Waking the Dead **** I

[NV Whino]

I like this series for a lot of reasons, but I think the main one is because it's so spare and clean visually. Limited cast; good, simple, stylized costumes; stark sets. Contrasted it with the similarly themed Da Vinci's Inquest. DVI is quite busy and sloppy. This carries through even to the dialog. WTD dialog is crisp, fast flowing and sharp; the characters enunciate. Even with a non-Amerian accent they are easy to understand. DVI is more natural and consequently sloppier and harder to understand. I have to say that one of my pet peeves with current movies and TV shows is the lack of elocution by the actors. It's so refreshing to find actors who can open their mouth and form proper (and understandable) sounds.

I didn't give this series 5 stars, but I like it a lot and, were it possible I would give it 4.5.

[AtomicKitten]

1. They are on hiatus now.

[dipsydoodle]

2. If you mean "holiday"

I assume you get it / had it way behind the UK. Its finished now forever.

[AtomicKitten]

3. No I meant hiatus; it's back in February.

http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Walking-Dead-Preview-Season-2-Returns-February-With-Nebraska-37321.html

[MaineDem]

4. I think the series just ended with Season 9

"After nine series, Waking the Dead has now come to an end. But Dr Eve Lockhart, the Cold Case Unit's forensic pathologist played by Tara FitzGerald, will return in a new crime series for BBC One, called The Body Farm."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r9ys

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. "Waking The Dead" not "Walking Dead"

I did the same thing. I had to re-read it like three times.

[AtomicKitten]

7. Derp.

Thanks.

[dipsydoodle]

6. I should have said break as opposed to holiday.

We don't use the expression haitus much in the UK. We also don't call them "seasons" : we refer to them as "series"

I can see from the above there's been a misunderstanding anyway as I was taking about the UK's/BBC's Waking The Dead.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Love that series

I had to order 5 and 6 from the UK, and the rest are on my wish list at Amazon UK (I have a region-free player).

[whathehell]

9. I loved this series!

and have all nine seasons (series)....Loved Trevor Eve..Wish they'd do a tenth series.

[petronius]

10. I loved it as well, and Trevor Eve did a great job - Supt. Boyd was not

so likable, however, and it often seemed to me (esp. in earlier seasons) that the team succeeded in spite of him rather than because of. An excellent portrayal of a pretty screwed-up person...

[whathehell]

11. Interesting take on Boyd..

I thought the writers "played" with his character, making him officious and egotistical in some

seasons, ostentatiously "eccentic" in others, and pretty decent in still others.

He seemed "pretty decent" to me in the first couple of seasons and became

more weird, in my view, down the road.