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TV: Flashforward

October 2, 2009 on 11:52 pm | In TV | No Comments

Interesting new TV series starting up.

At 11am, every single person in the world blacked out. Simultaneously. For 137 seconds. Cars crash. Planes crash. Surfers drown.

During the blackout, everyone ‘remembers’ what happens to them 6 months from the blackout. They have a memory, or a flashforward, of 137 seconds of their future.

Some people ‘remembers’ reading the newspaper. Some remembers having an ultrasound for a pregnancy that hasn’t happened yet. Some a lover they’ve not met. Some remembers nothing. And one remembers a late night investigating the very phenomenon that just happened.

It looks like a show trying to run on the same rail as Lost. In fact, there are Easter Eggs in the first episode. You’ll catch a billboard for Oceanic Airlines if you’re watchful.

The cast is interesting.

Will from Shakespeare In Love.

Dr. Sulu from Harold And Kumar Goes To White Castle.

Steve, from Coupling.

And I think Steve is the lone mystery man who did NOT suffer the blackout when the whole world did.

The premise is very interesting. Let’s hope they don’t lose the plot.