Anyone looking forward to this? American version of an acclaimed British show. Complicated thoughtful sometimes bleak method powerhouse Harvey Keitel on TV. I will certainly be tuning in!

I will be tuning in for Jason O'Marra, WOWSA, is he a hottie or what?

I'll check it out. The local TV reviewer said they did a decent job of converting it to American TV.

Plus, Harvey Keitel. Don't know why but, yes, Harvey Keitel!

(Though he'd have to take a back seat to Tommy Lee Jones, if it came to that.)

I 2nd another WOWSA here! Hoowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

I remember him when he did a cameo on The Closer a few years back as a serial killer that got off. He was so sexy and dangerous.

I have to admit I'm not a big Harvey Keitel fan here. But I will be watching this show. Didn't know there was a Brit T.V. show for this one. I did read that it was originally slated for L.A. the show but then changed to the NYC setting.

It will be interesting to watch.

I think Whoopi Goldberg is doing a cameo on this show as a black power type with a huge afro, wearing a dashiki. She said that is how she really used to look in the seventies.

Here is my prediction. As long as the series is successful, he will be stuck in 1973. Then on the last few episodes, he will awaken but will have fallen in love with that blonde cop, who will turn out to be his shrink in 2008.

I adored the original, sobbed at the end. It was only two series as the writer didn't want to ruin it.
So many boards with so many theories as what was really going on.

Gene Hunt became a cult figure, The Gene Genie as he calls himself.

There is actually another series from the same writer set in the 80's Ashes To Ashes with a woman going back. Don't really like it as much.

So is Sam mad, dead, in a coma or has he really travelled back in time?

Interesting program! Glad to know of the love for and power of the original. Wow, Donna255! Luckily not spoiled by having read or heard about it. Much enjoyed the portrayal of 73, the colour scheme, the tenuous connection to the present / a realm that knows his predicament through devices.
Will give my review of Harvey Keitel as simply that I was imagining other people in the role much of the time, like Ed Asner.
Interesting that you say back seat to TLJ, Hoos! I don't really know TLJ's work - perhaps Coal Miner's Daughter on tv and that might well be it. In what way a back seat? Are there any Keitel roles you could imagine and would rather see Jones in? I don't know Men in Black but can imagine HK, in his Mr White getup, in the poster, at least.

Well I watched it last night and was very disappointed. And I love HK and the new guy is a looker.

But the story didn't make no kinda sense!! And some of it was just dopey. Wouldn't someone have called the former employer of new-guy and reported that he, apparently, was nuts?

HK and new-guy jumping in perfect unison over the desk? WTF?

Dopey dialogue - "Do we have a warrant?" "Here's your warrant!" (HK kicks in door) - oh, THAT'S ORIGINAL! Who wrote this, a 10-year-old? Also, HK playing a Noo Yawk tough guy? Also something we've NEEEEVER seen before... (and did he get a face lift? Discuss.)

Another dopey line (this one also from HK): "We collar the baddies to keep this island safe." Uhhh, NO REAL NYC COP HAS EVER SAID ANYTHING LIKE THAT, EVER. And especially not to another cop. New Yorkers do not refer to Manhattan as "this island". Why? Because they just don't,and they didn't in 1973! Four out of the five boroughs are on islands, fer cryin' out loud, plus there are a bunch of other little islands around (including Roosevelt, Rikers, Liberty, Ellis, Coney - and yes I know that Coney Island is no longer a literal island). When New Yorkers say "the island" they are referring to...LONG ISLAND. NOT Manhattan. It's just inexcusably ignint, and sloppy research if you ask me.

Michael Imperioli's porn-stache was fun, no? Gotta love that.

The girl cop? Why was she in new-guy's apartment and why did she unpack his stuff? WTF? So convenient to the story! And why would she just believe his BS about coming from 2008? No one would take that seriously for a minute.

On this guy's second day in his new job he finds the 2008 bad guy (who is a child of course) and has a big dopey fake conversation with him. WHAT?!?!? On his second bleeping day?!?!?!? And what kid would say to a stranger, "Nothing scares Willy. Everything scares me." Who talks like that to a stranger and a stranger with a gun in his hand at that?

This seems like just an excuse for some period clothes, music, cars, TV shows & commercials, (they were all kinda groovy, I will admit) and the cutesy ways he is in contact with 2008 (via the TV and radio). I also did like how the scenes in 1973 were kinda greenish-tinted - that was pretty cool, I guess.

Worst of all: when new-guy sees the World Trade Center towers back where they were (and under construction?? I couldn't tell) and says, "No way". No New Yorker (or anyone else, prolly) would look up at the towers after 9/11 and say "No way"; he or she would just stare at it in confusion and disbelief.

I had high hopes for this show, but unless it gets dramatically better in a hurry I am going to find something else to do on Thursday nights. Bah!

He looked as ugly as he always has.

The music was the best part of this show. I probably won't watch it again. I always watch the new, one-hour network shows once and then that's it.

I remember the same Closer episode Rufus!!! Was he hot, or what? I had to immediately look him up and realized that he is originally Irish! I am part Irish myself! He was so good on The Closer that I have lusted after his career ever since then.




I also saw Harvey Keitel 'nekkid' in The Piano, nothing much to write home about......

Yeah, Chard, I never saw Jason before on T.V. before his "The Closer" appearance. He was really good as the "seething below the surface" pyscho on there. I loved his banter with Kyra on that show. He's just so good looking. Beautiful blue eyes and just gorgeous, what else can one say?

Oh and I finally saw the Piano a few weeks back, a very good film. Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin were wonderful and damn, I guess HK has no problem with nudity! He was in pretty good shape, I have to admit and thought, "Damn, I hope I look that good naked later in life!" LOL!!!!

In The Bad Lieutenant, doesn't Keitel have a frontal nudity scene where he masturbates in front of a woman whose car he's stopped? That would be worth the price of admission or, in this case, DVD rental. Remind me to rent it someday...

I can't like Harvey Keitel anymore since I saw The Piano at the tender age of 15. Still can't watch him on TV or in movies without thinking of that one scene.

That'll teach you to see an R rated film when you are underage!

Hehehe... I remember that scene in The Piano... now, I love Harvey Keitel as an actor, but I could have gone all day without seeing a full frontal shot of his "business"...

I hear ya! I don't much care for Harvey Keitel, but I do love this show. The music alone brings back so many memories of that era. I also love the fact that they know nothing about cellphones, etc. I like Michael Imperioli in anything as an actor.

PerfumeMe!!!!!! Shame on you girl, you would want to see that????

Harvey Keitel, good heavens, NO!!!