DEAD ZONE

[Boatman]

[glow=red,2,300]D E A D Z O N E [/glow]

www.usanetwork.com/series/thedeadzone/

Whether you like Stephen King or not is irrelevant with this amazingly imaginative series.
It is not about ghosts and horror, this is a proper intelligent drama with subtle sci-fi shades.

Johnny Smith formerly a school teacher, survives a near fatal car crash. After a 7 year coma finds that his childhood sweetheart has married another man and all his reference points are out of date, the world has moved on.

He discovers he has a new-found psychic ability to see into the past and the future which makes him very useful to the local detectives in solving crimes. It also causes him moral dilemmas in how he uses those powers for good. A curse rather than a gift in many ways.

It also attracts a lot of unwanted attention to this very private individual.

Based on the original Stephen King novel and film of the same name, this series explores hero Johnny Smith's psychic powers further and takes the story into a whole new world of plots and counter plots, whist allowing us to sympathise and empathise with the hero as he faces up to the choices he has to make, with the cards fate and destiny have dealt him. It is sexy, exciting, thought-provoking, romantic, heart-breaking, and has humour! Can't recommend this show highly enough. Well worth investing in Series 1 box set if you've not seen it.

There are about 4 series and a 5th being made I believe.

[pickle]

I never saw the original movie or read the book, but I really got into the series. I suspect Neal Morse must have read the book, because his hero in 'Snow' was able to see the pasts of the people he touched also.

[Boatman]

Thanks for replying pickle I was beginning to think I was the only watching any of these shows! D'oh!

What do you reckon to the new Flowerkings one then? Roine seems to becoming a bit Morse like lyrically in places , which is very scary!

Deadzone is the best series I have seen ever! Followed by Lost or even better Prison Break. Deadzone is destined to be a cult show in the UK that people will eventually catch on to. Trouble is they screen it too late.

[shaneth]

We here at the Baker household do watch Dead Zone, and it is very VERY good i must say! (and i do have a soft spot for Nicole DeBoer who plays his ex wife!).

I enjoy the show, and both Prog Paul and the Tea Lady are Stephen King fans, so dont worry, you are not alone....

[Boatman]

Thank goodness, I mean, I thought why not go wild put some threads up and it was like, darn. No one is interested in any of these great series. So thank you, cybersapce does have people in it.

I even tried to join this thread about the Narnia Chronicles right and when people started replying, it was like, whoa, there is me used to no replies for like two years and suddnely, just as I am quoting two replies and trying to answer them in one modifed thread, thinking that in two years someone might see it - I get timed out, delete the wrong thread and suddenly - d'oh! .... (Boatman breaks off as PrisonBreak is about to start! Ye haaaaaaaaaa!)