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Tru Calling. A rather wonderful show that makes crime-fighting... kinda weird.
Admittedly, I have actually raved about this show before. At length. So, to quote myself:
The show’s premise is fairly simple. Basically, the main character (Tru Davies) has a superpower that allows her to relive days. In typical Groundhog Day fashion, she can go back and do things differently so that the world turns out better.
She can’t actually control this superpower, though. It kicks in, without warning, when she’s at work.
You see, Tru works in a morgue. And occasionally, when a body is brought in, the dead person will turn to Tru and ask for help. THEN the day will restart. Immediately.
So, as Tru sees it, her job is to find out how the person died, and make sure that, this time, they stay alive.
It’s pretty much your typical sci-fi-in-normal-life, chick-with-superpowers-trying-to-save-people-and-deal-with-everyday-stuff, set-inside-a-morgue, fox-cancelled drama.
In your standard solve-the-murder show, you take certain things for granted. Like:
- evidence
- authority (in terms of being able to arrest people, and so forth)
- a dead body
That last one is especially important, because once someone's been killed, everyone else is going to take the situation seriously. Or at least semi-seriously.
Tru, on the other hand, finds it fairly hard to convince people that the situation's serious - because nothing bad has happened yet.
Also, in CSI, if you discover that, actually, the dead person wasn't murdered, that actually it was a suicide, or an accident, or...
...well, whatever it was, it was basically cheating. No-one gets arrested, and you sit there feeling a bit ripped off. The point of the show is the murder.
In Tru Calling, on the other hand, it could be murder, or suicide, or an accident, or a double-murder-suicide-accidenty-pact thing. All of them are possible (well, maybe not that last one) - and if it's a suicide, it's not a case of "Oh. Suicide. Right, case closed, we can all go home."
Instead, Tru suddenly has to switch from finding a killer to figuring out how on earth to stop someone killing themselves...
In short, it's an excellent show. And you should watch it. (For Eliza Dushku's hair, if nothing else.)
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Tru Calling. A rather wonderful show that makes crime-fighting... kinda weird.
Admittedly, I have actually raved about this show before. At length. So, to quote myself:
The show’s premise is fairly simple. Basically, the main character (Tru Davies) has a superpower that allows her to relive days. In typical Groundhog Day fashion, she can go back and do things differently so that the world turns out better.
She can’t actually control this superpower, though. It kicks in, without warning, when she’s at work.
You see, Tru works in a morgue. And occasionally, when a body is brought in, the dead person will turn to Tru and ask for help. THEN the day will restart. Immediately.
So, as Tru sees it, her job is to find out how the person died, and make sure that, this time, they stay alive.
It’s pretty much your typical sci-fi-in-normal-life, chick-with-superpowers-trying-to-save-people-and-deal-with-everyday-stuff, set-inside-a-morgue, fox-cancelled drama.
In your standard solve-the-murder show, you take certain things for granted. Like:
- evidence
- authority (in terms of being able to arrest people, and so forth)
- a dead body
That last one is especially important, because once someone's been killed, everyone else is going to take the situation seriously. Or at least semi-seriously.
Tru, on the other hand, finds it fairly hard to convince people that the situation's serious - because nothing bad has happened yet.
Also, in CSI, if you discover that, actually, the dead person wasn't murdered, that actually it was a suicide, or an accident, or...
...well, whatever it was, it was basically cheating. No-one gets arrested, and you sit there feeling a bit ripped off. The point of the show is the murder.
In Tru Calling, on the other hand, it could be murder, or suicide, or an accident, or a double-murder-suicide-accidenty-pact thing. All of them are possible (well, maybe not that last one) - and if it's a suicide, it's not a case of "Oh. Suicide. Right, case closed, we can all go home."
Instead, Tru suddenly has to switch from finding a killer to figuring out how on earth to stop someone killing themselves...
In short, it's an excellent show. And you should watch it. (For Eliza Dushku's hair, if nothing else.)
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