Category Archives: Damages
Damages Season 3 (8): “Consider this the carrot …”
Ah, the welcome return of Ted Danson. Star acting-transformation of Series 1, as the shock-white-haired reformed fraudster Arthur Frobisher, tangled up en passant in series 2, he returns now to further strengthen the acting array in Series 3. What is … Continue reading
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Damages Series 3 (7): “You didn’t replace me”
Damages was unaccountably deferred for a week in the schedules. (Maybe they worried we might think a conniving amoral lawyer resembled too closely one D Cameron – zing! Take that botoxed Etonman. That’s worth another 4 points off your poll ratings.) The … Continue reading
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Damages Season 3 (6): “A lot of big brothers out there want to steal your mashed potatoes”
I must report that Ms bold, a Glenn Close and Damages fan, found this episode curiously unsatisfying. I fear it’s because each scene is now on average 4 seconds long and by this point the series is weaving so many multiple strands … Continue reading
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Damages: Season 3 (5): “Careful, she’s a big responsibility.”
So what is it with Patty and birthdays? Here she is about to become (what, 50? 120? we’re never told) let’s just say a year older, and she’s mentally freaking out about it. Nice excuse to crowbar back in dead … Continue reading
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Damages, Season 3 (4): “See, now we’re co-operating”
Like a well-cooked Mexican meal, which requires 27 ingredients and five different kinds of chillies, Damages really works best when all of its story elements have been prepared, ground up and are cooking away in one big pot of intrigue. Continue reading
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Damages: Season 3 (3): “Do you feel blessed?”
It’s a fun game to think of all the old films whose plots wouldn’t work in the era of mobile phones: Dial M for Murder, The Sting, Finding Nemo (allowing for fish mobiles). By contrast nowadays they get routinely deployed … Continue reading
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Damages: Season 3 (2): “Figure it out, Tommy”
Damages is taking a risk in season three, seemingly hinging its action around Tom Shayes (Tate Donovan), who has not been the brightest light in the Damages starry array. Tommy is certainly the fulcrum around which episode two pivots. The … Continue reading
Damages – Season 3 (1): Who’s in the dumpster?
arialbold has been an excited quivering wreck since discovering the third season of Damages was upcoming on BBC. With Glenn Close as ice-queen who-will-she-get-next NY lawyer Patty Hewes, nothing is ever what it seems. With Damages, practically the only things … Continue reading
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