Karen and I recently started watching Damages.  Season one is now complete and we have moved on to Season two.  Wow.  This show rocks.  So far I can honestly say it’s one of the best television shows I’ve ever watched.  From writing to directing to acting to cinematography… stellar.  Glenn Close absolutely rocks as Patty Hewes, the terrible, vulnerable, brilliant, angry, sliding right on the edge of total psycho attorney who rules the NY legal scene.  She is powerful, ruthless, and relentless.  You’d expect nothing less of Glenn Close.  She is amazing.  The rest of the cast, however, is equally good.  Ted Danson, Michael Nouri, Rose Byrne, Tate Donovan, Anastasia Griffith, Zeljko Ivanek, Timothy Olyphant, William Hurt… just to name a few.  They would have to be for this to work.  The story line is engrossing, the writing moving it along as it dips here and there unexpectedly.  It kept us guessing who done it until the end.  We thought we knew… but… maybe.  We ended up changing our minds a couple of times.  Talking it through, wondering.  That’s good writing.

This is good.  Really good.  Watch it.  If you love intrigue, murder mysteries, great filming, and fine fine television, you should check it out.