Touch Review: "The Road Not Taken" (Episode 1.13)
At the end of Touch’s first season, Martin and his son Jake were at the start of a new beginning. Running away from the institution that wanted to put Jake away and traversing from New York City to the west coast, it seemed like Touch was possibly ready to make a new start, learning from the many flaws the show had in the first season. With this out-of-nowhere episode, airing over a month before the second season begins, it seems like Touch is up to its old tricks again, with no attempt to fix its own past. read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsTouch Review: "Music of the Spheres" (Episode 1.9)
Week to week, Touch is in this compelling struggle. The story of the main characters Martin and his son Jake are interesting enough to check in once every week, but the stories surrounding them usually flounder and make the show suffer. Usually we’re introduced to new characters that we will never see again, only to fill up the half hour. But with “Music of the Spheres”, we get a mix of the good and the bad, but ends as one of Touch’s more decent episodes. read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsTouch Review: "Noosphere Rising" (Episode 1.7)
For the most part, Touch is usually pretty decent at telling an interesting story about Martin and his son Jake. The show knows well enough that this is the most important aspect and that the connections are sometimes nice additions, but not the focal point of why people are tuning in. “Noosphere Rising” gives us a fairly decent Martin story, unfortunately the two connection stories, which take up at least half the episode, are some of the worst that Touch has done so far. read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsTouch Review: "Entanglement" (Episode 1.5)
Touch is a series that week to week treads a very fine line. In an hour every week, the show tries to connect people from all over the world and make their connections engaging, touching and exciting, while also trying its best not to seem cheesy or far fetched. Most of the time the show throws everything it can at you. Just this week, we get stories from three different countries, involving birth, murder, gender roles, unrequited love, divorce and 9/11. Sometimes these ideas and links get muddled, but “Entanglement” gets most of what does make Touch work right. read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsTouch Review: "Kite Strings" (Episode 1.4)
David Simon, creator of The Wire, recently said in a New York Times interview, that it was unfair for people to criticize his show because they were not aware of the beginning, middle and end, and how everything works together. Simon does have a point, with some shows like The Wire, knowing how all the puzzle pieces fit makes for a more engaging and enjoyable experience. A show like Touch also suffers from this problem. Now while Touch will almost certainly never attain the status of The Wire, considered by many to be one of the greatest shows of all time, it also shares the problem of trying to build a complex interconnecting world, all while keeping the audience engaged without having them know the endgame. But unlike The Wire, which was centralized in Baltimore, Touch connects the entire world, from Iraq to Virginia and everywhere in between. This makes it harder to see how everything will come together in the end. But with “Kite Strings”, for the first time since the pilot, Touch feels like it has an endgame in mind, one that will at the very least attempt to connect all these disparate stories. read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsTouch Review: "1+1=3" (Episode 1.02)
When Fox decided to premiere the pilot of its new show _Touch_ two months ago, it was an odd way for the network to debut its newest drama. Airing your pilot separate from the rest of the series can be a way for viewers to build excitement for your upcoming show, but after watching the show’s second episode “1+1=3”, it seems more likely that Fox was trying to have some distance between _Touch_’s promising debut and its incredibly familiar yet much weaker follow up episode. read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsTouch Review: "Pilot" (Episode 1.1)
Tim Kring has a lot to make up for. As the creator of _Heroes_, he made a compelling story that in less than a season fizzled out into a burst of fate hokum and ridiculous storylines that seemed more soap opera than comic book. Kring new how to start off a series, yet didn’t know how to follow it up into a show worth watching. With his newest show _Touch_, he once again gets started on the right foot, yet after the large scale of “Pilot”, it’s hard to see where the show can go from here. read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsKiefer Sutherland to Star in New Show from Heroes Creator
Last year, after eight seasons of 24, Kiefer Sutherland parted ways with FOX. But next year Sutherland will again be back on the network that made Jack Bauer a part of TV history. read more
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