It looks like an interesting premise. He just did a promo on the Today Show and I’m definitely going to give it a try.
I love his style (aside from the fact that I think he’s a total babe) and I’ve got the highest hopes that he did not sign onto a stupid project. Anyone else gonna take a look?
I’d give it a try if it didn’t have that stupid-ass he-might-be-receiving-messages-from-the-murder-victims premise. Isn’t that basically what Tru Calling is all about?
Eh…I don’t know…quirky detective with mental issues that cause him to be able to look at crimes in a strange way and solve them? Sounds a whole lot like a cross between Monk and Tru Calling with maybe a little Medium thrown in. I’ll probably give it a try just because as another poster mentioned, there’s not a whole lot else on Thrusday night.
Tru Calling was ‘different’… the dead person of the week would open eyes and say “Help Me” to Tru, who would then go back 24 hours and attempt to help said dead person…
Tru did not ‘see ghosts’ or ‘visions’… other than the re-wind aspect, she was perfectly ‘normal’ wrt that stuff.
I dunno if it was really shown one way or the other in the promos. One showed him talking to (I think) a psychiatrist, but I don’t remember them saying one way or the other whether he was seeing real dead people or hallucinating them (and if hallucinating, whether or not he was aware he was hallucinating).
But on the drive into work this morning, Goldblum did a phone interview for the station I was listening to. In the discussion between him and the DJs, they stated pretty firmly that the “dead people” were his method for mentally working out the case, rather than anything paranormal. So more like “Monk” (quirky investigator with odd habits) and less like “Medium”.
I’ve got it set up on DVR, we’ll see how it works out. Mid-season “fillers” can go either way…
I like Goldblum, but the premise looks dumb (sort of a hash of “Medium” and “Crossing Jordan”). Yeah he may not really be talking to the victims, but that, in some ways, makes it even more stupid for me. It may be a great show, but I’m afraid I’ll never know one way or the other.
I had the same high hopes for James Wood in “Shark,” but after the first season break, the show came back with all of its character removed. Fingers crossed for Goldblum’s show, that it doesn’t get “lowest common denominatored.”