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TV’s Cutest I Love You Scenes – Case Histories starring Jason Isaacs

Posted on May 13, 2012 Written by ripitup

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Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie in BBC's Case Histories
Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie in BBC's Case Histories. Image via fimaffinity.com

Case Histories is a strangely compelling British TV series starring Jason Isaacs, and you can find the plot, review and pictures here on my Case Histories review.

This post is just about two scenes in the 6th (and last) episode of season 1. It’ll be a minor spoiler as the scenes are about the romantic life of the lead character Jackson Brodie. I’m saying minor, because Case Histories focuses a lot more on Jackson’s cases, his past traumas and his relationship with his daughter.

Jason Isaacs with his on-screen daughter, Case Histories
Jason Isaacs with his on-screen daughter, Case Histories. Image via node2.bbcimg.uk

And a note to non-watchers, you can still enjoy the scene, but you should check out the review to learn about Brodie, and the woman in question. And of course any line is better if you hear it from Jason Isaacs.

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In the beginning of episode 6, Jackson Brodie (Jason Isaacs) is in the hospital being taken to the emergency room after his attempts to save an old lady almost killed him.

Jackson Brodie (Jason Isaacs) is in the hospital again, visited by Louise (Amanda Abbington). They took his shirt off again:d. Image via barefilms.co.uk

 

When his old time cop friend Louise (Amanda Abbington) hears about the accident, she rushes to see him. Jackson is only half aware of things, and he blurts out:

“Bloody hell, you’re beautiful (she attributes this to the head blow, but he adds:) I love you”.

Of course it is not even clear if Jackson is aware that he is saying this to Louise, and it is hard to tell whether Louise is more scared of it being true or being false. So she rushes out of the hospital before Jackson can get completely conscious.

All through the series, Louise is trying to balance Jackson’s constant help requests (always valid- his efforts either save someone, solve a case or both) and her ungrateful teenage son, and this time has to digest Jason’s outburst and whether to take it seriously.

When Louise is alone and a little drunk, she calls Jackson’s cell, but he is nowhere to be found so she yells at him for not being  around after saying something like that- but she doesn’t tell him what is. Jackson can’t figure out what the hell she means, so the minute he wraps up his case, he goes to Louise’s house.

It’s Christmas morning, and she answers the door while her son is in the living room.

(And yes, we have been suspecting that Louise had a massive crush on Brodie, if not more – but Jackson was always too busy drowning in his or other people’s sorrows, and his only relationships, or attempts at relationships, have been initiated by women who threw themselves at him.  And since he never really called Louise apart from asking for help, and didn’t take her up on the offer of getting drunk together (in his defense, he was depressed about his daughter moving to New Zealand for a year.), I suspected Jackson didn’t see Louise like that. I was glad to be wrong : ) )

Louise: What did you want?

Jackson: I was just wondering.

Louise: About?

Jackson: The hospital. What I said to you.

Louise: It was nothing. Nothing important anyway.

Jackson: If it’s not important, what was it?

Louise: You were rambling. You told me you loved me.

Jackson takes that in, but it only takes a second.

Jackson: Good. That’s about right then.

Louise is part shocked, part happy, part numb.

Louise: OK.

Jackson: Is it?

Louise smiles and so does Jackson.

Jackson: OK.

Louise: Do you want to come in?

Jackson: We’ve got time. I don’t want to interrupt anything.

Louise: You are always interrupting something, Jackson.

He half-smiles and leaves as Louise says Merry Christmas.

After this scene, we see Jackson running again but this time he is not running to get away from things like he used to- and when he stops to take in the scene, there is a smile on his face.

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So no I love you toos, sloppy/awkward/passionate first kisses, or sex scenes. Very British, very cute and just honest.

What’s your favorite TV I love you scene? My pick for funniest or most romantic moment might be different, but I love this one for being so cute, honest and understated.

