has anyone been watching the new showtime special called

[catmother]

"sleeper cell"?

[NMDemDist2]

1. nope, DH called it "Just another way to keep the sheeple terrified"

how is it?

[smitty]

2. sleeper cell

Letting someone else make up your mind for you?

[NMDemDist2]

14. since DH and I watch the same TV, unless it's something I'm REALLY

interested in, I let him call the shots. Especially since I'm on DU more than I'm watching TV

Snarky much?

oh and BTW welcome to DU :hi:

[catmother]

6. well i think it's great. we had free showtime this weekend and my

husband and i were so impressed that we ordered it.

well i like the story because it shows that not just mid-eastern people are terrorists. one guy is whiter than whiter blonde whose mom is a professor at berkely. another guy -- i think he's french but married to a morrocan woman. and there's an african american guy who is a practising muslim but is an undercover CIA agent.

one of the things that impressed me last night was a mid-eastern islamic scholar who was teaching that islam is a peaceful religion. anyway they killed him, injected him with something that gave him a heart attack. but then at the end, and it was very subtle the way they did it (in fact i had to explain it to my husband) they showed another cleric taking his place. what really impressed me is that we always hear about suicide bombers -- that there are young men waiting to take their place, but that the same goes for the good muslims. you kill one and there's another to take his place.

i think it might open the eyes of those who think that all muslims are terrorists. and there are people who believe this.

[NMDemDist2]

13. cool! since I already have SHO, i'll look for a re-run then n/t

[catmother]

17. i think they're reruning it this weekend. n/t

[catmother]

19. who is DH? n/t

[NMDemDist2]

20. DH=Dear Hubby n/t

[yasmina27]

23. Well, that's debatable

Depending on how well you're getting along at the moment.
Sometimes, to me, it stands for "Dick Head"!}(

[NMDemDist2]

24. close enough...... ROFL n/t

[datadiva]

3. I watched it once

and decided not to watch it again. I am not a sheep.

[catmother]

10. well i am certainly not a sheep. i'm 64 years old and i've been

around. i draw my own conclusions -- no one does that for me.

[endarkenment]

4. I watched one episode

and decided it was only slightly less moronic than "24". And I blew off the last episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm for it. Bummer.

[catmother]

7. don't you have a recorder? buy the way curb your enthusiasm

was great as usual. they'll probably rerun it.

[endarkenment]

12. no I actually try to limit the amount of idiot box I watch

so I have resisted the tivo DVR route. Charter will eventually put it up on their on demand menu and I'll catch it there or in reruns.

[liberalitch]

16. I can't bear to watch larry david.... Although it is terribly funny.

I just hate to watch the stuff that guy does.... remember the time that a colleague picked up his chinese food and gave it back less three shrimp?

[catmother]

18. i know. he and his friends are such obnoxious people. people

with too much money and too much time on their hands. but it is funny. and yes i remember the shrimp. i've seen every episode.

[OnionPatch]

11. Mistake

I hope you taped Curb Your Enthusiasm, it was a fantastic finale! I was in tears.

[Dervill Crow]

5. I watched it once to check out Oded Fehr's character.

I didn't like the show at all. Those shows featuring ex-demons from Charmed seem to be way too graphic. I love Julian McMahon, but Nip/Tuck is more than I can take, and I work in the medical field. :puke:

[ellenfl]

8. oded fehr - from 'the mummy', right? eom

[catmother]

9. never watched Charmed so i don't know what you're talking

about.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. Yes, we've been watching it

and I'm actually enjoying it. Of course, the terrorism interceptors are probably a lot more efficient, etc., than in real life, but it's good drama anyway. I appreciate that they don't portray ALL Muslims as terrorists, but also show a more positive interpretation of Islam. I'm with you, CatMother. I think this series is a lot more even-handed than I would have expected.

[in_cog_ni_to]

21. It's written by a Muslim. He was interviewed on on Majority Report

Wednesday. His name is Cameron (something). That's why it seems even-handed. The writer does get "sensitive" info from Government insiders, which I found troubling....propaganda? Anyway, the reason Showtime took on "Sleeper Cell" was, in part, because it was written by a Muslim, at least that's what the writer said.

I haven't watched it. I just figured it was more propaganda TV.

[Blue_In_AK]

22. That's interesting...

I didn't know that back story about the Muslim writer. I personally don't find this series to be as propaganda-laden as it could be. Granted, the antagonist is depicted as a pretty bad man, and the hero undercover agent is good, but they do have shadings to their characters that make them interesting from a dramatic standpoint. The Muslim undercover agent is very principled -- I don't know how true that is in the lives of real-life agents, but we should all certainly wish so.