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Post by carl1951 on May 27, 2009 13:32:43 GMT -5
NBC has a new detective show in the line-up. I think the name is Raine.
A detective who sees ghosts of murder victims and communicates with them. Huh?
More believable than a blind detective solving cases. I suppose.
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Post by hoosier on May 27, 2009 18:35:08 GMT -5
This sounds familiar. Funny thing, it would probably catch on unlike some other show we know  There is also one about a guy who can hear other people's thoughts. Don't think he's a cop, just helps people out. You know in real life they would be chasing down people like him with a butterfly net and carting them off to a nice place with plush wall coverings. Wonder how long these will last? |
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Post by bjobsessed on May 27, 2009 21:36:09 GMT -5
NBC has a new detective show in the line-up. I think the name is Raine. A detective who sees ghosts of murder victims and communicates with them. Huh? More believable than a blind detective solving cases. I suppose. Sounds a little like The Sixth Sense |
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Post by mlm828 on May 29, 2009 0:53:12 GMT -5
NBC has a new detective show in the line-up. I think the name is Raine. A detective who sees ghosts of murder victims and communicates with them. Huh? More believable than a blind detective solving cases. I suppose. I always wondered why Blind Justice received so much criticism as "unrealistic" while many less realistic shows do not. After all, every TV show is unrealistic, more or less, and requires a suspension of disbelief. I have come to the conclusion that, paradoxically, Blind Justice was criticized for being "unrealistic" because it was trying to be realistic. It's much easier to suspend disbelief when a show is an outright fantasy -- you know, one with ghosts or vampires or demons. |
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Post by shmeep on May 29, 2009 9:30:45 GMT -5
NBC has a new detective show in the line-up. I think the name is Raine. A detective who sees ghosts of murder victims and communicates with them. Huh? More believable than a blind detective solving cases. I suppose. I always wondered why Blind Justice received so much criticism as "unrealistic" while many less realistic shows do not. After all, every TV show is unrealistic, more or less, and requires a suspension of disbelief. I have come to the conclusion that, paradoxically, Blind Justice was criticized for being "unrealistic" because it was trying to be realistic. It's much easier to suspend disbelief when a show is an outright fantasy -- you know, one with ghosts or vampires or demons. That has to be it! Yes. Blind Justice was not operating on any premise of fantasy and, while most shows aren't terribly realistic and can be picked apart easily, they have to either look realistic or look like they're not supposed to be realistic. Blind Justice definitely tried to be authentic and that put some people off. Not us, of course, but all the unenlightened out there couldn't get past it. Taking a blatantly fanciful concept and inserting it into real life makes it easier for people to go on flights of fancy. Okay, I just said exactly what mlm did but using different words. I guess I just emphatically agree. ;D |
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Post by hoosier on May 29, 2009 17:39:18 GMT -5
NBC has a new detective show in the line-up. I think the name is Raine. A detective who sees ghosts of murder victims and communicates with them. Huh? More believable than a blind detective solving cases. I suppose. I always wondered why Blind Justice received so much criticism as "unrealistic" while many less realistic shows do not. After all, every TV show is unrealistic, more or less, and requires a suspension of disbelief. I have come to the conclusion that, paradoxically, Blind Justice was criticized for being "unrealistic" because it was trying to be realistic. It's much easier to suspend disbelief when a show is an outright fantasy -- you know, one with ghosts or vampires or demons. That must be it! I know we have said before but if Jim Dunbar had been a PI or any profession other than a cop would it have been more acceptable? Maybe. TV audiences can be fickle. But the big question is, would the show have been as interesting? |
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Post by maggiethecat on May 30, 2009 15:44:40 GMT -5
I always wondered why Blind Justice received so much criticism as "unrealistic" while many less realistic shows do not. After all, every TV show is unrealistic, more or less, and requires a suspension of disbelief. I have come to the conclusion that, paradoxically, Blind Justice was criticized for being "unrealistic" because it was trying to be realistic. It's much easier to suspend disbelief when a show is an outright fantasy -- you know, one with ghosts or vampires or demons. That must be it! I know we have said before but if Jim Dunbar had been a PI or any profession other than a cop would it have been more acceptable? Maybe. TV audiences can be fickle. But the big question is, would the show have been as interesting? Um, Carl darlin'? I would have to check back through a morass of old threads, but I seem to remember "Raine" as a midseason replacement a few seasons back, with Jeff Goldblum as the lead. HIghly touted . . . and it sank like the proverbial stone and was yanked after a few episodes. So I do wonder where you're getting your info. Maybe NBC has pulled out of mothballs the episodes already in the can and are running them this summer? Inquiring minds want to know! All the best, Mags |
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Post by doobrah on Jun 18, 2009 22:58:24 GMT -5
There was a detective show two years ago with Jeff Goldblum called "Raines." I think it was on NBC. Goldblum played his usually quirky character. I may have watched two episodes -- it was just ok. It didn't last much longer before the network yanked it.
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Post by maggiethecat on Jun 19, 2009 16:18:07 GMT -5
There was a detective show two years ago with Jeff Goldblum called "Raines." I think it was on NBC. Goldblum played his usually quirky character. I may have watched two episodes -- it was just ok. It didn't last much longer before the network yanked it. I'm sure that's what Carl's recent post referenced: the late unlamented "Raines." Jeff Goldblum "sees dead people" and it was yanked after a few. Strange to say -- never been a huge Jeff Goldblum fan -- that he's doing a great job in the newest incarnation of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Which we used to refer to in my house as Criminal Bent, because of the odd angle at which Vincent D'Onofrio held his head.  Doob, are you cracking up (as I am) at the proliference of the "The" shows? THE Ghost Whisperer, THE Medium, THE Mentalist, THE Listener . . and, soon to come, THE Philanthropist, which I will give a shot at if for no other reason than the delectable presence of Jesse L. Martin, late of L & O: THE Mothership. That said, lots of crappy detective shows out there . . . retreads and nothing new. Makes me wish Bochco & Co would somehow find a way to resurrect a certain well cast and well written offering about a blind NYPD tec. |
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Post by inuvik on Jun 20, 2009 11:49:15 GMT -5
That said, lots of crappy detective shows out there . . . retreads and nothing new. Makes me wish Bochco & Co would somehow find a way to resurrect a certain well cast and well written offering about a blind NYPD tec. There's a good one too--see Murdoch Mysteries thread! (Technically called The Murdoch Mysteries, so there's another "The") |
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Post by carl1951 on Jun 27, 2009 14:31:14 GMT -5
I could be wrong.
Might be a description of an old show.
Later, Carl
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