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Also on Jason Isaacs

Awake starring Jason Isaacs

Case Histories Review and Pictures

Jason Isaacs Trivia

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BBC’s Case Histories starring Jason Isaacs

Posted on May 4, 2012 Written by ripitup

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Jason Isaacs in Case Histories
Jason Isaacs in Case Histories. Image via thetvking.com

 

Case Histories Premise

Jackson Brodie (Jason Isaacs) is a former soldier-turned cop-turned private investigator in Edinburgh. He is extremely dedicated to his cases, especially if it involves finding missing people/children. He often sees and remembers what others do not, and this attention to detail and determination are probably what led him to leave (or to be fired from) the force in the first place.

Other than his assistant Deborah (Zawe Ashton) who would rather have him care more about the money and less about the people, his only other ally is his old friend from the force Louise (Amanda Abbington) who seems to love & dislike Brodie with equal measure and gets sick of the favors he asks all the time. But she knows that he is almost always right, and helping him ends up saving people.

Of course his clients love him for the dedication whereas it drives his ex-wife (Kirsty Mitchell) crazy as he often ends up dragging his little daughter (Millie Innes) with him to the most unlikely places. Even though he might not always be on time and gets scorned by his wife about his parenting skills, Brodie really loves his daughter.

Brodie is like House with two working legs, no painkiller addiction and better social skills. He sees things and connects the dots in a way that nobody else can. However in some ways he might even be more damaged as he has lost his sister in a tragic way when he was very young, and he has suffered another trauma that we are only slowly revealed.

Structure & Style

Some cases stretch to two episodes, but mostly he solves a case every episode which takes about an hour, about 15 minutes more than your typical American drama. Currently there is only one season, and it features 6 episodes.

Sometimes there are funny/fun moments, but comic relief isn’t provided as often as many crime dramas we are used to.

And while the show is certainly compelling, it is also gloomy and depressing.  Yes, we still get to see some action- Brodie beating someone up or someone trying to beat Brodie up or kill him, but the show is a lot more about the drama, tension and the crime.

My few problems with the show are that:

–          His flashbacks about his childhood are given too often, and they seem to take forever.

–          And while these give us huge tips to why he is damaged and where he gets his drive from, but it also wants us to send Brodie to therapy. He sure as hell seems to need it as much as Michael Britten (Jason’s Awake character), if not more.

–          The side/guest characters take too much time. They are not that interesting, and getting to know them doesn’t make me care about them more. If a woman has been missing for 20+ years, this is enough for me to care. I don’t need to spend more time with her sisters to see it is a big deal.

 

Jason Isaacs’s Wife Loves Jackson Brodie

Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie in Case Histories.
Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie in Case Histories. Image via tumblr. com

I heard about Case Histories from a Jason Isaacs interview and being a big fan of Awake, I decided to give it a shot. In the interview, he said that his wife loved Brodie and joked why he couldn’t be more like him. He said that he answered there are no men like Brodie.

Now, from this comment, you’d think Brodie is the awesome hero of a romantic comedy. After watching Case Histories, I’m glad to hear that Jason Isaacs isn’t like Brodie. I don’t think he and his wife would have been together since the late 80s if he were.

Brodie has more baggage than a normal person can handle without therapy, he’s a caring but ultimately strange parent, he would make a horrible boyfriend (as he’d be too busy saving the world) and we’re guessing he did make a lousy husband since he is divorced.

Worth Seeing?

Yes. The acting, the setting, the atmosphere are really good- even though the cases are generally depressing. And this is not Person of Interest – meaning people often hire Brodie after the crime has been committed, and the cops have failed to do much. So even though we rarely get to save people, we are more interested in learning what happened and/or who did it.

Will I be inclined to fast-forward?

You might. Like when the two sisters are constantly bickering on about stuff (episode 1), or the writer having that long chat with his obnoxious friend (episode 3). I didn’t-but that’s because I didn’t want to miss any scenes with Jackson. He is just cool (I guess that was Jason’s wife’s point.)

Not so much for the entertainment but for the intrigue and the emotional intensity

The show aims to engross and intrigue rather than entertain. Some episodes are less dark than the others (I loved the heart attack guy’s wife and how she and Brodie interacted) and have funnier moments, but there is a chance the show might get you sad more often than it makes you smile. And I’m pretty sure that was the creators’ the intention.

Jason Isaacs Had to Go the Gym A Lot

Jason Isaacs as Brodie, shirltess again.
Jason Isaacs as Brodie, shirltess again.Image via tumblr.com.

