Tru Calling

[taraswizard]

No thread for this new series, which has been renewed by Fox for a new season starting fall 2004. Tru Calling, starring Eliza Dushku (Faith the darker slayer on BtVS and Missy in Bring it On) as Tru Davies, her character starts her job as a morgue technician and finds she has a gift sometimes the corpses ask for her help. Tru then finds herself transported back to the previous day tasked with the quest of putting things right (BTW, it does always mean saving the victim from death). Ok, the first few episodes were maybe not that stellar, but some of the episodes that came by season's end were very good, the addition of Jason Priestly as kind of an anit-Tru, and her finding out she's not the first in her family to have this ability.

Ok, everyone is probably saying this has been done before, there was a series called Early edition, well no it's not the same. Or the series is just Faith works in Morgue, well no again, or it is really Missy works in Morgue, well still no. Tru Davies is a unique character, and the series has it own style and sensibilities. A media commentary newsletter I subscribe said Eliza Dushku brings charm and charisma to the role of Tru Davies, and series has a sense of humanity.

If anyone else watched last season, wadya think?

[Worm of Despite]

No interest in the series itself, other than the fact Eliza's in it. Who would name their kid "Tru", anyway? Might as well name them Tru Dat.

[FizbansTalking_Hat]

**Looks at Birth Certificate and runs crying into other room.**

[CovenantJr]

I haven't had the chance to see it, it hasn't been on terrestrial yet. I'd like to take a look when it finally does arrive though.

[I'm Murrin]

No digital satellite TV, CovJr? Poor you.
I've seen one or two episodes on Sky One, it seemed good.

[sindatur]

I watched almost all 20 episodes, and it's actually one of my favorite shows.

I was pretty upset when I heard Jason Priestly was going to be on it, but the character he played was excellent, and I'm glad he's playing the character because it makes it easier to feel dislike for the character, as you are being exposed to exactly who he is, little by little.

One really good thing about the show, is it twists several times before the end, just when you think you've got it all figured out, you find out you're wrong. Also, they're not afraid to kill characters. Just because someone asks for her help, doesn't mean they will end up living at the end

The arc really ramped up by the end of the season, and I hope they can continue the growth of the storyline, because it's really becoming very intriguing

[Nav]

I've watched a few episodes of this. I'm surprised that Tru hasn't learned not to leave breakable things no her bedside table by now.

Personally I find it a bit hit and miss. I saw a really good episode where Tru's brother had killed his girlfriend's ex-husband and she had to try and stop him, but other episodes I've seen can be a bit pedestrian. There's potential there, though.

[CovenantJr]

And it stars Eliza Dushku

Ok, blokey moment over

[Nathan]

No interest in the series itself, other than the fact Eliza's in it. Who would name their kid "Tru", anyway? Might as well name them Tru Dat.

Presumably it's short for Trudy?

[Worm of Despite]

www.imdb.com/title/tt0364817/

Doesn't say . . .

Also, when you "presume", it makes a pres out of you and me. And I wouldn't mind being President.

[taraswizard]

Congrats to Sindatur, admitting you're watching Tru Calling. I've been ridiculed several places for even slightly hinting this series could be any good. IMO, it's become a little bit of a snob badge of honor to ridicule this show.

[dlbpharmd]

My wife and I watched this show a couple of times. I was interested just because Elisha is one of the hottest chicks of all time. We found the show to be very bland and predictable. We haven't watched it since.

[Nathan]

I enjoy it, some of the episodes are better than others, the bad ones are really quite boring, but then when you get a good one it's very good and makes the crap ones worth it.

[Revan]

Eliza Dushku... *Drool*

Other than that, I have nothing to say.

[CovenantJr]

Thread resurrection.

I needed something new to watch, and Tru Calling was available in full for next to nothing, so I picked it up.

For ten or twelve episodes it was ok. The plots were pretty transparent, but most episodes threw in a little surprise. I probably wouldn't have stuck with it if I had anything better to watch at the moment - and that would have been a crying shame, because after those first ten or twelve episodes, things change.

Essentially, a large chunk of season 1 is all about establishing the formula. Someone dies, they ask for help, Tru rewinds and saves them (with occasional failures). But this seems, eventually, to be just that time honoured technique: setting up a status quo specifically in order to rock the boat later. By the time we get towards the end of season 1, things have become very interesting, and season 2 just takes that further. At first I watched episodes back to back because I was bored, but from somewhere around episode fourteen or fifteen I was glued to the TV. That's late to become enrossed, when the series is only 26 episodes in total. But it's worth it.

Like Firefly, Dark Skies, and the Sarah Connor Chronicles, Tru Calling was cancelled too soon. It was dropped just as it was beginning to become a genuinely great series.

[vasko]

I really loved Tru calling.
Just neeed to add a +1 to everything Cov Jr says.

[CovenantJr]

This morning I discovered I somehow managed to miss an entire disc of Tru Calling, so I now have something like four episodes to watch. It doesn't bode well, though, that everything still made perfect sense without me watching them.

And one of the missed episodes features Christina Hendricks! I love Christina Hendricks! (for those of you familiar with Firefly, she was the consistently awesome Saffron )