Well I missed Prison Break when it started. (I have since caught up, including a season 2 binge where I watched 13 eps back to back to back to… you get the idea.
I think this show will be similar to Prison Break. (Then again, they sure did seem to imply that durring Prison Break commercial time.)
I’m In.
so wait it’s “The Amazing Race” with (I assume) death?
Brian
He never worked on Buffy actually.
He was, however, very involved with Angel, the spinoff.
Excuse me, I hear a super-nerd meeting being called.
It’s the Fox Network, so it’ll have sex too, maybe even some lesbians. 
Fun show, I’ll keep watching it. It is total escapism though I caught myself checking the rear view mirror a few too many times while I drove.
– IG
Oh, I forgot to mention that the soundtrack rocks. The driving scenes are done to music like “Radar Love” by Golden Earring and “Roadhouse Blues” by the Doors. Mostly covers, but well done. I’m guessing the producers made a big list of the best driving songs, and use them.
I submit that no one at FOX has that much class.
Except possibly the folks who choose the songs played towards the end of most episodes of House.
I don’t watch House. I detest Doctor shows and Cop shows.
I will concede that disqualifies me. 
Hey, this is actually pretty good. Of course, that means it’ll be cancelled in a month. 
I don’t see how they can possibly resolve this. Aliens?
And who’s the creepy little guy reffing the thing. I know I’ve seen him before…
I’m on the fence.
Something is missing. It feels as if something is held back.
I will give it too more episodes. If it doesn’t speed close to the drama and tension of 24 and PrisonBreak, I’m out.
Liked what I watched of it tonight. Will make time to go over the DV-R in more detail. Very fun sense to it, mixed up with the tension.
This may be silly, but the show to me has already acquired an unofficial catchphrase, which is simply “Go GO GO!!”
Right. I agree with that idea. Something is…off. I feel the show has been changed by Fox from what it was.
Charles Martin Smith, apparently. I don’t recognize any of his credits on a quick run through of his IMDb profile but he has quite a few so I’m guessing he’s just a prolific character actor. His voice reminds me of Wallace Shawn.
I watched and enjoyed it but I’m one of those annoying Whedonites that will watch something just because someone from one of his shows is attached. I even watched the short lived Kitchen Confidential for a while because Nicholas Brendon was one of the stars.
And on a totally superficial and shallow note, I am already smitten with both J.D. Pardo and Melanie Lynskey.
Charles Martin Smith lives in my heart as Terry the Toad from American Graffiti. Stole his friend’s 58 Chevy to impress a girl, whereupon he gets beat up and then pukes on the girl. Who hasn’t done that?
It tickled me that the bikers were an older couple. The woman looked familiar.
I liked it, but I missed the second half. TiVo says Fox is repeating it tomorrow though.
K Callan, who played Martha Kent on Lois & Clark. She’s been in quite a few other things (including a guest spot on How I Met Your Mother last week), but I always think of her as Martha.
I’m definitely hooked. Sure, it might not be what was originally scripted, but I think I can safely say I’ll keep watching. Logically, it can’t last more than a season–unless they start over with different racers, which could be just as much fun.
I have to wonder why Tim Minnear still has anything to do with Fox. For that reason, that it involves Minnear on Fox, I think it’s doomed. Fox isn’t good enough for him.
I wasn’t following it too closely but wasn’t the black detective talking to Nathan in the beginning of the show, the same guy who played the bounty hunter on Firefly?
I missed the first couple minutes of the show (I started watching right about the time Melanie Lynskey was being asked about her bruises) so I missed the detective but I just looked at IMDb and it was indeed Richard Brooks that played the detective. Good eye, Wile E.
Yep. Sounded just like his Jubal Early character, too! We were squeeing a little before the camera pulled around for the reveal.
One interesting thing my husband told me (so blame him if it’s wrong) is that there is an astounding amount of digital work being done. Apparently the actors are “never” in cars. Now, I don’t believe it’s never never, 'cause it would seem absurd to do the gas station scenes without real cars, but I would buy that all the *driving *is CG.
You don’t know Charles Martin Smith? Besides Terry the Toad in American Graffiti, he was the naturalist who went to the tundra to live among wolves in Never Cry Wolf, and one of the Crickets in The Buddy Holly Story. I’ve always been a big fan.
He also has another Joss Whedon connection. He’s done some TV directing as well as acting, and he directed “Welcome To The Hellmouth,” the Buffy The Vampire Slayer pilot.