I decided that not blogging has made me miss it immensely, so here's the first of a bunch of blogs all at once about things I've been watching.
We'll begin with Flash Forward, which airs on ABC on Thursdays at 8pm EST.
On October 6, 2009, a mysterious global event causes everyone on the planet to silmultaneously experience, for two minutes and seventeen seconds, his or her life six months into their own supposed future: April 29, 2010 at 10pm PT (which, by the way, is the night of my 21st birthday). When it is over, many are dead in sccidents involving vehicles, aircraft, and any other device needing human control. Everyone who survived the global blackout, dubbed the "GBO" is left wondering if what he or she saw will actually happen.
A team of Los Angeles FBI agents, led by Stanford Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance) and spearheaded by Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) and his partner Demetri Noh (John Cho), begin the process of determining what happened, why, and whether it will happen again. Benford sort of turns into Chuck with the investigation, which the FBI dubs "Mosaic", and uses the images he saw in his flash forward to piece things together.
The team investigates a number of events related to the flashforward, including "Suspect Zero" who did not lose consciousness during the event, "D. Gibbons", and a similar mass loss of consciousness in Somalia in 1991. Meanwhile, personal revelations contained within the flash forwards occupy the personal lives of the principal characters. Mark Benford sees his alcoholism relapsing, his wife sees herself with another man, and other characters grapple with similarly unexpexted or surprising revelations in their flashforwards.
Okay, after the first two episodes, I was hooked. This show is like crack for me, no lie. That being said, I do hope that the ratings in the US hold up well and this doesn't get cancelled like so many others *cough*PushingDaisies*cough*. Every episode has left me saying "WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!" Every. Time. It's 24, mixed with a little Fringe, with a dash of Lost. Okay, maybe a few gallons of Lost. Anyway, any piece of information I give in this could quite spoil everything for someone who hasn't seen it. I HIGHLY recommend watching at least 3 episodes. It will change your life.
All in all, I give this a WIN+ for sheer WTF factor.
