Title: Touching Evil
Stars: Jeffrey Donovan and Vera
Farmiga,
Executive Producers: Bruce
Willis, Arnold Rifkin, Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes, Robert Palm, and Antony Root
Running Time: 87 minutes without
commercials
Media: USA Original Television
Series Premiere (NTSC DVD Screener)
Season Premiere Friday, March 12,
2004, at 9pm (ET/PT)
Network: USA Network (Check your
local cable/satellite listings for channel)
TV Rating: Not Available At Time
Of Review
Reviewer: Mark A. Rivera
Three years ago Detective David
Creegan (Jeffrey Donovan) was shot in the head by a single .45 caliber bullet
while on duty with the FBI’s Organized & Serial Crime Unit. He died, but
ten minutes later, he inexplicably returned to the world of the living. He is
now aloof, shameless, bright, but quite strange. With a new partner to keep him
in line (Vera Farmiga), the two use procedure and gut to catch a child killer.
Considering the talent involved
in producing this new USA Network original series, I was quite disappointed by
the way the TV feature length series premiere turned out. The first few minutes
felt exciting, but from then on the series opener just lost steam for me.
There’s potential there for something dark and intriguing, but the opening
episode felt like it was borrowing elements from other better USA original shows
like “The Dead Zone” and mixing it with the quirky nature of “Monk”
while trying to play it all straight. Perhaps I am being too harsh, but quite
honestly, I could not get into this show and found it both dull and derivative
of other better shows that have aired in general on TV in the past. I hope
future episodes will be better and my initial reaction will be proven to be
short sighted because there is something about the show that I did like. I am
not sure if it was the actors or something else, but I do see potential there.
We’ll have to see where it all goes from here when “Touching Evil”
premieres on the USA Network with a special TV feature length premiere episode
on Friday, March 12, 2004 at 9pm (ET/PT) and regular episodes following
thereafter on Friday, March 19, 2004 at 10pm (ET/PT).
© Copyright 2004 By Mark A.
Rivera
All Rights Reserved.