Sunday, December 28, 2008

Slick Brit: Hotel Babylon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Babylon

About three episodes in now on Netflix, and the show has impressed me as doing something very few American entertainment products seem to be able to do, be slick.

By "slick", I mean the show feels like low key good jazz. As a general rule, it draws you in, shows you characters with virtues and foibles without degenerating into farce. That being said, it doesn't mean that the show isn't empty and fluffy. It's a bit like someone made really, really good Musak.

Real slick, no depth, at least not so far.

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