My TV Musings

This episode of Eli Stone got me thinking about several new network scifi shows and what makes them interesting to watch.
Eli Stone, John Amsterdam (New Amsterdam), and Dan Vassar (Journeyman) have something in common: incidents that occur beyond their control that force them to examine their lives and how to make them meaningful.
Eli has visions […]

Problems at the newspaper and at home for Dan. He gets fired and it looks like 25% of the newspaper staff will be joining him soon. But not Nancy, now in her 50’s who, rumor has it, bought her job several decades earlier “on her knees” as one co-worker put it, by […]

This show has turned out to be much more interesting and exciting than I had expected. And this particular episode turns the tide for Dan and his family.
Dan recently was able to assist the cops by catching a real estate developer, Aeden Bennett, who was a kidnapper of young girls. Well, he’s now […]

NBC has decided not to pick up any new episodes of Journeyman, and the final 2 episodes will air next week, with one episode on Monday and one on Wednesday.
If you have enjoyed this series, as I have, please find details here to join the fan campaign to change NBC’s mind.
I’m still catching up on […]

If you’re a time traveler, especially with no control over when you travel, is it really a good idea to go jogging?  Well, Dan runs right into a rave in an abandoned warehouse in 1992!  Not only that, but Livia is there, dancing her little heart out and doesn’t recognize Dan because they haven’t yet […]

Dan tracked Abby, a teenager who dropped out and turned on in the early 70s.  Meanwhile, back in the present, the FBI were looking for the ransom money at his house, but Dan had taken it with him into the past.  When he found Abby hanging with some hippies who turned out to be armed […]

Sometimes things go your way and sometimes they don’t. Well that’s how this episode went.
It started with Dan’s brother, Jack, babysitting Zack, finding the stash of money Dan got on one of his time travel trips. So Jack, being a cop, had to take one of the bills and have someone look into […]

You would think that time travel would be fun, right? Well, Dan Vassar, a reporter in San Francisco, suddenly finds himself travelling back in time, tracking people’s lives in order to help them through a crisis. He would like to be able to control this skill because it’s messing with his life. […]