LOFTY MOTIVES, BY-THE-NUMBERS EXECUTION.Byline: David Kronke TV Critic QUICK QUIZ: Complete the following exchange of dialogue: High-priced prostitute: ``I bet your hourly rate is more than mine.'' Attorney: ``But I have years of training and I have some very special skills.'' If you can dash off the line that comes next (answer at the end of the review), you, too, could write for ``Murder in Mind,'' a BBC America BBC America is an American television network, owned and operated by BBC Worldwide, which was launched on March 29, 1998, available on both cable and satellite. It is one of two BBC branded channels broadcast in the United States, the other being global news channel, BBC World. anthology series An anthology series is a radio or television series that has a different story and a different set of characters in every episode. Typically, the only constant is the host, who introduces and concludes each program. returning tonight that examines crimes from the killer's point of view. But that doesn't necessarily mean that you can write good scripts. ``Murder in Mind'' suggests it is unique in its focus on the criminal and not the cop, which is something ``Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' posits that it does but not really, and something much of the whole film noir film noir (French; “dark film”) Film genre that offers dark or fatalistic interpretations of reality. The term is applied to U.S. films of the late 1940s and early '50s that often portrayed a seamy or criminal underworld and cynical characters. genre wallowed in. Even so, it'd help if the stories weren't so predictably convoluted convoluted /con·vo·lut·ed/ (kon?vo-lldbomact´ed) rolled together or coiled. . Tonight, an employee smitten smit·ten v. A past participle of smite. smitten Verb a past participle of smite Adjective deeply affected by love (for) Adj. 1. with her boss frames his wife for murder; in a second episode, a mild-mannered man seeks revenge after he discovers his wife's affair. Affairs figure in a lot of these scenarios, but the storytelling is belabored - there's much padding with extended shots of cars and pedestrians ambling This article is about the four-beat intermediate gaits of horses. For more information on how horses move, see Horse gait. The term Amble or Ambling is used to describe a number of four-beat intermediate gaits of horses. not so urgently to their destinations - and, as with those shots, you can see where the stories are going long before they get there. You probably expect a little more from your lurid murder mysteries. And, to quote the high-priced prostitute's answer: ``So do I.'' MURDER IN MIND - Two stars What: Anthology drama series tracing the bad behavior of sundry killers. Where: BBC America. When: 6 and 9 p.m. Mondays, beginning today. In a nutshell: Predictably convoluted yarns. |
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