Damages is the BBC's latest US acquisition which seems to be getting the sole high(ish) profile slot on BBC1 - just after the news at about 10.20pm on Sunday evenings.
Originating earlier last year on US cable channel FX which is home to Rescue Me, The Shield, and Nip/Tuck, you've got to be hopeful about this new series. Glenn Close stars at Patty Hewes a formidable New York lawyer who takes on big business in multi-million lawsuits. This series, which is to be set around a single case, sees her firm take on Ted Danson's Arthur Frobisher. Frobisher, we learn, has persuaded his employees to buy stock in his company, before selling out himself just ahead of a massive collapse thus seeing him clear, but his employees losing out.
We follow the case through the eyes of Ellen Parsons, who we see in the first scene emerging from an elevator covered in blood, rushing out into the New York streets. We flash back six months, to follow her as she turns down a good job at another firm before joining Hewes' company.
But all is not as it seems, with Parsons' sister being seemingly involved in the case, and an apparent firing not quite being what it seems. Indeed, it looks as though Hewes is quite as devious and evil as her apparent nemesis in Danson's character.
How this plays out over 13 episodes, I don't yet know, but I'll be there for the other 12. It's not quite as confusing as Nancy Banks-Smith has it. She obviously hasn't noticed the graininess of the flash-forwards that are inserted into the storyline indicating the two different timelines.
Incidentally, you can catch up via the BBC's iPlayer, so here a link to the first episode if you didn't see it.
Posted by adambowie at January 7, 2008 10:50 AM