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I took my first shower in one hundred and thirty-four days yesterday. Oh, bliss. You don't know how good it feels to be clean until you haven't been clean for a while, and then you wonder how you ever endured being dirty. My hair has bounce and shine and my skin has a radiant glow, and I feel better about myself. The week to get here was a stressful, aggravating pain in the ass, but the end result was worth it. Simple dignity matters.
I think I've found a new show. Haven is ostensibly based on The Colorado Kid by Stephen King, but aside from the title, the show bears no resemblance whatsoever to the novella on which it is purportedly based. It's set in the small Maine town of Haven, which is peopled with a cast of quirky characters who each harbor secrets. Some of these secrets are dark and dangerous, steeped in the insular connections and unspoken history of the town, and trouble befalls those who dig too deeply.
The conceit of the show is simple: a plucky FBI agent is sent to Haven on a fugitive recovery case and becomes embroiled in a series of unexplained, paranormal events that have turned the quiet town upside down. The fugitive in question is already dead, victim of an impossible fall. There's no reason for Agent Parker to stay, but before she can leave, she uncovers a tantalizing hint of her own mysterious past--a photo of a woman who could be her mother. Intrigued and desperate to uncover her own truth, she agrees to take a job as town constable and teams up with Detective Nathan Wuornos, son of the police chief and a man with a mystery of his own. Together, they team up to discover the link between an unsolved thirty-year-old death and the spate of supernatural events that threaten to destroy the town.
It's still trying to find its sea legs and decide what it wants to be and very much in danger of devolving into a morass of Plucky Citified Outsider Runs Roughshod Over Local Yokels in Pursuit of the Truth, but it has the potential to become the next The X-Files, or, perhaps less grand in scope, Warehouse 13. Parker and Wuornos have real chemistry, and not just of the sexual stripe, though that is certainly on the table. They're laying the groundwork for a solid friendship as well, and I'm optimistic and eager to see how the show develops.
As an added bonus, the actor who portrays Nathan Wuornos bears a strong resemblance to Eddie Cahill.
Behold:
See?
All right. Back to the smut wagon.
I think I've found a new show. Haven is ostensibly based on The Colorado Kid by Stephen King, but aside from the title, the show bears no resemblance whatsoever to the novella on which it is purportedly based. It's set in the small Maine town of Haven, which is peopled with a cast of quirky characters who each harbor secrets. Some of these secrets are dark and dangerous, steeped in the insular connections and unspoken history of the town, and trouble befalls those who dig too deeply.
The conceit of the show is simple: a plucky FBI agent is sent to Haven on a fugitive recovery case and becomes embroiled in a series of unexplained, paranormal events that have turned the quiet town upside down. The fugitive in question is already dead, victim of an impossible fall. There's no reason for Agent Parker to stay, but before she can leave, she uncovers a tantalizing hint of her own mysterious past--a photo of a woman who could be her mother. Intrigued and desperate to uncover her own truth, she agrees to take a job as town constable and teams up with Detective Nathan Wuornos, son of the police chief and a man with a mystery of his own. Together, they team up to discover the link between an unsolved thirty-year-old death and the spate of supernatural events that threaten to destroy the town.
It's still trying to find its sea legs and decide what it wants to be and very much in danger of devolving into a morass of Plucky Citified Outsider Runs Roughshod Over Local Yokels in Pursuit of the Truth, but it has the potential to become the next The X-Files, or, perhaps less grand in scope, Warehouse 13. Parker and Wuornos have real chemistry, and not just of the sexual stripe, though that is certainly on the table. They're laying the groundwork for a solid friendship as well, and I'm optimistic and eager to see how the show develops.
As an added bonus, the actor who portrays Nathan Wuornos bears a strong resemblance to Eddie Cahill.
Behold:
See?
All right. Back to the smut wagon.
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