No matter how much The Dresden Files TV series tries to be a supernatural version of the Rockford Files, it still comes over as a detective version of Charmed!Tonight's episode - Rules of Engagement - was a pretty decent, turnaround on the cliched "deal with the devil" scenario - oddly similar to the plot of Ghost Rider which I saw earlier this evening and will review tomorrow. Harry is hired to track down a missing con artist only to find him dead from a nasty case of Hellfire exposure (see above) ... and things spiral out of control from there.
But as the show's makers continue to scrimp on the effects budget, no amount of clever subtle, small-scale magic, can make up for the fact that demons and monsters appear in their human forms for 99% of the time. You could use some sort of "they walk among us in secret" argument, but it's also a major cop out!
This week we were introduced to a couple of big wheels in the city's magical circles who will hopefully return to bug our hero and, as with last weeks, we are given intriguing hints of the structured nature of the powers they all wield.
It is this interest in the Dresdenverse that brings us back each week, rather than the individual stories which, barring last week's werewolf tale, have all been pretty humdrum to date.
Rules of Engagement merits a B- grade.
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