The Inside
Okay, so I'll admit it--I was closet Profiler fan. Well, no "fan" is too strong a word. I'd watch the show, but often with annoyance, both at the show and at myself for watching it. I suppose it was a guilty pleasure, just without the pleasure.
I just watched the premiere of The Inside, FOX's new FBI serial killer profiling team show. I think all the networks have one coming this year. Serial killers are everywhere on television. Yes, there are a few serial killers in real life, but the set of real life serial killers as a subset of real and fictional serial killers is a set of measure zero. We know how they operate--they stalk people in the dark, they do it without guilt, and they take parts of their victims' flesh with them. Sound like any mythical bad guys we know? Yes, I mean vampires. If you can make a compelling show about vampires and the people who hunt them, then why not serial killers? With The Inside, the people who did make shows about vampires do just this. That's right, The Inside was co-created by Tim Minear, (who gives FOX another chance after they cancelled his previous efforts Firefly and Wonderfalls), and IMDb lists four other Buffy and Angel veterans as writers: Jane Espenson, Bed Edlund, David Fury, and co-creator Howard Gordon. Plus it co-stars Adam Baldwin.
It follows the new FBI agent, a young female straight out of the academy--right after she shows up, Adam Baldwin calls her Clarice Starling--who despite having been denied acceptance into the profiling program twice is nevertheless chosen to join the special team based in the LA office and run by the creepy Special Agent Virgil Webster, played by Peter Coyote. It seems he runs this unit, and they investigate cases he finds interesting, and they stop if he loses interest. The rest of the group doesn't always like what he does. No, it doesn't really make sense in our reality. However, based on the first episode, I think it makes sense in it's reality, and that's all I really care about. It seems to want to focus on the profilers more than the profiled, which is always good, and according to Tim Minear, if the show is a soufflé, "it is a soufflé of pain."
I guess The Inside is like a guilty pleasure, only without the guilt. Now I just have to figure out how to keep FOX from canning it.
I just watched the premiere of The Inside, FOX's new FBI serial killer profiling team show. I think all the networks have one coming this year. Serial killers are everywhere on television. Yes, there are a few serial killers in real life, but the set of real life serial killers as a subset of real and fictional serial killers is a set of measure zero. We know how they operate--they stalk people in the dark, they do it without guilt, and they take parts of their victims' flesh with them. Sound like any mythical bad guys we know? Yes, I mean vampires. If you can make a compelling show about vampires and the people who hunt them, then why not serial killers? With The Inside, the people who did make shows about vampires do just this. That's right, The Inside was co-created by Tim Minear, (who gives FOX another chance after they cancelled his previous efforts Firefly and Wonderfalls), and IMDb lists four other Buffy and Angel veterans as writers: Jane Espenson, Bed Edlund, David Fury, and co-creator Howard Gordon. Plus it co-stars Adam Baldwin.
It follows the new FBI agent, a young female straight out of the academy--right after she shows up, Adam Baldwin calls her Clarice Starling--who despite having been denied acceptance into the profiling program twice is nevertheless chosen to join the special team based in the LA office and run by the creepy Special Agent Virgil Webster, played by Peter Coyote. It seems he runs this unit, and they investigate cases he finds interesting, and they stop if he loses interest. The rest of the group doesn't always like what he does. No, it doesn't really make sense in our reality. However, based on the first episode, I think it makes sense in it's reality, and that's all I really care about. It seems to want to focus on the profilers more than the profiled, which is always good, and according to Tim Minear, if the show is a soufflé, "it is a soufflé of pain."
I guess The Inside is like a guilty pleasure, only without the guilt. Now I just have to figure out how to keep FOX from canning it.
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