Sunday, January 27, 2013

I am watching Damages, which is as good as advertized.  Strong women, great writing, but the thing that stands out the most about it is the use of the flash forward/backs.  They are fluid and really help carry the story and maintain tension.  So often those type of scenes are a) hard to discern from the regular time line scenes, b) so differently shot that they are incongruous with the rest of the show and therefore jog you out of the story or c) are just used as exposition.  Bravo to Damages for excellent execution of an often difficult and usually clumsily employed literary device.

I tried to find some clips that display this deftness, but I could not.  So, here, instead is some gratuitous Timothy Olyphant:

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