Day Break Miniseries Premiere
I've been waiting to see how this would turn out for a few weeks now, and tonight finally was the 2-hour premiere of ABC's new Day Break miniseries. I have always hoped a series of similar style would come out, I've seen the plot theory used in some tv episodes but to make a multi-episode series about it is just awesome.
For those who have no clue what I'm talking about (if anybody actually reads this, that is), the series is built on Deja Vu. For some reason at 6:17am no matter what, the same day keeps starting. When you go to sleep you wake up back where you started, and have no clue why. Think Groundhog Day but much more in depth and a totally awesome storyline.
The series follows a cop (Taye Diggs for the RENT fans out there) who is being framed for the murder of an Assistant District Attorney. There's all sorts of corruption within the federal groups, and pretty much everyone can be corrupt in some form. Each day if he doesn't find some way to prevent it, his girlfriend (his alibi for the night of the DA shooting) gets killed and the cop gets arrested and then dragged out into the middle of the dessert.
So, basically the day just keeps repeating itself as the cop tries different things changing what happens to figure out what is going on and save his girlfriend as well as many other people. But it comes up with the whole give-and-take dilemma where you know you can save/do certain things, but you end up having to give up other things.
Overall, the main cast is very well done, and in the premiere they did an amazing job keeping the story moving along even with the repeating day... and there are so many small mysteries thrown all around the place that need to be resolved that he pretty much needs to go through one at a time.
In the 2 hour premiere it went through 4 "days," each about a half hour long (duh) so if they keep that pace going, the 11 additional shows in the miniseries will have him go through another 22 days until ...? I'm really excited, I think this is a very intelligently done show... and the fact that they were smart enough to realize the plot couldn't make for a full season/multi-season thing makes it so that it should be very good knowing they aren't going to try to prolong it and throw shit in... I like that.
I think the best part of the miniseries the way they did it is that each day not only does he remember what he learned... but he also is still just as bruised/injured as he was at the end of the "day" before. So if he gets the crap kicked out of him, he still can barely move come morning. I think that was a very interesting spin, I like it.
So yea, catch a rerun of the premiere if you can, it takes about a half hour to grab you because in the beginning everything's kinda "huh?" but then once it gets fired up... man... it's pretty cool shit. So check it out!
For those who have no clue what I'm talking about (if anybody actually reads this, that is), the series is built on Deja Vu. For some reason at 6:17am no matter what, the same day keeps starting. When you go to sleep you wake up back where you started, and have no clue why. Think Groundhog Day but much more in depth and a totally awesome storyline.
The series follows a cop (Taye Diggs for the RENT fans out there) who is being framed for the murder of an Assistant District Attorney. There's all sorts of corruption within the federal groups, and pretty much everyone can be corrupt in some form. Each day if he doesn't find some way to prevent it, his girlfriend (his alibi for the night of the DA shooting) gets killed and the cop gets arrested and then dragged out into the middle of the dessert.
So, basically the day just keeps repeating itself as the cop tries different things changing what happens to figure out what is going on and save his girlfriend as well as many other people. But it comes up with the whole give-and-take dilemma where you know you can save/do certain things, but you end up having to give up other things.
Overall, the main cast is very well done, and in the premiere they did an amazing job keeping the story moving along even with the repeating day... and there are so many small mysteries thrown all around the place that need to be resolved that he pretty much needs to go through one at a time.
In the 2 hour premiere it went through 4 "days," each about a half hour long (duh) so if they keep that pace going, the 11 additional shows in the miniseries will have him go through another 22 days until ...? I'm really excited, I think this is a very intelligently done show... and the fact that they were smart enough to realize the plot couldn't make for a full season/multi-season thing makes it so that it should be very good knowing they aren't going to try to prolong it and throw shit in... I like that.
I think the best part of the miniseries the way they did it is that each day not only does he remember what he learned... but he also is still just as bruised/injured as he was at the end of the "day" before. So if he gets the crap kicked out of him, he still can barely move come morning. I think that was a very interesting spin, I like it.
So yea, catch a rerun of the premiere if you can, it takes about a half hour to grab you because in the beginning everything's kinda "huh?" but then once it gets fired up... man... it's pretty cool shit. So check it out!