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A drama from writer-producer David Maples (“Rugrats,” “Teacher’s Pet,” “Huff”), “In Plain Sight”
follows Albuquerque-based U.S. marshal Mary Shannon, assigned to the witness-protection program. The show stars beautiful Mary McCormack, who first made an impression with Stephen Bochco’s superb but short-lived “Murder One,” then became Howard Stern’s wife Alison in “Private Parts” before morphing into NSA official Kate Harper on the non-Sorkin seasons of “The West Wing.”
USA Today gives "Sight" two stars (out of four) and says:
… It's a formula, but it's one that is fairly well-suited to viewers' summer desires. And as long as Sight sticks to the workplace, the formula pretty much works. …
Entertainment Weekly gives it an “B” and says:
… Director Mark Piznarski knows how to lay a series' groundwork, a talent he's proved by helming the pilots of shows ranging from Everwood to Veronica Mars to Gossip Girl. …
TV Guide says:
Mary Shannon is my favorite type of TV hero: funny, sexy, smart and smart-mouthed. As played to the sardonic hilt by Mary McCormack (The West Wing), she’s impatient with authority, as scrappy and tough as you’d expect from a U.S. Marshal assigned to the top-secret witness protection program, yet soft when it matters. Jim Rockford would have adored her. … When she goes home, though, Sight stumbles, introducing a wayward sister (Nichole Hiltz) with dangerous baggage and an infantile mom (Lesley Ann Warren) who should be put in witless protection. The show is entertaining enough on the job that it doesn’t need so-called comic relief. …
The New York Times says:
… one of the worst pilots in cable television history, a near fatal combination of cliché and overkill. … Fortunately the episodes that follow are less desperate to please, and leave room for better-wrought plots and talented guest stars to tell a story. “In Plain Sight” has hidden promise.
The Los Angeles Times says:
… Sunday's long pilot is somewhat overworked and overwritten, with a surfeit of likely suspects -- including bickering wiseguy types I'd hoped not to see for a while after "The Sopranos" cut to black -- cluttering up an already confused and finally tiring mystery. … Later episodes, however, trim the weeds and turn down the gas, and by Episode 4 -- a desert stand-off scenario featuring comedian Dave Foley as a mouthy prisoner -- it is clicking quite nicely. …
The Washington Post says:
… "In Plain Sight" would amount to very little without an actress of McCormack's talent and temperament in the central role. She has Shannon down pat from Moment One, not that, in her hands, there's anything pat about her.
The Chicago Tribune says:
… a rare misstep on the part of USA Network … another attempt at mixing the jokey and the serious within a loose procedural format. But "Sight's" writing is distressingly predictable, and McCormack's character is the least interesting thing about the show. …
The San Francisco Chronicle says:
… It's mediocre. … Unfortunately, both McCormack's character, Mary Shannon, and "In Plain Sight" itself are unoriginal copies of so many other characters and shows that it's hard to remain interested for 20 minutes, much less 76. And it's a real shame, too, because McCormack, given better writing, could really bring life to a hard-nosed workaholic U.S. marshal. …
The Salt Lake Tribune says:
… feels forced, its portrayals too broad. … If the crime cases that Mary takes seem interesting, it's because whenever the show cuts to her family's domestic squabbling, it devolves into a complete bore. …
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:
… opportunity for lighter moments, coupled with the complicated nature of Mary's character, makes "In Plain Sight" a little less vanilla. …
The Boston Globe says:
… could double as a handy guide to cop-drama mediocrity. … does precisely what a TV drama ought to do if it's aiming to be bad, but not bad enough to be scorned as completely awful. With supporting characters ranging from the dully vacant to the self-consciously quirky, and with crime plots that are as engaging as a game of Go Fish, "In Plain Sight" inspires mid-level irritation, mild disinterest, passing disappointment. …
Variety says:
… feels stale and nondescript, while falling short in the combination of drama and whimsy that ignited USA's "Burn Notice." Mary McCormack is equally unimpressive as the flawed, narration-heavy lead, and if "Sight" pulls its own disappearing act, given the evidence, the investigation should be brief.…
The Hollywood Reporter says:
… The pilot has its problems. McCormack's Shannon has more testosterone than a Marine platoon and her partner gets lost in her shadow. Fortunately, the excesses also were obvious to others, as well. In subsequent episodes, McCormack dials back her character, Weller gets more to do and the series gets more watchable. Apart from its New Mexico setting and its witness protection angle, little stands out here. Stories are less than suspenseful and characters are mainly two-dimensional. On the other hand, McCormack's kickass performance is a pretty good alternative to network reruns or mind-numbing reality slop. …
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I was just thinking about THE MIDDLEMAN
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stupid enter button...anyways, I was just thinking about THE MIDDLEMAN tonight while watching GREEK, and was kind of hoping it's one season wasn't the only one and then I see the dvd cover that says "the complete series", not a great show, but fun, too bad it doesn't get picked up when other crap does from ABC Family
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now give me Kids From C.A.P.E.R.
