More Jericho squee
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elabyI cannot WAIT for next week's Jericho episode. Coming down off of all the hard-boiled fiction I've been reading, it's really a delight and a relief to see something that has the same atmosphere and style but has more updated characters. I suppose I ought to appreciate the hard-boiled detective characters of the 30's and 40's, in that their characters are what was popular at the time, but I can't help being a child of this age and preferring characters to be somewhat compassionate and likable. (I suppose I'm also probably judging all classic detectives on Sam Spade, which I oughtn't.) Anyway, this show makes me squee in the extreme. All of the things that in other shows or movies would be cliché, like the token Angsty Nightmares and Flashbacks, work perfectly here because it's playing on nostalgia for the classic hard-boiled style. Detective characters are required to have tragic pasts, don't you know. That was something Spade didn't have, and maybe if I ever got any impression that he even existed before the first page of the novel, I would have liked him better. Anyway. I found this on the PBS page.
Robert Lindsay on Michael Jericho
"Jericho is determined to find his father's killers or solve why he was killed. His mother is in a home and is still in shock after all these years. She is reluctant to talk about what happened, so Jericho has been left in the dark. He has awful recurring nightmares about the shooting. He cannot sleep because of these haunting nightmares. To get some relief he drinks himself stupid in a jazz club in Soho, called the Night Owl, which is frequented by people of the night... [. . .] Jericho is a complete workaholic, which makes him very difficult. He finds loyal support in his sidekicks, Harvey and Caldicott. He and Harvey have a long standing friendship. Jericho is at his most relaxed when he is with Harvey's family. They are the family he never had. I think he has locked himself away emotionally. Jericho does seem very cold. But he has amazing compassion. Because he is wounded he seems to get things out of people who are wounded. He is a clever detective. He is a man of the street."
BAHAHAHA. Stoic but tormented. Play right to my ridiculous angst whorish tendencies, why don't you?! *charmed to DEATH*
Anyway, this show is lovely. Depending on how the next two episodes go, I'm going to see about ordering the DVD. *such a dork*
[edit: As if I didn't already think he was awesome, Robert Lindsay came up with the idea for Jericho's past himself XD According to a Times article posted about halfway down on this page, he thought the original concept of the character was too heroic, and he got the idea of the shooting from an incident his brother witnessed.]
Robert Lindsay on Michael Jericho
"Jericho is determined to find his father's killers or solve why he was killed. His mother is in a home and is still in shock after all these years. She is reluctant to talk about what happened, so Jericho has been left in the dark. He has awful recurring nightmares about the shooting. He cannot sleep because of these haunting nightmares. To get some relief he drinks himself stupid in a jazz club in Soho, called the Night Owl, which is frequented by people of the night... [. . .] Jericho is a complete workaholic, which makes him very difficult. He finds loyal support in his sidekicks, Harvey and Caldicott. He and Harvey have a long standing friendship. Jericho is at his most relaxed when he is with Harvey's family. They are the family he never had. I think he has locked himself away emotionally. Jericho does seem very cold. But he has amazing compassion. Because he is wounded he seems to get things out of people who are wounded. He is a clever detective. He is a man of the street."
BAHAHAHA. Stoic but tormented. Play right to my ridiculous angst whorish tendencies, why don't you?! *charmed to DEATH*
Anyway, this show is lovely. Depending on how the next two episodes go, I'm going to see about ordering the DVD. *such a dork*
[edit: As if I didn't already think he was awesome, Robert Lindsay came up with the idea for Jericho's past himself XD According to a Times article posted about halfway down on this page, he thought the original concept of the character was too heroic, and he got the idea of the shooting from an incident his brother witnessed.]
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Date: 2006-05-10 03:41 pm (UTC)Back in the 70's there was a detective show set in the 40's called Ellery Queen starring Jim Hutton, who is Timothy Hutton's father. I loved it. I found out that it had been inspired by a series of detective novels written in the 40's and 50's, and Ellery was quite a different type from the normal hard-boiled detectives of that time: sort of a bumbling but smart nice-guy type. I spent a whole summer reading all the novels I could get my hands on. I think they were pretty light, but the character was the same. In looking this up, I find that the series is now out on dvd . *babbles*
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