A new take on The Andromeda Strain
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- May
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I’ll post more after watching Part II tonight, but I wanted to encourage anyone who didn’t catch Part I of A&E’s remake of The Andromeda Strain (based on the Michael Crichton book) to start watching at 7 tonight (Part I is being reshown then, immediately before Part II, which begins at 9 p.m.).
The miniseries severely remakes and updates the concept — a mysterious satellite crashes on Earth and soon after people start dying in droves — to bring it into our time frame (the post-Gulf War, War on Terror era).
I must admit I don’t recall much of the book or of the original movie, but I’ve vowed not to look up either until after watching tonight’s finale to the miniseris because it’s really quite good.
A&E went all out and got some good TV-star power: Andre Braugher (Homicide: Life on the Street, Gideon’s Crossing), Daniel Dae Kim (Lost), Viola Davis (Traveler), Eric McCormack (Will & Grace), Ricky Schroeder (if you don’t know who he is, why are you reading a TV blog?), Christa Miller (Scrubs, The Drew Carey Show) and the production values are lookin’ pretty decent.
I’m interested in what others think, and I’d encourage those watching and commenting to consider the miniseries separate from the original book and movie. I think they’ve done a pretty good job so far and am intrigued by what will happen tonight.
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on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 5:40 pm by Amy Vernon.
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