Well, I’m guessing this is more relevant to his female fans, but he has stated in an interview that he was amused that the screenwriters had his character take his shirt off a lot, and he decided to work out to not to be embarrassed. Well, I think he did a good job of not being embarrassed. Hell, I wish he took it off more often.

 

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Awake TV Series starring Jason Isaacs, Steve Harris, Laura Allen, Dylan Minnette & Wilmer Valderrama

Posted on April 9, 2012 Written by ripitup

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Awake TV Series starring Jason Isaacs, Steve Harris, Laura Allen, Dylan Minnette &Wilmer Valderrama
Awake TV Series starring Jason Isaacs, Steve Harris, Laura Allen, Dylan Minnette &Wilmer Valderrama. Created by Kyle Killen. 2012. Image via nbc.com

 

Awake Plot

LAPD Homicide Detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) has lost either his wife or his son in a car crash. The problem is he doesn’t know which one actually died.

After the accident, Michael finds himself living in two different realities:

In one reality, his son has died, and he and his wife are doing his best to cope with their grief, although they have completely different approaches to the issue. He is in therapy, ordered by the department.

In the other, his wife has died, and he is doing his best to make the process easier for his son. He is in therapy, just with a different shrink. He also has a different partner at his job.

Michael doesn’t have a clue which reality is real. He just knows that when he goes to sleep in one reality, he wakes up in the other. Just like he doesn’t know which is reality, he doesn’t know whether he is sleeping or dreaming. Both shrinks are adamant that they are real, but Michael is skeptical. Besides, he doesn’t really want to let go, or find out. He knows that the only way to have a life with both his son and wife is to keep switching between these two worlds.

As a cop, however, his alternate realities have made him better at his job. Even though his “intuitions” annoy and baffle his two partners (Steve Harris in one, Wilmer Valderrama in the other), he is seeing the crossovers between the cases, and the clues he remembers from one world helps him solve the other case in the other.

While the audience is often as baffled as Michael, we are given some clues here and there to make up our minds, only to be taken the clues away and given others.

A must-watch: Two Alternate Realities – without fantasy or sci-fi

Awake is currently my favorite show. Yes, I’m a big fan of Person of Interest, but frankly I am sick and tired of watching one episode only to wait for three weeks for the others. The same goes for any other show I was unlucky enough to like.

Awake started airing in March, so to air its 13 episodes and finish in May, it doesn’t need to give any breaks. While the ratings aren’t as high as I’d like them to be, I’m excited to have a show that not only has great acting, premise and story lines, but one that doesn’t give a break for a stupid reason every two weeks. Plus, your regular crime show gives you one case to solve. Here you have two different ones, with some connections.

It is also fun and sad to watch Michael getting clues from his wife to make his son happier in one reality…

Give Awake a shot. You won’t regret it. After all how many TV shows have leading characters that as much as they love their minds and jobs, would willingly risk their sanity if it meant that it is the only wat to keep having both family members alive?

Currently rated at 8.4 on IMDB. Frankly, anything under 9 doesn’t do it justice.

Will it get renewed?

Things look pretty bleak as TV show ratings are still measured the old fashioned way, and TV networks haven’t found better ways to make money by anyhing other than TV commercials. What if I’m not a Nielsen household? What if I don’t live in the States? Why wouldn’t I get a say?

I’ll be sad to let this one go. But in a world where Grey’s Anatomy can get 8 seasons (and possibly more) and Supernatural gets 7 (possibly more), I won’t be shocked if Awake doesn’t impress that many people with its originality, intensity and puzzles. Still, I will be grateful that I got to see a great show with Jason Isaacs in the lead.

Still, you can do something to try save the show, such as signing the petition for saving awake here.I did. I also liked the show on Facebook and IMDB just in case. : )

Feel free to spread this post on the net, as more traffic means (apart from me being very happy as a blogger), might show the network that the show has a lot more watchers than they think.

Fun cast note

Yep, one of Britten’s partners (played by Wilmer Valderrama) is really Fez from That 70s Show.

