FlashForward

[Mayo Red]

I watched the first 2 episodes of FlashForward on RTE2 earlier and was very impressed. I hadn't even seen it advertised before this evening but was intrigued and can't wait for the new episode next Monday at 9.00 I think. Well worth catching and it's early days but I think this could be really big.

The show stars Joseph Fiennes and its basic premise is that a mysterious event causes nearly everyone on the planet to simultaneously lose consciousness for 137 seconds, during which people see what appear to be visions of their lives approximately six months in the future—a global “flashforward”. A team of Los Angeles FBI agents, led by Stanford Wedeck (Vance) and spearheaded by Mark Benford (Fiennes), begin the process of determining what happened, why, and whether it will happen again. Benford contributes a unique perspective on the investigation; in his flashforward, he saw the results of six months of investigation that he had done on the flashforward event, and he and his team use those clues to recreate the investigation.

The team investigates a number of events related to the flashforward, including "Suspect Zero", who did not lose consciousness during the event, the sinister "D. Gibbons", and a similar mass loss of consciousness in Somalia in 1991. Meanwhile, personal revelations contained within the flashforwards occupy the personal lives of the principal characters. Mark Benford sees his alcoholism relapsing, his wife sees herself with another man, and other characters grapple with similarly unexpected or surprising revelations in their flashforwards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashForward

[jebus]

Just watched the first episode and I'm very underwhelmed to be fair.
I like the idea behind the show but I haven't really connected to any of the characters and some the Flashforwards weren't interesting enough for me
For example:

SPOILER: Fiennes character is back drinking, and his wife is feeling intense feelings for a new man in her house and they don't at least think 'maybe you left me because I started drinking again and got a new man'. The end of episode one was a nice touch though and will probably see me watching a few more episodes

[Jofspring]

According to someone on the radio the other day it has been said if the ratings don't dramatically increase fast its going to be axed already. Hate the way the Americans are doing this, running 4 or 5 episodes then dropping shows. Either stick with it or don't even begin.

[shakermaker1982]

I gave up around episode 4/5. It's **nk. Seriously. Go watch something else. If you haven't seen Lost before then rent the box sets instead.