30 Days of Television - Day One
I'm going to try doing this meme - but I'm going to do it at my own pace & skipping/altering whatever I want! :P
30 Days of Television - Day One
Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Nowhere Man
My family watched this show from day 1 and never missed a single episode. It was the first show we ever watched obsessively altogether as a family unit and I think that's part of the reason it holds such strong memories for me. We didn't really even have a television before 1995 and we'd only gotten one (& cable) because it was an election & olympic year so my parents thought it would be educational. In many ways, this show is what started my love of mysteries & sci fi. The killer is it ended on a major cliffhanger - and then got canceled so there's no resolution at all!! (which is why I refuse to watch Sliders or the Pretender with Hubby when I learned both those series stop short, too.)
I've borrowed a synopsis/review from geekusa
About: Photojournalist Thomas Veil, played by Bruce Greenwood, who discovers that his identity has been completely erased. Does it have something to do with a controversial photo he took of four men being executed in the jungle? Is it a big government conspiracy, or is it something stranger and deeper? How have they managed to get to everyone in this man’s life, including his wife and friends? And what if the photo itself - and Mr. Veil himself - were part of the conspiracy from the beginning?
Hell should I know? They canceled the thing before we could find out.
Nowhere Man had a lot going for it. It was an X-Files-esque show that wasn’t a blatant ripoff like Dark Skies or too weird for its own good like American Gothic. It owed more to shows like The Prisoner and The Fugitive, really, in that you followed Thomas Veil on his search for answers - there’s only one person you can trust, and by the end of the show, you weren’t even sure if you could trust him.
If only it had been on a real network. UPN must have thought they had a perfect lead-in show: it was on right after Star Trek: Voyager, so the thinking was that the geeks would stick around. But Nowhere Man was way too dark and weird for Trekkies - if Fox had picked it up and aired it right after X-Files, it would have lasted longer and you would actually have heard of it. As it happens, it’s on DVD, so you can still watch it if you like, but be warned: the final episode’s gonna make you want to dig up the ashes of UPN just so you can stomp on them in frustration.
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
30 Days of Television - Day One
Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Nowhere Man
My family watched this show from day 1 and never missed a single episode. It was the first show we ever watched obsessively altogether as a family unit and I think that's part of the reason it holds such strong memories for me. We didn't really even have a television before 1995 and we'd only gotten one (& cable) because it was an election & olympic year so my parents thought it would be educational. In many ways, this show is what started my love of mysteries & sci fi. The killer is it ended on a major cliffhanger - and then got canceled so there's no resolution at all!! (which is why I refuse to watch Sliders or the Pretender with Hubby when I learned both those series stop short, too.)
I've borrowed a synopsis/review from geekusa
About: Photojournalist Thomas Veil, played by Bruce Greenwood, who discovers that his identity has been completely erased. Does it have something to do with a controversial photo he took of four men being executed in the jungle? Is it a big government conspiracy, or is it something stranger and deeper? How have they managed to get to everyone in this man’s life, including his wife and friends? And what if the photo itself - and Mr. Veil himself - were part of the conspiracy from the beginning?
Hell should I know? They canceled the thing before we could find out.
Nowhere Man had a lot going for it. It was an X-Files-esque show that wasn’t a blatant ripoff like Dark Skies or too weird for its own good like American Gothic. It owed more to shows like The Prisoner and The Fugitive, really, in that you followed Thomas Veil on his search for answers - there’s only one person you can trust, and by the end of the show, you weren’t even sure if you could trust him.
If only it had been on a real network. UPN must have thought they had a perfect lead-in show: it was on right after Star Trek: Voyager, so the thinking was that the geeks would stick around. But Nowhere Man was way too dark and weird for Trekkies - if Fox had picked it up and aired it right after X-Files, it would have lasted longer and you would actually have heard of it. As it happens, it’s on DVD, so you can still watch it if you like, but be warned: the final episode’s gonna make you want to dig up the ashes of UPN just so you can stomp on them in frustration.
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death