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HBO series makes bad

For some time I hear this a lot as part of "me is that I only see the HBO series", as a note of distinction to stand out from the mob who enjoys Brothers and Sisters, How I met your mother and other great products that TV style white label Carrefour. "Have you seen The Tudors? It is magnificent! If all that makes HBO ... "With arguments like these, where the point is the label, there is little point commenting that the series starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a vintage piece that is not worth so much fuss made ​​the slipstream of the great Rome which, incidentally, did issue and produced HBO. In a display of precision unnecessary, you loose your partner: "The Tudors is not issued on HBO but on Showtime." Typically, the posh TV is facing you, with all the hatred in the world, as if he'd started the crocodile polo.

No one is infallible. Down with the axiom that HBO is the Midas of quality on TV: I invite you to respectable remember (via Youtube) called Lucky Louie that tacky, boorish and stale sitcom where they are, we suffered a couple of summers and whose only qualification was that only lasted half an hour. That's a lot more than I can say about The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: nothing more and nothing less than 109 minutes of premiere was the most Molona hulled chains Time Warner late on Sunday 29 March. Directed by Anthony Minghella (The English Patient), produced by Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa) and written by Richard Curtis (Love Actually), ie, all labels first, this new series is inspired by a crime novels written by Alexander McCall Smith (no, I did not know who was this man until I saw the series), a Scottish intellectual combined with three other Palestinian scarf as a shirt Burberry: the touch of alternative market just enough to be supercool.

And yet, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is nothing but a very bad series full of good intentions. It tells the story of Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's a girl who decides to use inheritance from his father to do something useful. In a country where life expectancy is fifty years and almost 40% of the population is infected with HIV, could have given him Precious to mount an NGO but no, she believes that what people are asking Gaborone screaming is a detective agency run by a woman. Against all odds will start raining cases: horned, missing persons, fraud, conflicts could arise in Harlem Like in Des Moines or in Madrid, and that Jessica Fletcher solve Africa because, because "women look at things to that men do not give importance "... Being a procedural drama (type series Cold Case, CSI or Bones, which resolves a case-by-chapter) The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency gets the worst of the genre, the superficial of his characters, and you miss the fun, the procedure (procedure), to untangle the skein. Determined to get a nice feminist allegation comes a childish fable so boring that would nod to the Blue House Bear. This new series is a manual outdated Citizenship Education, where all that glitters is the wonderful smile Jill Scott, the protagonist, a dazzling teeth that is so out of place in a village in southern Africa and is misplaced The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency on HBO, whose seal of this new release will look like a saint two pistols.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency airs every Sunday at 20.00 hours on the U.S. East Coast on HBO.