Bloody. Hell.
One of the greatest British TV shows ever made is back on American television and will hopefully find a brand new audience with its fantastic writing, spooky ambience, and some of the most sexual characters ever created.
Considered to be the British answer to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed, Hex premiered on Britain's SkyOne in the Fall of 2004 with a five episode first series starring Christina Cole (What A Girl Wants, The Deaths of Ian Stone) as Cassie Hughes, our heroine; Jemima Rooper (The Black Dahlia) as Cassie's lesbian best friend, Thelma Bates and Michael Fassbender (300, Inglorious Basterds) as the seductive, yet evil fallen angel, Azazeal.
The show mixed dark humor with an eerie atmosphere that only the UK can offer and sexual overtones that drives the motivation of most of the show's primary characters. What Buffy did with female empowerment, Hex does the same with repressed sexual identity,...
One of the greatest British TV shows ever made is back on American television and will hopefully find a brand new audience with its fantastic writing, spooky ambience, and some of the most sexual characters ever created.
Considered to be the British answer to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed, Hex premiered on Britain's SkyOne in the Fall of 2004 with a five episode first series starring Christina Cole (What A Girl Wants, The Deaths of Ian Stone) as Cassie Hughes, our heroine; Jemima Rooper (The Black Dahlia) as Cassie's lesbian best friend, Thelma Bates and Michael Fassbender (300, Inglorious Basterds) as the seductive, yet evil fallen angel, Azazeal.
The show mixed dark humor with an eerie atmosphere that only the UK can offer and sexual overtones that drives the motivation of most of the show's primary characters. What Buffy did with female empowerment, Hex does the same with repressed sexual identity,...
- 9/17/2009
- by theanti-critic
- TVovermind.com
Matthew Dunster will direct the Globe's first full-scale production of Troilus and Cressida this summer, featuring Olivier Award-winner Matthew Kelly as Pandarus, with Laura Pyper and Paul Stocker as the ill fated lovers Troilus and Cressida. Other casting includes Jamie Ballard as Ulysses and Paul Hunter as Thersites. Set during the latter years of the Trojan War, Shakespeare fills his ancient tale with savage comedy, great passion and vivid characters.
- 7/7/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Matthew Dunster will direct the Globe's first full-scale production of Troilus and Cressida this summer, featuring Olivier Award-winner Matthew Kelly as Pandarus, with Laura Pyper and Paul Stocker as the ill fated lovers Troilus and Cressida. Other casting includes Jamie Ballard as Ulysses and Paul Hunter as Thersites. Set during the latter years of the Trojan War, Shakespeare fills his ancient tale with savage comedy, great passion and vivid characters.
- 6/1/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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