****TOUCH airs on the local FOX affiliate which is WTTE 28 and can be found on channel 8 . For HD channel versions, check your local cable or satellite provider for more information. ****
So color my love of the show Touch starring Kiefer Sutherland a love that has a hinge of fear and worry attached to it.
Make no mistake, I sincerely enjoyed Touch, a show featuring a small boy who is a mix between RainMan, the machine from Person of Interest and David Krumholtz’s math genius from NUMB3RS. The boy using math, numbers and the like, predicts things before they happen, but can barely function himself in a normal world. He sees things past, present and future, and his father, (Sutherland) is the guy who tries to help piece the numbers his son draws, and the connections that touch each other, together.
Heck, the show made great use from Titus Welliver, who was an apparently Wednesday night MVP starring also in the Catherine Willows CSI: Crime Scene Investigation swan song episode airing the same night. Not that Welliver has been misused as an actor (as far as I can tell) but a surprisingly tragic twist to the proceedings was what Welliver brought to it, and again, I hope there is more from Welliver in the show in the future.
But ultimately the real problem with the show, (besides the fact my DVR cut out before a dramatic and tense scene and thus, I missed the final minute or seven of Touch before twitter followers graciously assisted me with what happened) is not a mis-use of an actor, but more importantly, who created the show.
I was a huge fan of the show Heroes by creator Tim Kring which had one of the best first seasons of television, up there with L0ST. Yet, the problem is that Kring didn’t know how to sustain Heroes, and the further it went on, the worse it got. The real key for me will be the rest of the season. How will the show continue? How will it maintain what it has set up? I mean, my god, I have my own definition now of when a show just goes horribly wrong: Heroes-syndrome. Glee suffered from it until this season. (I go into heavy detail of the effects of Heroes-syndrome here)
For a show like Touch it’s really important to remember that, and watch with care. Because Kring can easily lose sight of what is important for the show, like with what occurred on Heroes. And to see that happen here would be a shame.
Overall, the show was a thrilling ride, a rare feat in most pilots these days. Then again, so was Heroes. It makes me bite at my nails a bit to realize we won’t get another episode until March, and that the show could easily go off the rails just as easily as Kring’s previous project did.
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