Friday, April 12, 2013

A young Leonardo discovers some heat

One byproduct of the "golden age of television" is that anything cheap can be easily made to look better than it is. What happens is that a lot of one-hour dramas, "Da Vinci's Demons" included, possess the basic,string bikini perfected blandness of advertising, filled with rolling fields,Sexy Cop Costumes colorful costumes and standard editing tricks. When Leonardo is struck by an idea, his frantic and pretty pencil drawings come to life, swirling and building around him, much like a commercial for, I don't know — software? Soy milk? Credit cards? Created and written by David S. Goyer, "Da Vinci's Demons" breezily and capably finds a balance between amusing wit and dour drama. 

Devil-may-care Leonardo is a busy polymath,Sexy Bees Costumes living off the largess of Florence's temperamental Lorenzo Medici, who tolerates the genius's antics when Leonardo promises to devise new military machines to ward off the troops of Pope Sixtus IV,Cheap Swimwear who heads a cabal of evil.Sexy Men Costumes It's the pope who is burdened with playing the vicious gay stereotype here, preying like a crocodile on young men who have the misfortune of taking a dip in his vast Vatican hot tub. 

"Da Vinci's Demons" heads off in a lot of different directions, as our easily distracted Renaissance Man, Leonardo, discovers from a wayward mystic that he's part of a kooky lineage of supergeniuses.This part of the plot puts Leonardo in the dangerously ho-hum genre of shows about differently abled sleuths who see details others don't and whose minds run off high-speed broadband while the simpletons around them remain strictly dial-up. But Riley takes the role of Leonardo for a real joyride, giving "Da Vinci's Demons" a spark of invention it would otherwise lack.

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