing for the Warehouse an artifact that is causing mystical mayhem. The US government's philosophy is, that if we can't explain it, let us warehouse it until we can.

This show has a very "X-Files" feel to it, and honestly I only saw one episode of the X-Files, but worms coming out of a guy's mouth left me cold. Still, I am betting my wife will really love this show. It's mystical, and just creepy enough to hold the interest of folks who like this kind of stuff.

So for me, I feel I cannot judge. My wife I truly believe is going to love this. But this just isn't my genre. Does that make it bad? Not necessarily. I wish the budget allowed for more dynamic actors, sure, okay. But these folks are doing the best they can.

So if you liked "The X-Files",  give this a try.  But based on the limited abilities of the actors and the sometimes convoluted scripts, I cannot give this a good grade.

Grade: B-
and I think that's generous. But that's just me.

My wife might give it an A.

Side Note: My wife didn't like it. She watched a couple episodes and went to other things. So, I think I was being waaaaayyyy generous.

Bosch

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stream available on amazon plus.

I love the way everybody is jumping into the foray and helping re-invent television. Netflix is creating brilliant TV, not to mention AMC, or FX, only to name a few. Televison has finally become where the real art is happening. It is no longer movies. I think the day when the up-and-comers have to pay their dues by doing features before they can get into TV is on the horizon.

So amazon.com decides to roll the dice. They steal a guy from the cast of CBS's "The Good Wife" and turn him into Harry Bosch, a police detective in Hollywood, CA, who has just been burdened with the skeletal remains of a 12 year old kid in a 20 year old murder, and an active serial killer, all the while standing trial for a good shoot of a serial killer, and getting intimate with a below pay grade underling, and trying to re-establish an estranged relationship with his 15 year old daughter.

Titus Welliver stars as Harry Bosch, the troubled Hollywood Detective who has always been a rouge because he refuses to kiss any ass in the department. He gets saddled with two horrible cases and gets caught up in the intrigue that involves city politics, and department protocol. Thankfully he has a great partner played by "The Wire" alumni Jamie Hector as Detective Jerry Edgar.

There are too many great supporting cast members to mention, but this cast is first class all the way. A stand-out is Jason Gedrick as a villain Raynard Waits. And it was nice to see Veronica Cartwright in a very brave and outstanding performance.

This is a show that Elmore Leonard and maybe even my hero Raymond Chandler would have loved. It was filled with all the right elements. Ten episodes and out. But I really hope we have more coming. I sincerely wish for that.

I loved this show and would recommend this experience highly. It was ten episodes from amazon. Watch it, and encourage others to do that too. Maybe they'll give us more.....

Grade: A-