本剧集是BBC 2台2000年正式推出的以青年人为题材和对象的系列情景喜剧,创意和编剧均由Steven Moffat一人担当。三男三女的主要人物构成很容易使人联想到当时正走红(其实已经在走下坡路)的《Friends》,因此很有不少根本没看过本剧的媒体人士和评论家想当然地将本剧称作英国版的《Friends》,而在那些有幸欣赏过本剧的观众们看来,《Coupling》在情节设定、人物表演、喜剧元素的设计和表现等诸多方面所达到的水平,要比《Friends》高几个档次。相比之下,《Friends》只能说是一部“业余”水平的好作品而已。当然总体来说,英剧的水准本身就高于美剧,这和英剧注意保持创意、编剧一体化是分不开的,美剧的创意一般也就为最初几集编剧,以后主要的编剧工作都是由其它编剧根据最初的角色设定来自由发挥,编剧队伍的构成也是不断变化,老的走新的来,造成美剧情节连贯性差甚至前后矛盾,故事往往缺乏深度,人物性格平面化,缺少发展。这都是题外话了。《Coupling》的主要人物包括优柔寡断、性格不成熟的帅哥Steve,Steve的莫逆之交、举止语言古怪、总也找不到女友的Jeff,头脑简单、外表性感的“donkey” Patrick三位对Porn、特别是lesbian porn非常热中的男士,以及Steve的前女友、神神叨叨、擅用性感作武器的Jane,Steve的继任女友、Jeff的同事、曾经非常“不羁”(包括和Jeff还有Patrick)过的Susan,Susan的莫逆、对衰老和肥胖极度敏感的美容师Sally三位女士。本剧的主线包括Steve和 Susan之间逐渐正式起来的关系,Jeff寻找艳遇过程中的种种意外以及后来和上司发展出来的一段关系,Patrick和Sally之间若有若无到若即若离再到情深难舍的感情发展,还有Jane在事业和异性关系中的各种奇事,等等。本剧在情节设计中所达到的精致和完美程度让人叹为观止,而六位当时并不算大明星的青年演员的所展现精湛演技更是具有顶尖演员的水平,无怪乎播出之后立刻走红大洋两岸,在IMDB、AMAZON和BBC网站可以领略到其受欢迎的程度。
The second series, Ben Harper, husband and father to three different and often difficult children has spent his working life as a dentist. Just as well as most of his life seems rather like pulling teeth. His wife Susan is usually busy showing foreign tourists around London, a place she knows much better than her own kitchen. Ben and Susan have been married happily enough to have three children. However, Ben has the feeling that most of the time his children seem to speak a different language. Nick (20) has persuaded his parents he would benefit from a gap year to see something of the world. To date, he has hardly seen anything beyond the confines of the sofa. Janey (17) is into boys, fashion labels (expensive ones) and getting her own way. Michael (14) is the brightest of the trio. He is seriously into computers, and, not so seriously (yet) into girls.
尼古拉斯·凯奇将主持Netflix喜剧节目《脏话史》(History Of Swear Words),探索Fuck、Shit、Bitch、Dick、Pussy、Damn等脏话的起源、流行文化用法、科学和文化影响。
This series chronicled the lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie was a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, came to CI5 from the regular police force, and was more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship was often contentious, but they were the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
記者莫里泰瑞費盡畢生心血調查山姆之子殺人案,執着的他堅信這些命案與撒但邪教有關
Surreal comedy with Mawaan Rizwan and Russell Tovey, following Jamma (played by Mawaan) and his quest for attention as he navigates chaotic family dynamics and literally stumbles through love.
A dramedy that tells, with irony and humor, the adventures of Eliseo, the janitor of an upper class building, who, behind the back of the managing company that employs him, uses his position to surveil and be intimately acquainted with the building's tenants. The building is a universe whose ecosystem has specific dynamics and rules, and Eliseo knows them all by heart. There he lives, works and absorbs every detail of the life of its residents. However, underneath all his humility, he hides a talent for manipulating them. A facade of servility and sincerity is his most effective weapon he uses on them. His power is knowledge. He knows everything about his neighbors: their names, schedules, jobs, relationships, weaknesses, likes, etc. His mind registers everything that goes on in the complex. With this advantage over his "victims", he devises strategies to influence each tenant and can calculate precisely how they will react. This game of power over the neighbors is akin to playing cat and mouse. Depending on his whims, his mood or his need to protect his position at all costs, he is capable of causing wide ranging damage. He also dispenses justice and protects those he sees as weak. He is a God on his own turf.
CW热门美剧《绿箭侠》的金童玉女斯蒂芬·阿梅尔和凯蒂·卡西迪声称。两人在剧中本是一对旧情人,不过因为各种原因分手当前任。英雄配美女这样老套的搭配并没有出现在剧中,而是升华为“英雄惜英雄”——凯蒂饰演绿箭侠前女友Laurel,在剧中表面是一个不向恶势力低头的正义女律师,而 实际上却是超级女英雄“黑金丝雀”Black Canary。俗话说男女搭配干活不累,男女英雄亦是如此。
该剧改编自休·豪伊所著同名畅销科幻系列小说,故事发生在一个反乌托邦未来,大约一万名人类在144层深的筒仓型地堡居住,他们被告知外面的世界因受到毒气感染而变得不适合人类居住,仅余的幸存者遂躲进地堡避难,并制订了规条来维持地堡中的新社会运作。
《午夜弥撒》由《鬼入侵》创剧人迈克·弗拉纳根倾力打造,故事背景设定在与世隔绝的小岛社区,身败名裂的年轻人(扎克·吉尔福德饰)再度回归,同时一名魅力非凡的牧师(哈米什·林克莱特饰)到访,加剧了这个社区的分裂。当保罗神父出现在克罗克特岛时,恰好发生了一些无法解释、不可思议的事件,令这个社区重新燃起了对宗教的狂热,但这些奇迹是否伴有相应的代价?
Discover a side of Abraham Lincoln you’ve never seen before. Inspired by David S. Reynolds’s book “Abe: Abraham, Lincoln in his Times,” Lincoln’s Dilemma comes to Apple TV February 18. In this four-part docuseries, a diverse panel of historians and rare archival materials offer a more nuanced look into Abraham Lincoln's presidency.
来自纽约的都市女孩Zoe Hart(Rachel Bilson扮演)正憧憬着自己的未来--她以全班第一的优异成绩从医学院毕业,将继承父亲的衣钵当一名心胸外科医生。可是当Zoe的梦想破灭之后,她不得不接受性情古怪的Harley Wilkes医生的邀请,去他开办的小诊所工作。 离开喧嚣的都市,Zoe只身一人来到这座南方的海岸小镇--阿拉巴马州的蓝铃镇。让Zoe惊讶的是,Harley已经去世了,但却将诊所的一半所有权以遗嘱的方式送给了她。Zoe为南方人的好客所感动,可事情真是这样吗?