Seven minutes into the pilot of Blood & Treasure, the new TV series by CBS, I stopped laughing and decided that life’s too short to waste time with such irritatingly cliched writing.
And it’s a pity, really, because there’s obviously money backing the series, that was shot on location in a number of places, including my hometown of Turin, but the writing is so abysmal, I really couldn’t make it.
I wanted to, because at one point I thought it might be fun to do a post on Karavansara. I went back and restarted it.
I stopped watching 11 minutes in.
Let’s see what we are talking about…
An antiquities expert teams up with an art thief to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks using stolen artifacts.
Oh, yes, fair warning: here be SPOILERS.
True, I’m gonna spoil only the first ten minutes of the pilot, and a lot of the things you already saw in the trailer, but…
S P O I L E R S!!
Claire went for a historical thriller, The Tournament, by Matthew Reilly. I’ve long been a fan of Reilly’s breakneck-paced, higly-ballistic techno-thrillers, and this unexpected foray of the Australian author in a very different genre and setting intrigues me a lot. Espionage, the game of chess, intrigue and seduction, sounds like my sort of adventure all right. And the novel is set in Constantinople, which is an extra bonus.
My brother went for something completely different: a book about Taoist Poetry in the T’ang era (618-907 AD).
Karavansara 