The Fades Season One
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If you don’t have BBC America as part of your cable subscription, you’re really missing out on some fine genre offerings from Across the Pond. Who knew the Brits could do genre fare so well? “Sherlock”, “Doctor Who”, and now, “The Fades”. Essentially a teenage version of “The Ghost Whisperer”/”Medium” crossed with “Supernatural”, but minus the network TV restrictions (sex, violence, blood, and all that good stuff), “The Fades” is an intriguing show that doesn’t really do anything new, but does it well enough anyway that it should develop a following. The show’s Season 1 now arrives on DVD and Blu-ray courtesy of BBC.
If you don’t have BBC America as part of your cable subscription, you’re really missing out on some fine genre offerings from Across the Pond. Who knew the Brits could do genre fare so well? “Sherlock”, “Doctor Who”, and now, “The Fades”. Essentially a teenage version of “The Ghost Whisperer”/”Medium” crossed with “Supernatural”, but minus the network TV restrictions (sex, violence, blood, and all that good stuff), “The Fades” is an intriguing show that doesn’t really do anything new, but does it well enough anyway that it should develop a following. The show’s Season 1 now arrives on DVD and Blu-ray courtesy of BBC.
You’ve heard this one before: awkward, social outcast teen and his best friend discover that he has a secret, world-saving fate that doesn’t involve landing the hot girl or surviving high school. (Or, er, whatever the High School equivalent is in England or thereabouts.) So yeah, nothing too original there, but then again, it’s hard to do original nowadays. The idea, then, is to take what’s already been done and put enough new spins on it that you can call it your own. “The Fades”, I think, accomplishes that.
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