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I guess that means it's not coming back?
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Never heard of the show, but the lead actor is one of the few to appear in multiple Kubrick movies: as a Russian scientist in 2001, and as the cowardly dueling captain competing with Barry Lyndon for the affections of his Irish cousin.
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I'll see your Kids form C.A.P.E.R.
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My wife keeps watching and dropping the show, so it must have some redeeming values, and some not-so-redeeming values.
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Seriously...every time I see one of these columns with "GHOSTBUSTERS!!" I think it's about the f'ing blu-ray release. Instead it's about the shitty cartoon that people think was a lot better than it actually is.
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is phenomenal you moron.
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It's just one of the many things that people think was better than it actually is. It was an OK cartoon, that's all.
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Really well put together, really well animated, great voice acting, good mythology. A lot of creepy moments with some of those more bizarre episodes.
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Were is it?
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Not the movie cast...
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I mean Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch.
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That or F Troop.
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Love this show, Chris O'Dowd, Katherine Parkinson and Richard Ayoade (who you might remember from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace) is hilarious in this, they work really well together as a bunch of IT slackers. The Show gets even better When Darkplace's Mat Berry shows up in series two as the new boss. I just finished series 3 and can't wait for more, I highly recommend.
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and everyone else will shut the fuck up.
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He's Leonard Rossiter. One of England's finest. Reggie Perrin is v funny. Also check out Rising Damp, another one of his sitcoms. Classics.
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I am a big fan of British comedies. Even have a region-free DVD players so I can order my favorites from amazon.uk (Peep Show!)--but I watched one episode of The IT Crowd and just cringed throughout at the painful attempts at comedy. Have you seen Gervais' "Extras"? Well, The IT Crowd reminded me a lot of the meta-comedy "When The Whistle Blows" in which his character stars on the show.Perhaps I need to see a few more episodes. In the one I saw the entire show was about the female lead buying a new pair of shoes while the male leads tried to email the fire department. It was very broad comedy, we're talking side-of-the-barn broad.
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as do thousands of others.
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I'm totally buying that, but buying it more fiercely if it comes encased in a metal tin. That way I can put magnets on it. Because it's metal.
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Mar 31, 2009 4:56:14 PM CDT
COUNT DUCKULA season 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by soylentmean
I almost forgot that.
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as in eraser stealer?
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Yopur right, IT crowd is definitley "side of the barn" comedy, and it took me a couple episodes to get into it, I have seen a lot of British TV, including Extras, (I mostly prefer it over US stuff) but I stuck with IT crowd and it was worth it.
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The Real Ghostbusters packaging is quite handsome.
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It's their april fools prank! Theyyre screeening TOmmy Wiseau's the room! Room talkback now!!!
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and it's almost Whedonesque phrase turning. It was goofy fun. Guess that DVD art is the final nail in its coffin.
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The I.T. Crowd and The Office have almost nothing in common. IT Crowd is mostly crap, occasional decent gag excluded. How many TV shows with puns in the title are any good anyway? And is that the real cover for Caprica? From the producers of BSG in BIG LETTERS. Nice money grabbing strategy by SCi-Fi, releasing a pilot on DVD when people could watch if for free in like 6 months
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"DAMN YOU!"
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Seriously. AICN has a Heroes TB up at the crack of dawn every week for that tripe and we have to wait till 5:00 for a LOST TB? How long does it take to embed a few sneakpeeks and barf up some lame questions for the week?
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No disrespect.
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And I will tell you as soon as we get the Lost talkback
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Sure would be a damn shame if, say, something were to happen to it due to lack of Lost TB. (I kid, I kid!)
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Apr 01, 2009 12:54:09 PM CDT
I'm not at all anxious about getting the LOST TB up...
by trumpyeatspotatoes
I'm much more interested in the method to Herc's madness. How does he decide when to post? Does he add 10 minutes for every TBer who complains? If you add up the times he posts it, is it a secret code? Is Coax a Skinner Box, with Herc strategically testing the sanity of rabid Lost fans?
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does it have to do with Castaneda because that will FUCK YOUR MIND.
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Fact
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Creating yet another time paradox.
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What do I know? I stopped watching Season 2.
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Why are the LOST talkbacks always so late? Why don't you do invisotext anymore? Why does it sound like you haven't seen the episodes whenever you put it up? Did ABC stop sending you screeners?
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Do you guys really burn your lives away watching that much TV? I guess it's in our nature--otherwise the industry wouldn't be so healthy. I don't know, it's not like this should be any big revelation. I've read the statistics on how much time people spend in front of the TV. But just seeing so many hours, days, years of meaningless content in one place like that really drove the point home, I guess.
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In truth, I only watched the first season (13 eps) of my complete collection so far, so cannot definitively state whether it is "phenomenal" or not. From what I have heard though, when most people re-watch 80's cartoons like He-Man, Thundercats, G.I. Joe, etc., they are disappointed - while Real Ghostbusters is the opposite and is often even better than they remember. Legitimately well written (Michael Stracyznski), complex plots, excellent music.
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