Pilot Watch: A Gifted Man
  Kelly Bedard

A Gifted Man is not a new show. I mean, it is a new show- a CBS Friday night experiment in unconventional procedural drama- but it adheres to a formula that’s been produced three notable times before. Wonderfalls, Joan of Arcadia and (most similarly) Eli Stone are all what I call “prophet shows”: client/case/patient-of-the-week agnostic […]

Television Prophets
  Kelly Bedard

All hail the the almighty end of the writers strike. That being said, there’s another almighty at work in today’s TV climate- the actual almighty. Considering all the shows in question thought themselves completely original at the time of conception, it’s almost surprising that in the span of the last 2 weeks Ive come in […]