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It’s been two months since Tru Davies (Eliza Dushku) and Jack Harper (Jason Priestley) last met in a deadly confrontation in which Tru saved the life of her brother Harrison (Shawn Reaves), but she was ultimately thwarted when Jack evened the score by taking the life of her boyfriend Luc. After that night, Jack disappeared – but now he’s back with a vengeance. His renewed efforts to make sure the dead stay dead only make Tru more determined to carry on her murdered mother’s legacy of saving those who die before their time. But also back in town is Tru’s estranged father Richard (Cotter Smith) who, although claiming he wants to forge new relationships with his son and daughter, has his own secret agenda which is anything but fatherly in intent.

Episode 01: Perfect Storm
For a season premiere a bit lame, for a normal episode pretty good, which is surprising. The duel Tru versus Jack rises to a new level, and even her father is involved in everything. But before the writers get deeper into this story, they should clear the enemy lines: Why is it that Tru’s father and Jack are against Tru and what she is doing? Who is behind all of this? Hopefully the short rest of the series gives a little bit of an answer. But I find it interesting that Harrison is going to be prepared as Tru’s enemy, at least I believe this is happening. Will Harrison have the same powers Jack has right now? And why doesn’t Harrison have the powers his sister and his father have and why does Jack have them? And who is jack really? I can’t believe I am saying this, but this is actually an exciting story.
The “Help me” of the week was good. Carly Pope is always nice to watch, and I liked the bit of water action. And the fact that the case was not over with Tru’s success to save her (well, it was Davis (Zach Galifianakis)) makes the episode a bit better. I just want to know how Jack knew the facts about the case. He didn’t live it like Tru, so where did he have the information?
Davis’ little psych evaluation plot was alright, too, though just an excuse to give him a proper story. 7/10

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Tru Davies (Eliza Dushku), a medical grad student in Boston whose grant is suddenly pulled out from under her, takes a job at a local morgue and starts to work for Davis (Zach Galifianakis). There, she discovers that she has the power to “re-live” the previous day over again to help the people who wrongly ended up dead. She uses this gift not only to save lives, but to help her trouble-plagued family – her older sister Meredith (Jessica Collins), a lawyer and drug addict in denial; and her younger, irresponsible, slacker, gambling brother Harrison (Shawn Reaves).

Episode 01: Pilot
Haha, that was extremely cheesy. And somehow very bad. I am saying nothing against the whole plot, because I liked it; it is a nice mixture of Early Edition and Ghost Whisperer. But this was… not good. For a pilot I don’t know anything about the characters, except that Tru’s mother was murdered ten years ago; her sister Meredith taking drugs; her brother Harrison having bad influence with bad people – yeah, great, that is all? For a pilot there was a lot of story going on, you can actually think this is the tenth episode in the season. No reaction what soever from Tru while listening to dead people? No reaction what soever from Tru being send back in time for one day? She asks herself no questions about that? Seriously, that is just bad writing. That is clearly not a way to start a new series.
But a techno style, which reminded me of “Run, Lola, Run”, and Eliza Dushku making some points for watching the show, so I give it 3/10.

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