NBC's Reverie

[Tuvix5675]

Starting watching this series and it just hit me how similar this show is to a former NBC show from the late 80s, Quantum Leap. Feel good stories, a hero(ine) who jumps into people's lives and fixes or saves them, but first has to figure certain things out. In Quantum Leap, the hero had to figure out what he needed to fix, what decision or action needed to be taken. In Reveries, the heroine needs to figure out how to reach people, and cause them to want to leave the fantasies they've created and gotten lost into.

 

[Christopher]

Both shows are part of a larger genre of shows about heroes helping people with their problems -- TV Tropes calls it "Woobie of the Week." See also Early Edition, Touched by an Angel, etc.

I find that the premise of Reverie also reminds me somewhat of the 1984 Dennis Quaid/Christopher Plummer thriller Dreamscape. That was about a psychic who was recruited by an experimental program to enter people's dreams, and part of the movie is almost episodic as he enters a couple of people's dreams to help them cope with their personal problems, but then it turns out that the government intelligence guy funding the project (Plummer) has more sinister intentions for the program. That makes me wonder what the real agenda of Kathryn Morris's similar character here might turn out to be.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It's awful.

I love Sarah, getting though all of Fairly Legal is proof of that, but I am approaching a limit of accepting how this lady is paying her mortgages.

 

[Aragorn]

I couldn't watch season 2 of Fairly Legal after the season premiere and dropped it. The retooling was just too much to tolerate on a show that was already shaky to begin with. Maybe she just doesn't get that many quality offers and Person of Interest, Life and The L Word will be her gold standard. I saw her recently in some crappy direct-to-video cop thriller with Al Pacino and Karl Urban in a nothing role anyone could've played.

 

[Christopher]

Maybe she just doesn't get that many quality offers and Person of Interest, Life and The L Word will be her gold standard.

I'd expect an actress as gorgeous and likeable as Shahi would be flooded with offers. But any busy actor is going to have some jobs that are better than others. Few shows could be expected to live up to Person of Interest, but I think Reverie is reasonably good. I can see why it might've appealed to her; after several years playing a character who lacked empathy on PoI, maybe she was drawn to the opportunity to play a character whose empathy is her defining trait and the basis of her work.