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...loved to have had a CSI," says Stephen McPherson, then head of Touchstone Television and now ABC Entertainment president. "But given our choices, it made a lot of sense to try to break out of the clutter." Abrams had a track record, as producer of Alias, of making a thriller with emotional impact--although, Abrams says, "it was an ongoing battle" getting the network to support that show's complex serial story line...
...gangster and many others, but you get the point. The island may not be purgatory, but metaphorically it is: almost all the castaways have a past to atone for, and their backstories, told in flashbacks, give the mystery and monsters emotional grounding. The result is a moving, literate popcorn thriller that weaves dozens of characters' lives into a story of interconnection, redemption and grace...
...there’s no grace period, because although it’s still September, this is likely the most important weekend of the Ivy slate, ripe with evenly-matched rivalry games. The reigning league champion (Brown) and the squad it unseated (Harvard) meet in their annual early-autumn thriller. And the other member of the Ivies’ triumvirate, Penn, clashes with local rival Villanova in a crucial test of just how much it has recovered from last year’s .500 season. If you check out today’s football supplement, on the back page...
...against the Bears came in the previous two meetings between the teams. In 2004, the Crimson stormed back from a 31-10 halftime deficit to squeak by Brown 35-34 on its way to a 10-0 championship season, while in 2005, it was a 38-35 double overtime thriller in Harvard’s home opener that was the lone loss for the 9-1 league champs.The differences then were that Brown was playing with running back Nick Hartigan, the 2005 Player of the Year and third-leading rusher in Ivy League history...
HEROES NBC, MONDAYS, 9 P.M. E.T.; PREMIERES SEPT. 25 Forget bird flu; in this thriller, there's a pandemic of superpowers. A cheerleader who can't be injured, a drug addict whose visions come true and many others discover their abilities in separate stories that promise to converge. The eerie mood of mystery recalls Lost, as does the big cast of characters (so many that the extra-long pilot does not introduce all of them). The writing is uneven--a plot about a Japanese geek who can teleport is engaging; others are flat or clichéd--but the idea...