(September
20th, 2007. - Editor)
Kevin McKidd (Rome), Moon Bloodgood (Daybreak), Gretchen Egolf (Martial
Law), Reed Diamond (Homicide: Life On The Streets) and Charles Henry
Wyson (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button) star in the one hour drama
Journeyman, airing Mondays on NBC.
From
Emmy Award-winning writer-producer Kevin Falls ("The West
Wing") and Emmy Award-winning director-producer Alex Graves
("The West Wing"), "Journeyman" is a romantic
mystery-drama about
Dan Vasser (McKidd), a San Francisco newspaper reporter and family man,
inexplicably begins to travel through time and change people's lives.
Along the way, he also must deal with the difficulties and strife at
work and home brought on by his sudden disappearances. When his
freewheeling travels through the decades reunite him with his long-lost
fiancée Livia (Bloodgood), it complicates his present-day life with his
wife Katie (Egolf) and their son. Even though he is convinced that his
travels trough time are real, he begins to question himself when he
faces tough questions from his wife, his boss and his friends.
This effort is billed as a one hour romantic mystery-drama, whatever
that is, from Emmy Award winning Writer and Executive Producer Kevin
Falls (The West Wing) and Emmy Award winning Executive Producer and
Director Alex Graves (The West Wing). With that kind of lead-in I was
expecting a lot more then the effort that arrived on the screen in the
one. Time travel has been many other ways and all of them were better
than this dull, slow and pointless drama. Those viewers who are able to
stay with the plot will quickly be wondering why they would waste their
time watching another 21 episode of this. Personally, I can't imagine
what it must be like to be sitting in a writer's room charged with
completing the season based on what we were given in the pilot episode.
I'm not even sure the actors could believe the words that were coming
out of their mouths.
There is nothing offered in the way of a second plot level and no other
reason to care about these characters, they just don't make that big of
an impression. In the very busy television landscape, this middle of the
road offering will quickly be lost in the crowd. Don't get attached to
this group of characters. I don't think you will be seeing them around
for very long.
-- Editor --
