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neglet
04-25-2006, 09:45 AM
Anyone else been watching this short-run series? It stars Andre Braugher as a con who's trying to pull off one last big score; at the same time his wife has been killed and he's trying to deal with his cranky teenage stepdaughter. Oh, and a dirty cop and the Chinese mob are after him. I've seen the first four episodes (episode 5 airs tonight, and the finale is next week), and this is a really excellent show--very intense, and Braugher is absolutely wonderful.

I love the idea of the six-part series, because it doesn't require a huge investment of time like a new network show might involve (or a miniseries over a few nights), but we get more detail than in a two-hour movie. It will be interesting to see if they extend it into a more regular series, as USA did with "The 4400."

KingVoyeur
04-25-2006, 10:07 AM
I haven't seen the series, but coincidentally, Parry Shen (Better Luck Tomorrow), one of the actors in Thief, came to speak to a group of students at the school district I work for last Fri. I may check it out to see how good of an actor he really is.