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Anna Staff Posts: 2,716 Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw Who is YOUR Doctor?: 6 (Colin Baker 84-86) Current F1 Driver?: Fernando Alonso	Houdini Sept 7, 2014 20:10:55 GMT Post by Anna on Sept 7, 2014 20:10:55 GMT I had kind of heard about this being a Adrien Brody fan but didn't think it was coming out yet and NEVER thought it was going to be on UK TV let alone on Channel 4! First episode is on right now second episode next Sunday. So far it has been interesting! Houdini is never someone I ever bothered to look into.
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Anna Staff Posts: 2,716 Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw Who is YOUR Doctor?: 6 (Colin Baker 84-86) Current F1 Driver?: Fernando Alonso	Houdini Sept 15, 2014 19:39:51 GMT Post by Anna on Sept 15, 2014 19:39:51 GMT Well whether anyone else watched or not I loved the show. It was a bit too crammed and from what I've since read online not really in any real life order. I think it would have been better to have been spread out in a series instead of a two part drama the way it was. It left me wanting to see more and more of what he did and felt more and more like they were just touching on events and not really giving us enough. It never felt like it was coming to the end of the second episode so when I knew Houdini was about to die I felt a bit deflated to be honest. Still a wonderful series and Adrien Brody was perfect in it. Still want to see him do something like this for Salvador Dali! The cast was brilliant all over though and it was really cool. Plus it made me research Houdini and I'm amazed I never did before!
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Amanda Join a Fellowship... Hi there :) Posts: 1,739 Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff Who is YOUR Doctor?: 9 (Christopher Eccleston 05) Current F1 Driver?: Jenson Button	Houdini Sept 26, 2014 15:53:44 GMT Post by Amanda on Sept 26, 2014 15:53:44 GMT I have it saved on my box to watch it I knew that because it had Adrien Brody in it you'd be watching it but never had a chance to watch! I loved the review on the first episode, are you going to do the review on the second episode?
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Anna Staff Posts: 2,716 Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw Who is YOUR Doctor?: 6 (Colin Baker 84-86) Current F1 Driver?: Fernando Alonso	Houdini Sept 26, 2014 16:17:47 GMT Post by Anna on Sept 26, 2014 16:17:47 GMT Hahahaha d'oh yes I will! I have half the blog completed! I've watched the episode about fifteen times now! I'll finish the blog and post it. You should watch it ASAP, it is a great program/TV Film full of really good actors. It really makes you feel like you are following a living legend about. Forgetting about Brody everything about it is wonderful, when you add in a actor like Brody then you just magnify it by about 100! I still want him to do Dali though haha!
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Rick Staff Posts: 379	Houdini Sept 29, 2014 21:17:59 GMT Post by Rick on Sept 29, 2014 21:17:59 GMT It got a lot of facts wrong and hardly touched on the life of the man. It kind of skimmed it. It also got the order he did his tricks in wrong, the water chamber came after the milk churns for a start. It also seems to have mixed what we really know as fact and what Houdini and his wife said about events instead of sticking to known facts in itself. It was a fun look at a amazing individual but the thing I think is most wrong about it was that it was shown on the History channel and it really wasn't historically correct in any sense. Much more of a dramatised look at what people want to think Houdini was.
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