Woah. Somehow Tuesday just flashed right by way back there. Almost a week ago. I spent the day not so much missing the fact that it was Tuesday but not actually getting it.
It happens to deer vs. headlights all the time. Or girls dating assholes.
So now that you’ve been watching Da Vinci’s City Hall for at least a couple weeks are you as hooked as we are? What a strange show: so political yet so compelling. So well-writen for TV yet so… real. Somehow I went seven years without seeing an episode of the original series, and here I am completely impressed by the new one and wondering what I’ve missed. According to the test markets in the States (and seven years worth of domestic fans) I’m missing quite a lot.
Where are we at, now? Dominic has established a hookers’ stroll, cordoned off by the officially reluctant police. The mayor insists the homeless and needful shall be protected, not harrassed, by the police, and the chief counters with a demand for more officers and a bigger budget to support them. Da Vinci bluntly refuses, suggesting the chief curtail overtime and find other means to pay for more officers. He demands the chief toe the line as a public servant, a roll the arrogant and smug chief does not take to at all well. The mayor is also working behind the scenes on his own time to save the horse track, carefully manouevering the different parties involved into a line that will best benefit Vancouver, despite the potentially shady character of his best bet.
And then there are the side plots. The new chief coroner has his hands full with lack of support from the police both on the scene and with cold cases, including a tangled web that looks like it might involve a very wealthy and influential land developer with the deaths of two native boys years ago. A homicide investigator finds her new partner is the man who tried to get her fired when he worked for Internal Affairs. The undercover plant hired by DaVinci is developing an affinity for his homeless brethren and when DaVinci tries to pull him out he hangs up the phone.
I’m lucky- we’re working on episode seven now so I’m a little farther along in the story. Now is a good time to jump in if you haven’t already. You’ll have just enough time to get to know the characters before things really start popping.
I like my job.
Oh – Miguel totally mixed down the sound of my bike in the opening scene of the fifth episode. Going to have to take him out back for a little talking to. Of course he’ll just blame the director. Not that I can really complain. The music score is very interesting. It seems a bit upbeat for the scene but it does draw you in. It seems to say, “this is how it is, which really isn’t so bad.” I dunno. You tell me.
Speaking of work I should get back to it. I’m currently loading picture for a movie called “Unnatural and Accidental Women” which will doubtless win all sorts of awards in the indie movie circuit. This is my third round of loading for it, but Miguel needs a compressed version to take to Toronto with him on his laptop. Work waits for no man, not even for the Geminis.
Did I mention he’s got two more nominations this year?