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Sweet November starring Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron

Posted on August 9, 2010 Written by ripitup

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Sweet November starring Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves
Sweet November starring Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves. 2001 remake of 1968’s Sweet November. Image via http://img03.blogcu.com/

Nelson (Keanu Reeves) is an ambitious and selfish young man, with an aspiring career in advertising. He has a somewhat mechanical lifestyle and his most possessed thing is his career. However things are about to change with two nig events: an advertising pitch gone wrong and an eccentric yet beautiful young woman named Sara (Charlize Theron).

Nelson needs to retake a test for his driving license and in an attempt to cheat, he gets Sara in trouble. Annoyed and intrigued, Sara asks for Nelson’s (driving) hand. Nelson thinks Sara is crazy and wants her to stay away. However Sara has much bigger plans for him, as she wants him to be her “November”…

Nelson realizes he has more serious problems than Sara – he ends up getting fired and dumped by his girlfriend (a very small appearance by Gilmore Girls’ Lorelai, Lauren Graham). Sara keeps trying to get his attention and persuade him to spend November with her. Sara thinks that if Nelson moves in with her for a month, she can get his priorities straight and he can just learn to enjoy life. A reluctant Nelson finally gives in to spend a night with Sara, and then one day only. However soon, Nelson is fascinated by how different she is and how she doesn’t care about what others think.  It also helps that she is pretty and well…Nelson is starting to enjoy the new lifestyle where he is not a slave to an office, watch or cell-phone. However things can’t be perfect forever. There will be a chance for Nelson to get his career back. And even if he can resist the temptation of being a high-powered career man again, Sara just seems too fragile and weak at times. And why is she hung up on spending only a month, when Nelson is really falling for her? What is she keeping from him?

Despite being a far-fetched and weird concept, it is also a refreshing and original how Sara chose her next boyfriend for a month and work on him as if he is a project. Well, at least it was original when Herman Raucher wrote the screenplay of Sweet November in 1968 .

Another refreshing thing about the film is the two guys who play her cross-dressing male neighbors as one of them is played by Jason Isaacs  (the evil English soldier from The Patriot) and Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor of Smallville). And obviously, Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves are easy on the eye and Sara’s zest for life and her reluctance to live by other people’s rules is something you can relate to.

But despite loving the actors, and being a romantic, I find it highly unrealistic (yes, unrealistic even for a romantic drama) for a man like Nelson to turn into the boyfriend of any girl’s dreams just in like 2 weeks? Well, how he agreed to Sara’s deal is even a stretch! And even if you decide to pretend you bought into it for the sake of the leads, you are supposed to get over the fact that a woman in Sara’s condition would really bother with troubled men and teach them things, instead of traveling the world or doing things from crazy to-do lists…And don’t even get me started on the ending.

Here come the spoilers. Read at your own peril!

Let me ask you something.  Suppose you are dying but you have found the love of your life. He is also very much in love and he wants to stick by your side no matter what.  Would you let them go away- no wait- would you make them go away so that they can remember you forever as a pretty girl? Seriously, who does that? He already saw her sick, throwing up and well in a hospital bed and without make-up. He never thought she is ugly so what’s the point on giving up on your final days together? Oh well… Drama for drama’s sake…

So I did my best to enjoy Sweet November and I like it to a certain extent. But yes, I’ll be honest. I wouldn’t have watched it, had the leads been different. And despite the actors, a good direction, fun supporting cast and a good soundtrack (featuring Enya, Stevie Nicks, K.D. Lang, Barenaked Ladies, Robbie Williams….), this movie is off the mark. There is something off, something missing. It’s Nelson’s miraculous transition and Sara’s weird last wish and well…It is not a bad movie. It is just not satisfying and if you didn’t see it, you wouldn’t really have missed a thing. Besides, if you want to see a great romantic drama with Keanu Reeves, there is always A Walk in The Clouds and The Lake House– much more charming and solid. And if you do want him and Charlize together, watch The Devil’s Advocate as it comes with an interesting concept, a brilliant ending and well…Al Pacino.

Based on the 1968 screenplay. Written by Paul Yurick and Kurt Voelker. Directed by Pat O’ Connor. Rated  5.9 on IMDB. The original is rated at 6.8.

5/10 from me.

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