BOSS, w/kelsey grammer, feat. martin donovan

Holy shit, the new season started last night!? Way to promote yer wares, there, Starz.

ive been seeing a lot of promos for it... i dont even get starz!

i downloaded the first season a few days ago, gonna watch it just for my dude k-grams

the spectrum of female character hair colour in this show is very narrow. so many shades of blonde.

i bailed on the first season very quickly, maybe i should try to catch up?

you should, it's great, you just stopped watching or?

first 2-3 episodes just did not compel me to keep watching at the time

Yeah, this show is pretty hugely underrated. Not to say that it's quite as good as either, but it feels very "Breaking Bad (sociopathic protagonist with life-threatening physical ailment seizing & keeping power by any means necessary) meets The Wire (the effects of byzantine politics on every stratum of the city)". I'd say give it another chance. I thought the first season was much better than the much more highly-touted first season of Homeland.

i caught up on the whole run so far in the space of a week and it's really kind of not that good? not bad, some great scenes and i have the vague feeling that S2 is an uptick in quality from S1, but at times it's just embarrassing. especially whenever Kelsey's daughter acts, or during the customary OTT athletic sex scene in each episode.

I just watched the first season, and I thought it had some great moments, but it's kinda uneven... Some Dude is OTM about the pointless sex scenes; I think with Kitty and Zajac they're sort of justified (though they still feel gratuitous in their willingness to show off her body, but not his), as they both appear to be sex addicts, but with the other characters, not so much.

But my biggest problem with Boss is that, on the one hand the show tries to paint a relatively realistic picture of political manouvering, but on the other hand the main character is mayor of huge American city who apparently has no problems having people that get in his way assassinated. In Season 1 we see him do it to at least two (the guy who was supplying him with drugs, and SPOILER), but it's implied this isn't the first time he's done it (so his deteriorating mental health doesn't really explain it), and that just doesn't feel credible. And there's a similar problem with the dialogue: it mostly aims for realism, but every once in a while Kane and Stone get into big monologues that sound overtly theatrical and unnatural.

However, when the show focuses on the actual political games, I think it's still quite gripping and watchable; Kane's revenge in the second-to-last episode was masterfully executed, in my opinion. And Kelsey Grammer is pretty great in the lead role, if you don't count the aforementioned speechifying problem. When an actor is so strongly associated with one particular role, it isn't easy to shed off that old character and make the viewer accept you as someone totally different, but I think Grammer pulls it off.

Anyone watching this? I've been sort of hooked.

glad donovan still had lots of work to do so far. last few eps have been very intense. the riot one was really great, but I like explodey city more than political intrigue at this point. grandfather twist was pretty good too -- like they don't even have anti-heros in this show. everyone is just *awful*.

in that sense, probably the bleakest of the cable dramas. not even a bad guy to root for.

well, it had a nice run at least.

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miss u martin donovan