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Topic: TV: Sleeper Cell - it's good.
natslovR
Posts: 4645
Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
If you aren't following it already then i strongly suggest checking out the Showtime Mini-series Sleeper Cell (spoilers). Yes the tv.com entry makes it look hyperghey, but it isn't. It's hard to find links that don't contain spoilers but there is this writeup
Despite the mostly awful dialogue, “Sleeper Cell” succeeds on the strength of its plot. (There is one major casting blooper. In wanting to have a stereotypically innocent-looking actor play Tommy, the producers went too far and picked a dead ringer for Andy Richter, thereby introducing some unintended comedy into the show. Much of what Tommy does is stupid, but it’s not meant to be funny stupid.) You’re kept in a constant state of suspense as you watch various aspects of the plan taking shape—you know that, whatever it is, it’s big, but its outlines are unclear until well along in the series. What’s really scary about the show, though, isn’t what you think will or won’t happen at the end; it’s the idea that anyone who has terrorist inclinations might be watching—it looks way too easy to learn how to commit mass murder. That’s nothing new; it’s famously possible, so they say, to build a bomb with instructions available on the Internet. Still, the kind of ingenuity on display in “Sleeper Cell” is impressive; you want to tip your hat to it, and, at the same time, you want to grab your hat and run. But where to? The cell members hide in plain sight; they use PayPal to transfer drug money, and they pick up their packages at Mail Boxes Etc. They even find a novel way to collect information about wind speed and dispersal rates—by watching children have fun. Let’s just say that you won’t look at a child blowing soap bubbles again without wondering if you should call the F.B.I.
They are doing four episodes a week for the coming week which was the same this week, followed by a 2 hour final giving 10 episodes in total, so it'll all be over Tuesday week. The tv.com entry put me off but with nothing to watch i thought i'd check it out, and wanted to let people know not to be put off.

It isn't as gritty as The Shield, but not as plastic as CSI/Alias/NCIS. Definitely worth checking out in the Christmas tv-drought. If you aren't interested by the end of Ep1, then give up.

Anyone else watching, and what are your thoughts?
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Khel
Posts: 11026
Location: Wynnum, Queensland
So the first four episodes have already been on here then?
Reverend Evil
Posts: 13011
Location: Wynnum, Queensland
I watched ep one and really couldn't get in to it. It was extremely slow and for the 1st ep that's not good enough in my books.

8-)
amyescence
Posts: 89
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
the first 4 eps are on the que for me to watch right after i get through season 2 of carnivale.

natslovR
Posts: 4646
Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
So the first four episodes have already been on here then?
If by 'here' you mean on the normal tv torrent sites, then yes.
Khel
Posts: 11027
Location: Wynnum, Queensland
Oh ok, when you said Showtime mini-series I thought you meant it was on Foxtel on Showtime here.
phatmike
Posts: 395
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
just watched first 3 eps. fairly decent and something to watch since no lost for a month and no prison break for 3 months :(

24 in a month though :D
phatmike
Posts: 396
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
also you can see the pilot here

http://www.tvguide.com/

:P
natslovR
Posts: 4648
Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
yes, it was a nice advert for Toyota :-)
amyescence
Posts: 91
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
wasnt too bad, i didnt really notice the unintended comedy though.

and yeah good filler whilst lost and prison break take a break.
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