"The Dresden Files" Birds of a Feather (2007)

Directors:

David Carson
Michael Robison

Writers (WGA):

Robert Hewitt Wolfe (teleplay) &
Hans Beimler (teleplay) ...

TV Series:

"The Dresden Files" (2007)

Original Air Date:

21 January 2007 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Fantasy | Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Dresden takes on the case of a boy who's sure monsters are stalking him, but a misstep by Harry puts everyone at risk.

Plot Keywords:

Torture | Psycho Killer | High Council | Skinned Alive | Skull

Cast

Paul Blackthorne	...	Harry Dresden
Valerie Cruz	...	Lt. Connie Murphy
Terrence Mann	...	Bob / Hrothbert of Bainbridge
Raoul Bhaneja	...	Detective Sid Kirmani
Daniel Kash	...	Justin Morningway
Jonathan Higgins	...	Colm Dresden
Matthew Knight	...	Young Harry Dresden
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dylan Everett	...	Scott Sharp
Heather Hanson	...	Melissa
Natalie Lisinska	...	Laura
Deborah Odell	...	Ms. Whitney Timmons
Earl Pastko
Brandi Ward	...	Sheryl Sharp (as Marie Ward)

Paul Mota

...

Sgt. D. Taylor

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Quotes:

Harry Dresden: Killing someone, walking around in their skin. There's a pretty short list of things that can do that. A list of one. A Skin-walker. You know the worst nightmare you ever had when you were little, the scariest thing you've ever imagined lurking in the closet or under the bed? A Skin-walker is worse.

Interesting introduction to the series

Although "Birds of a Feather" wasn't intended as the opening episode to the series, the episode acts as a good introduction to the likable Harry Dresden character. This fantasy horror series shows great potential and I really hope it attracts the audience numbers it deserves.

The cast are excellent, the series containing some familiar faces such as British actor Paul Blackthorne and "Nip Tuck"'s beautiful Valerie Cruz. Speaking of good looking women, the show also stars gorgeous Natalie Lisinska as Dresden's love interest.

There's real scope for development for this series. I just hope that showing the episodes out of their correct running order isn't going to confuse (and lose) the audience. A real faux pas, to say the least, and one which baffles me.

There's a lot in the show to appeal to UK audiences so, hopefully, the near-simultaneous transmission by Sky will help matters. Certainly, British audiences in the past have saved some significant series which struggled in their first season in the US. Only time will tell.

8 out of 10.