Stayed up late watching the new series called Arrow online. For those who don't know, it's an American show based around the DC Comics character The Green Arrow.
Yes, it steals from other shows and films - particularly Lost, Dynasty and Batman Begins and the main lead looks a bit of a male model douche, but it's actually really, really brilliant.
It shouldn't work as a show, there is a lot of cheese and soap opera type stuff in there but then it does weird things to bring you back in. The action scenes are shot really well, loads of people get killed with arrows, his family and romantic relationships are really screwed up, it's filmed in Canada so there is a variation in the weather and it's directed by David Nutter, who did some of the best X Files episodes.
Most bizarrely of all, John Barrowman is in it and for once, he comes across as an actor and not a scenery chewing pantomime dame.
It's rare that a first series of a new drama pulls me in straight away, but I am really loving Arrow. Recommended.
