Here it is, a post just to begin this new year saying this blog is dead, but it isn't really!
I've just finished the second season of Salvation.
According to Wikipedia Salvation is an “American suspense drama television series”. One thing is undoubtful: it's American, and by “American” I don't mean Canada, Estados Unidos Mexicanos, or any of the South American (the continent) countries. I mean just this:
In fact it is full of all the classical USA rhetoric, stereotypes, characters, and so forth. Almost everything's already seen; abuse of (cheap) suspense and engaging techniques — like when a character acts in a so dumb way just to cause a problem to be fixed…1
Nonetheless everything is also well packaged (as often it happens with this kind of show) and they keep a good pace; indeed I had to skip over filler moments or scenes, among which I include scenes that supposedly should give psychological complexity to the characters or spice conflicts up a bit, but to me they were boring commonplaces or annoying overloaded ideological speeches/“ruminations”.
Beware: there's a big SPOILER ALERT here… but in between there are other spoiler alerts (with details you can choose to reveal).
