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"FOX has ordered 13 episodes of the new drama series Touch, created and written by Emmy-nominated Tim Kring (Heroes), it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company. Touch, starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner Kiefer Sutherland, will join the schedule in the spring of 2012. The pilot was directed and executive-produced by Francis Lawrence (Water for Elephants), and the show comes from Chernin Entertainment and Tailwind Productions, in association with 20th Century Fox Television...
TOUCH is a distinct and colorful drama in which science and spirituality intersect with the hopeful premise that we are all interconnected, tied in invisible ways to those whose lives we are destined to alter and impact.
At the center of TOUCH is MARTIN BOHM (Sutherland), a widower and single father, haunted by an inability to connect to his mute 11-year-old son, JAKE (David Mazouz). After multiple failed attempts at keeping Jake in school, Martin is visited by CLEA HOPKINS (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), a social worker sent to evaluate Jake’s well-being. Everything changes when Martin discovers that Jake possesses the gift of staggering genius – the ability to see things that no one else can and the patterns that connect seemingly unrelated events. Jake is indeed communicating. But it’s not with words, it’s with numbers. Martin meets ARTHUR DEWITT (Danny Glover), a professor and an expert on children who possess special gifts when it comes to numbers. Now, it’s up to Martin to decipher the meaning and connect the numbers to the cast of characters whose lives they affect...
Kring, Lawrence, Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope (both of New Girl and Terra Nova), Sutherland (24), Suzan Bymel (The War at Home), and Carol Barbee (Jericho) are executive producers."
It was okay. I kind of wish the Dad had been a tad more skeptical. I mean you think something is an institute, but it turns out to be some odd guy's house where he tells you about Fibonacci and how your son is an evolutionary marvel. Seems like you wouldn't just instantly buy whatever he tells you.
True I can see why a Dad would want to believe what the guy said, it gives him a chance to connect to his son, but I guess a part of me wanted him to be a bit reluctant. Like "I so want to believe what you're saying, but I just met you so I'm not certain" or at least "This could explain some things I've seen, but can you explain a bit better about how or why you think this is so?" Instead it seemed a bit more like, "I so want to believe what you're saying, so I will!" (To paraphrase Futurama)
It was okay. I kind of wish the Dad had been a tad more skeptical. I mean you think something is an institute, but it turns out to be some odd guy's house where he tells you about Fibonacci and how your son is an evolutionary marvel. Seems like you wouldn't just instantly buy whatever he tells you.
True I can see why a Dad would want to believe what the guy said, it gives him a chance to connect to his son, but I guess a part of me wanted him to be a bit reluctant. Like "I so want to believe what you're saying, but I just met you so I'm not certain" or at least "This could explain some things I've seen, but can you explain a bit better about how or why you think this is so?" Instead it seemed a bit more like, "I so want to believe what you're saying, so I will!" (To paraphrase Futurama)
Did you notice however that the Danny Glover character brought out two bottles of Orange Soda?
Because of all the numbers that his son keeps obsessing over - Kiefer figures out that one of them is a telephone number. When he does a reverse look-up he discovers that the telephone is in Grand Central Terminal. He thinks that his son is trying to tell him that there is a bomb or impending terrorist attack. When he gets there he finds the phone and the man who won the Lottery is using the phone. He tries to get him off the phone and they end up scuffling. Basically, because of this the man misses his trains and winds up saving the lives of schoolbus children. Also turned out that this man was an ex-firefighter and first responder at the WTC on 9/11 and tried to save the late wife of Kiefer. Which we find out when he leaves the message on Kiefer's telephone.
I just loved this show - loved how everything was connected even down to the Oven that the boys in Mumbai needed.
I just wanted to correct myself - for some reason I wrote 'Mumbai' when it was actually in Bagdad.
I re-watched this episode and noticed quite a bit that I had missed the first time around. It really is the sort of show that you do need to watch at least twice. I love how the number 318 shows up throughout the episode. And that the Firefighter's badge was left at the wife's grave and it was #318. So was the school bus. And the British couple's baby died on 3/18. Love this show and really really hope it can maintain the quality script writing of the pilot.
I watched it last night (March 15th) . I guess it was the first episode. I am not certain what it will be about except that appears to be loosely like that movie with Brad Pitt ( Babel ). It's very strange. I liked it, though.
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I was searching for a thread about this show and I am glad I found one. I just was able to watch a part of the episode a couple of nights ago and was intrigued by it. I recorded it and am going to search on On Demand for prior episodes so I can watch them in order.
Okay I just watched the first two episodes. There is no violence, no blood and gore, no bad words, no sexy scenes; just a really well thought out show that makes you sit there and pay attention.
The show is getting preachy and weird. I'll give it one more week. Why did K Sutherland get himself involved with this?
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