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The Dresden Files, based on Jim Butcher's series of novels, follows the adventures of Chicago detective and wizard Harry Dresden. So far this season, Harry's relationship with the High Council, a powerful group that oversees the magical community, has been tenuous since they suspect he used dark magic to kill his uncle.
The final episode of the season will be "Second City," which will air April 15. Simkins promised that it will not be a cliffhanger. "While that does work for a lot of shows, we just kind of wanted to, I don't know, be a little friendly towards Dresden and the audience," he added. The Dresden Files moves to its new timeslot at 10 p.m. ET/PT, beginning April 8.
My husband David and I really like The Dresden Files, and we're pretty picky fans when it comes to SF/Fantasy genre shows on TV. Dresden Files is well crafted, the scripts and plots scan well, and it's clever about how it turns things around and plays with the audience's expectations of how "magic" works.
And the news that the first season is almost over already is not good – because it's a great little show and well worth watching, and we'll miss it and be impatient for its (assumed) return. We're still waiting for the return of Eureka, which won't be back until July, and in the meantime, the two Stargate shows return soon. But all too quickly, the final episode of Stargate: SG1 will air, and that will be really, really hard. At least it's going out while it's good, although you'd think after 10 seasons it would be out of gas thematically, even with the cast changes in the last 2 seasons. They've handled those changes well, and we've come to care about the newer characters (although I still miss Hammond of Texas).
The nice thing is that sometimes there's cross-pollination. On last week's Dresden Files, Claudia Black had a guest star spot playing a hard-nosed private detective from Chicago, and it was fun watching her in a role completely different from either Atlantis' Vala or Farscape's Aeryn. It was a good episode, as all the episodes have been, with a nice little coda at the end between Dresden and her character.
I’m enjoying the Dresden Files tons, if for no other reason than that it introduced me to a great series of books.
Here’s hoping that Harry will be back for another season.
Please put the Dresden Files on for a second season. It is a wonderful show. I make it a point to watch it every week. The characters are great and their interactions are fun to see.
please put the dresden files on for a second season please!!!!:)
I’m just wild about Harry! Keep the episodes commin’ Give us a second season.
We bought the first book in the series tonight – I noticed that all the Jim Butcher books were featured on a little shelf at Barnes and Noble, with little ‘As seen on Sci-Fi TV’ stickers.