Okay, I'm ready to concede that the Canadians are smarter than we are. How else to explain the level of intelligence expected of the TV audience for INTELLIGENCE (CBC, 2006-2008)? This is a Vancouver-based espionage/crime series that explores multiple (and I do mean multiple) simultaneous and complicated stings and
alliances and dealings and characters, among them smugglers and bureaucrats and growers and gun-runners and ex-wives and politicians and madams, and it's all done so fast that you have to pay complete attention, with no time to blink or space to space out in and even after ramping up your concentration and thought speed to match the action, you're still probably gonna miss a trick or two. We just finished watching the pilot and season 1 of INTELLIGENCE, and they were enormously entertaining and enthralling -- with scenes that are so beautifully written and moments that are so perfectly spot-on that you wish you had just a second more to savor them -- but you don't, or you might miss the next crucial and fabulous piece of information. Kudos to everyone involved in this production. If anyone knows how to reach Ian Tracey (who plays mob boss Jimmy Reardon), please tell him there's at least one cowgirl down in California who's got a sizable crush on him, and she's expecting Season 2 to take up most of her free time for the next couple of weeks. Who knows? Watching it might just make her a little smarter
March 25, 2010
