You have some very excellent taste. Though Day Break will always be (affectionately) Groundhog Taye in my heart. And a double dose of Moon Bloodgood!
I saw Journeyman and Day Break, I loved them both. They were really cool and fun to watch.
You should also watch New Amsterdam, not the New Amsterdam from 2018, but the New Amsterdam from 2008:
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Then after that, go watch Forever, it's like the previous show, but with characters that swapped jobs:
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Day break is actually really good, and it is entirely a self contained story. If you have to, it's worth the $6-8 used for a dvd off amazon
Man...can't believe Day Break only has DVD. One of my favorite show ever. It's basically Groundhog Day but every loop managed to be more interesting than the rest. Also, the villain (the guy who play Mike in Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul) is scary as fuck.
Daybreak and Journeyman were really good at the time. Daybreak has a great ending. I don't think Journeyman or Nine did. Nine was supposed to be another Lost and went nowhere.
Thanks all for sharing your thoughts on, and memories of, these series. I remember the pilots for Day Break and Journeyman didn't really grab me, did the shows become significantly better as they went on? I'm guessing so because so many network shows I've enjoyed started off with middling pilots.
Does journeyman have any kind of ending or just a cancellation?
Also, any ideas where I might find The Nine? It appears it was released on DVD and then re-released but Google, eBay and Amazon only seem to want to sell me The Nine Lives of Chloe King. Adding Scott Wolf as a search term just brought me to listings for signed headshots.
And Jason, same question about pilots, I'm pretty sure we watched both the 2008 New Amsterdam pilot and the Forever pilot and couldn't get into either, did those pick up a lot thereafter? I remember the Forever pilot in particular felt slow.
Also, I want to give you fellow genre TV fans a few off-the-radar recommendations from the last decade and a half...
Hostages was a CBS show from maybe 6 or so years ago, really cool premise as a family is kept hostage in their home throughout the whole series. They have to try to outwit their captors. They're being held hostage to force Toni Collette's character to both a surgery on a political figure. It's just a legit good hostage story with plenty of suspense, surprising interactions between the criminals and hostages, plenty of Stockholm syndrome, and great performances from Collette and Dylan McDermott. I think it ended semi-satisfyingly.
Kidnapped was another hostage type story, from 2006, but completely different in tone and style, and had considerably more suspense to it. A wealthy family's son is kidnapped. The parents are played by Timothy Hutton and Dana Delaney, the hostage expert is Jeremy Sisto, and Mykelti Williamson and Delroy Lindo have significant roles, so the cast is pretty stacked. This one is more of a fun cross-country adventure romp. Kept us on the edge of our seats throughout, and at the time it was cancelled NBC put a couple episodes up on their website, probably one of the first times this happened, and eventually the DVD collection came out and provided resolution to the story.
Six Degrees was a pretty cool ensemble show a la something like Parenthood a million little things, but characters had more tertiary connections between them so it afforded the show opportunity to tell lots of different kinds of stories in each episode. Hope Davis, Campbell Scott and Erika Christensen were some of the standouts but the whole cast was great. That was another cancelled 2006 show, so it was satisfying to finally watch the rest of the series a few years later.
Allegiance, which aired on ABC, drew a lot of comparisons to The Americans, but was a pulpier show with more of an adventure/spy thriller element to it. Hope Davis played part of a husband and wife spy team and their son is a counterintelligence agent unaware of his parents' motives. The parents assimilated a bit too well to America and become torn between their original mission and their family. It was surprisingly not cheesy for the premise, great performances and the story felt just as much character-driven as plot-driven. Just a super solid, compelling show that kept us glued to the screen.
I'd also love more recommendations of underappreciated network TV shows from the past couple decades, especially those cancelled within a couple seasons.
You would not believe how disappointed I was to discover that the time-travel show called Journeyman was nothing to do with
The Journeyman Project.
Interesting, this is the first I've heard of that game. Sounds like it had an interesting plot, too. The story of the studio, Presto, was interesting to peruse on Wiki also. Hope the devs all landed on their feet when the studio closed.
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