domenica 25 gennaio 2015

Perception season 1

I liked it very much. Unfortunately there are only ten episodes, but it's a good series and I hope to see more of it.
Neuropsychiatrist Daniel Pierce is very nice and I like him very much :-) Kelly Rowan plays Natalie, and Arjay Smith plays Max. What kind of name is Arjay?? Someone wanted to name him R.J. maybe??
Kate (Rachel Leigh Cook) is an Fbi agent. I'm not particularly fond of her but she's okay.
And, there is LeVar Burton playing Paul :-)
In my dvds there are no titles, so I'm taking those from Imdb .com, assuming they must be the right ones.
ep 1 - Pilot - Daniel replies to a girl his student, after she invited him for a coffee, that since coffee must be code for sex and they are teacher and student, he'd better decline. Oh God...
When a hallucination told him " I almost had you" I was surprised, because I wasn't yet used to all his hallucinations, so obviously I fell for it.  All these hallucinations help him because they are created by his brain meaning his mind wants to tell him something.
ep 2 - Faces - Daniel doesn't want Kate to know about his hallucinations because "I don't want Kate to think I'm bonkers" yeah, good try. The plot was funny, the idea of a face-blind man and a wife, her cousin pretending to be her to stop him from beating her and again said cousin with a brunette wig pretending to be a stranger woman to have an affair with him and take all his money before getting killed by him, that is.
It was nice and clever to turn one of the oldest plot into some new fun :-)
ep 3 - 86'd - We meet Kate's dad, learn that she's married with Donnie but soon-to-be divorced, and that "Wait, I just remembered. I met you parents' night. Katie's freshman year. You're the professor she had the big crsh on the whole time she was in college" :lol: Good job, dad, well done. It was fun, but now I guess they'll play with them for a couple of seasons or more and then put them together, and they always do. It's textbook, if there's a male and a female protagonist they must end up together... yeuch, how boring and very annoying this is.
The Date Night Killer stopped killing in '86 because he got married, but now his wife's dead so he kills again, but they catch him. Of course they do.
There's Armin Shimerman playing Dr Ryan Cutler.
ep 4 - Cipher - Daniel finds a secret code in a letter sent to a newspaper, and soon there's the first body, while his assistant goes on strike because he's rude and disrespectful. Daniel's book is entitled "The mind. Knowing the unknowable"
ep 5 - Messenger - A dead junkie had joined a cult in which a kid named Kyle claims to talk to God. Daniel realises that  Kyle hears God's voice because he has a brain tumor. When the murderer pushes him down the stairs the doctor finds it and operate on him, saving him. He was actually sincere, this kid and his family, but the school in Afghanistan he thought he was funding was a fake, created by the murderer to get the money.
ep 6 - Lovesick - A doctor cures patients of homosexuality saying it is a neurological disease, all because he's in denial being him gay himself, until he gets killed because of it. It's really an absurd world, if you think that there's really people out there believing such stupid things... I will never understand why people can't live and let live, why they have to judge and hate so much for whatever reason they can find... it's really beyond me...
ep 7 - Nemesis - Kate has a new boss, a woman. A nice judge's life is threatened but Daniel is sure that her stalker is a mentally ill guy who sees her as someone to protect, someone important. When she's killed, Daniel is the only one that doesn't believe he did it.
ep 8 - Kilimanjaro - Daniel has the hallucination of a boy that turns out to be himself younger, and he didn't recognise him. He was from before he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
He wrote seven books?? wow.
A girl is killed at Daniel's school, and I'm so sorry it wasn't that stupid spoiled brat of a prince because I couldn't stand him while I kinda liked the girl who did it. Daniel advice a student to stop playing football and helps him cope with it telling him of when everything changed for him too "all my dreams went out of the window" "what did you do?" "I found a new dream"  ...beautiful...
Kate breaks up with that new handsome professor, who was actually very nice and again they hint at Kate and Daniel as a couple... booooring.
ep 9 - Shadow - Daniel is seeing JFK in his hallucinations... anyway.
Daniel has a secret meeting with a guy that gets killed in front  of him, only Kate can't find a body or any evidence that what he's saying is true. Daniel starts investigating to uncover a conspiracy but is arrested for the murder! That is, until he realises it was all a big hallucination when Max brings him back to reality in their own house. The whole investigation was an hallucination. It had seemed strange to me that he would kiss Kate so early in the series !! I'm also glad it wasn't real because I didn't want Kate's partner to be a traitor.
Daniel goes to be hospitalised; he never wanted to take his medicines, afraid of losing who he is, and also of never see again the blond woman he always hallucinates about.
ep 10 - Light - In hospital, Daniel sees Natalie and thinks he's hallucinating again, despite two days of medicines, but Max tells him she's real. She's Dr Caroline Newsome. It turns out that he saw her many years ago: he thought he talked to her, had a relationship, but that was the start of his condition. He never talked to her.
Now he's back on the case, but unable to talk to Natalie because of the meds, he goes to talk to Caroline :-) It was lovely :-) Thanks to Daniel they arrest the murderer before she becomes the new senator :-)
Caroline thinks she can't be his psychiatrist anymore, but she wants to be his friend, and the end is very nice: his voice saying "sometimes reality is not so bad" while we see Max walking and smiling after seeing him on a bench talking to Caroline. Beautiful image and ending.

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