Before that, 2017 featured a soapier take on the genre in Midnight, Texas on NBC. Last year, NBC's Manifest dove into the personal ramifications following a plane that lands five years after it supposedly disappeared, throwing everyone's lives into chaos. That family-drama angle is one that networks specifically have been attempting to mesh into sci-fi for years, typically to no avail.
EMERGENCE TV PILOT SERIES
But Emergence and similar network series from years past seem to stumble when it comes to the next layer that sells the show.įor Emergence, that (attempted) element seems to be the substantial time given to Evans' home life where she and her husband (Faison) navigate the complex relationship of co-parenting post-divorce. Think of David Lynch's style in Twin Peaks, or the production value of Stranger Things, or the storytelling risks in Lost. While every good sci-fi show has The Mystery™, really good television has always required an additional layer of mystique to thrive in the genre. The little girl is The Mystery™ with her own set of strange abilities, and the pilot makes it clear that the meat of Emergence hinges on this girl's supernatural powers. But in the process, Evans discovers that the child has supernatural powers like making the direction of rain change.
The child has no memory of the accident or who she is, so Evans takes her to the hospital where she makes the decision to eventually take the child home. The series follows a police sergeant, Jo Evans (Tolman), who finds a young child at the scene of an accident. And Emergence might be this year's big swing sci-fi show that never lasts long enough to see its big mystery get solved. But, network television has found itself in a weird habit every year of pushing out a promising sci-fi mystery series that never manages to stick. Emergence is also a genre show hoping to cash in on the prestige of massive hits like Stranger Things and Westworld. Donald Faison is the sitcom-star-face that can draw in Scrubs fans. Allison Tolman is the flashy award-nominated actor who anchors the series. ABC's new fall series Emergence has all the components necessary to be a big success.
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