Gooooood Tee Vee

Woooohooo! New episodes of Wire in the Blood start airing on Monday, April 11th.

If you have BBC America on your cable/satellite system (DirecTV Channel 264!) and are a fan of crime drama, I would highly recommend watching this series. Robson Green plays Dr. Tony Hill, who according to the website is:

{...} a clinical psychologist who works with convicted killers in secure units. Intelligent and endearing, he is driven by a tangible sense of right and wrong, working to glean information from his patients about their crimes to help them and the victims' relatives. Tony's understanding of human behavior enables him to empathize with both victim and killer - even to the point of almost sensing the killings themselves. His expertise could be valuable to the police, but some consider him too eccentric.

By eccentric they mean a. he's not overly postmodern and b. he talks to himself. A lot. Robson Green's performance is, quite honestly, one of the best and most interesting performances on I've seen on tee vee in recent years. This character is someone who if you ran into them in real life, you'd think was a complete nutjob. But Green makes him extraordinarily fascinating and lets you into Tony's head, and not in a hokey, Tom Cruise-ish sort of way.

BBCAmerica is running older episodes starting this evening, with the new series starting on the 11th. Check it out if you get the chance and have two hours at a shot to blow. It's well worth your time.

I suppose I should also note that the Brits have different broadcast standards than we do. These, on occasion, can be fairly gory. Beware.

Posted by Kathy at March 28, 2005 01:10 AM