K-Ville Debuts Monday
Crescent and star design for New Orleans Police Department by Barbara Smith.
Are you ready for it? Many of us have already seen the pilot online.
Kalypso Homan makes an appearance in the pilot. Reason enough to watch.
There are multiples of car chases and automatic weapons. It prompted me to watch the pilot of Mimai Vice on iTunes, since K-Ville felt like season 1 Miami Vice without the Ferrari Daytona and without the pastels.
The pilot does make reference to the place we’re familiar with, antediluvian New Orleans. Going so far as to put the “recovery” into the theme of the first episode. Colloquialisms abound. Still, it falls short of the television that I want to see: The Wire with free floating asbestos.
K-Ville up against NBC’s Heros. I’ll have to watch Heros on iTunes. K-Ville is party material.
Review coming in are cool. Here is one I found heartening since the author has a sense of the potential of New Orleans as a setting. From Oh, ‘K-Ville,’ can you break out of cop box? by Chuck Barney in the San Jose Mercury News.
Still, it would seem that when you set a drama series in New Orleans, you have an obligation to do right by its people and stand for something. There are obvious opportunities here to go after bigger game, and, at the very least, a need to remind America that this is a city that remains in a world of hurt.
Creator and executive producer Jonathan Lisco apparently feels the weight of that responsibility. As if to appeal to our sympathies, he sent a note to critics saying, “Balancing our goal of making populist entertainment with our desire to be meaningful is no small task.”
I still have a hard time with the name of this television program. At least it is a recognition on the part of the produces that we’re going to be in record for years to come.
- K-Ville – Mark Folse.
- Day 750: K-Ville Liveblogging – Matiri V-R.
- The View from K-Vile – Tim Rupert.
- K-Ville = Mediocre – Adrastos.
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I wish they’d sign the series for another year. I heard that they struck the police station set, though. What would it take to bring this series back to life?