Again, sorry for stepping on the LA Times genre watcher, but I wanted to point out this tv review of New Amsterdam, if onl for this paragraph -- "I want to like "New Amsterdam," I do, I do, I do. The idea of a homicide detective who is really a Dutch colonist/soldier granted immortality by the witchy native girl whose life he saved in 1642? Catnip to a history-geek girl with a predilection for brooding, troubled men and novels in which Sherlock Holmes runs into Sigmund Freud or Edgar Allan Poe. (Do you hear me, fellow devotees of "House," "Life" and "In Treatment"?)"
Is this guy a perfect candidate for Wold Newton status or what?
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Wow it sounds like the show has a lot of promise, but from reading the review it looks like they managed to mess that up. I agree in that if they were to make a plot line about his immortality as a result of his need to find his one true love--they shouldn't have shown that in the pilot. Anyway, the show sounds like it was trying to do too much all at once instead of revealing important pieces little by little to keep viewers interested and hooked. Also some elements are kind of cliche, such as Amsterdam being "the best cop in the department, a maverick, an iconoclast, a lone wolf."
Ah well. This might have made a good movie though...
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