"Pasadena"

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For some reason every episode of this forgotten American soap opera from about three or four years ago was showing on three subequent Sundays on French TV. I managed to catch all but the first two episodes.

This is a very impressive bit of work I think, a show that until the final 20 minutes or show stays proudly and intelligently within the conventions of the soaper, with perhaps a bit more violence and perversity lurking on the margins (my favorite example is the oblivious young son who sees every family quarrel, no matter how grave, as a means of getting a new scooter or computer)...but in those last twenty minutes it turns into something terrifying and (to me at least) most disturbing, in that it

ECHO OF A SPOILER

takes the conscience of the show and intimates her complete corruption. Sort of Bunuelian in a way. I was extremely impressed.

Talk about the TV show "Pasadena."

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

final 20 minutes or show

final 20 minutes or SO

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Mike White is building up a very interesting resume...

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.musicmatic.de/P/Pasaden1a.jpg?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

No the soap opera with Dana Delaney and Martin Donovan and Phillip Baker Hall and Alison Lohman etc.

Has no one seen this?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I was joking!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this was a thread about the DVD release of Depeche Mode's 101. Oh well...

GOOD EVENING PASADENA!
http://101dvd.depechemode.com/wallpaper/101_11_640.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

*has an overwhelming flashback of her teen years*

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

jesus christ

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you referring to the late J. Christ of biblical fame?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

no i was just expressing disappointment

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Disappointment over Depeche Mode is not allowed. *sends jackbooted thugs after Amateurist*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry to be such a grouch but i was simply disappointed because no one seems to have seen the conclusion to this show--I haven't been able to find a single review of it on the web, nor has anyone responded here.

i dont care one way or the other about depeche mode.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i've seen it. for a while there, fox was plugging it very hard, and rerunning the four or so existing episodes of fx, like, every day. i thought it was a great show. lotsa mystery, lotsa possible incest, lotsa drama. but i don't think there ever was a conclusion. at least, not one that i saw.

― tv head mcgee, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe it's only in the european or french version!

i feel privileged suddenly

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

the show got cancelled, there was no conclusion. I liked the first two episodes but by then they were already talking of cancelling it so I bailed, because I didn't want another unfinished show I liked to disappear and leave me wanting more.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never heard of this show, but it sounds great.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I started watching it too, but it got cancelled before any conclusion could be shown. Since US series go on as long as they can, a conclusion probably hadn't been filmed at that point. It was filmed in Vancouver, except for the bit in the opening credits with the car parked in the covered courtyard, which is Pasadena city hall.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

Bit Torrenters of the world I am severely disappointed in you.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 06:27 (sixteen years ago)

And Pasadena city hall is used for Pawnee's in Amy Poehler's Parks and Recreation series. Very photogenic.

― nickn, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 06:41 (sixteen years ago)

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