Scarpetta is actually pretty good!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

[MiHale]

1. Thanks, gonna check it out this evening...

Heard it’s already renewed for season 2.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Did not know that!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

3. Honestly, tried it last night... but

couldn't get through much of the first episode. It has a "TABLOID" love of naked corpses and the acting feels juvenile, DESPITE the fine cast.

(It has the stench of a "Ryan Murphy" show, whose "American Horror Story" grew more "tabloid-y" after its first season.)

I had high hopes for Scarpetta because I loved most of the books, so I'm disappointed. A waste of good actors BADLY directed.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. I like it! Especially Jamie Lee Curtis who is an absolute hoot!😁

[some_of_us_are_sane]

5. Jamie Lee Curis is a great actress

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was FLOORED by her performance in the series :The Beast". Now THAT was a superb series.

CORRECTION!! I meant "THE BEAR" not The Beast!! LOL!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. Missed that!

[Skittles]

7. she's great, and she looks realistic

I find Nicole's overly smooth and rigid countenance distracting

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Agree! I think Nicole's character is like that because she had to be the adult in the family. Just my take!

[Skittles]

20. not her demeanor.....

I mean her plastic surgery

[some_of_us_are_sane]

19. Same here, Skittles

Especially as she's gotten older, she seems too focused on her appearance and not so much on performance. She comes across as a woman who can't stop an ' inner runway awareness' of how she looks.

[Skittles]

21. I absolutely agree

I used to think she was a great actress but now, I mean, expressions are a huge part of acting - too often she just looks, I dunno, stone-faced.

[Luciferous]

6. Just finished it. Could have done without

the constant bickering between the sisters but it was decent.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. I think that was an important part of the family dynamic!

[LudwigPastorius]

11. I heard a good review of it, so I might put it in my cue.

This, despite the fact that I'm not a big Nicole Kidman fan, and I think the serial killer/crime procedural genre has been done to bloody death.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. I watched it primarily for Curtis and Baker!

[Intractable]

12. If I watch it, will that make the commercials stop.

It's crazy how often MS-NOW runs the trailers for this and Young Sherlock.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. Only if you watch it backwards with an Eggo on your head!

[underpants]

15. We watched it. My wife is a big Cornwell fan and loved it.

I’ve never read the books but the interactions between her and Marino were good TV. I just watched it as a regular viewer and thought it was really good. We were disappointed that it wasn’t shot in Richmond because that is, I’m told, a big part of the books. Apparently they shot it in Nashville- production companies pretty much just fish around for deals from state boards and will shoot anywhere.

My wife loved it but thought Kidman was a strange choice. I thought the young Scarpetta looked remarkably and distractingly like the WH spokesidiot Leavitt.

Jamie Lee was a hoot. My wife loved when they all cooked because that is also a big part of the books.

I watched the first 3 and my wife finished the season on Friday while she was at home teleworking.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. I haven't read the books either. Most of the negative reviews I've read are from people who are fans of the novels.

[underpants]

17. You are never going to make hardcore fans happy. Just saying.

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[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. 😁