I just finished watching Drive, the new show on Fox, and it was quite good. Now, I am predisposed to liking this show as I am a huge fan of Firefly (and Nathan Fillion and Tim Minear) and Amy Acker is my favorite person ever touched by Joss Whedon's genius, but I certainly had doubts. A show about an illegal cross-country road race could have easily turned into a Cannonball Run knock-off disaster. Luckily, Drive takes a bit more from Lost than it does from Burt Reynolds.
The race is basically just the plot device to explore the characters who are involved and to see what they would do in different situations. Fillion's character is in it to find his missing wife. One woman is running from her abusive husband and needs the winnings to set up a new life for her new baby. Some of the racers seem to be in it just for the money, but I'm betting that at least some of them have more at stake. Plus there's all kinds of car chasin'.
So for the long term, who knows (I don't know how long the series will last, and how many seasons can you make out of one race?), but for now I'm in.
The race is basically just the plot device to explore the characters who are involved and to see what they would do in different situations. Fillion's character is in it to find his missing wife. One woman is running from her abusive husband and needs the winnings to set up a new life for her new baby. Some of the racers seem to be in it just for the money, but I'm betting that at least some of them have more at stake. Plus there's all kinds of car chasin'.
So for the long term, who knows (I don't know how long the series will last, and how many seasons can you make out of one race?), but for now I'm in.
MY viewing consisted of
Two weeks of House, survivor,shark, 2 weeks worth of raines, Law and order, Scrubs, my name is earl, the office, buffy episodes, Hellboy: Blood and Iron, Cheaters, Blind Date, 2 episodes of Jericho.
er, i mean nathan fillion's wife was amy acker.