I’ll be the first to admit that I was really wary of this title. I’m not usually a television viewer, but Joseph Fiennes was Shakespeare in one of my favorite movies and it pushed my interest over the edge. I’ve watched the first five episodes of this show so far, and pretty ravenously. Though it can be cheesy at times, it’s very well put together and explores an interesting dilemma and, like Lost, raises a lot more questions that it answers. The show starts with a global event that most confuse for terrorism and the world essentially blacks out. Everyone has a dream that places them approximately six months in the future. This causes a problem for some people who see nothing, and it’s widely believed if they didn’t see a vision, it’s because they’ll be dead in six months.
The main character grappling with that is played by John Cho (who played Hikaru Sulu in the latest Star Trek picture), who’s a Federal Agent on the team trying to figure out what exactly happened and why the flashbacks happened.
All signs lead them to believe someone is responsible.
But as interesting as that whole part of the story is, it’s not as interesting as the dramatic interplay between characters. You see, Joseph Fiennes’ wife sees herself cheating on her husband with another man, someone whom she’s never even met…whom she meets in the next episode…
Though this show hasn’t grabbed me like Lost did by the time I was five episodes in, it seems really, really promising. And I’m glad to keep watching because it’s good. How they can keep it up, I don’t know, but at this point, I’m along for the ride.