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According to one critic, Tru Calling improves over time
Tru Calling
Fox (Thursdays, 8pm ET)
By Terry Kelleher
People Magazine
I don't know how to say this, so I'm just going to say it: "You're going to die today."
Tru (Eliza Dushku from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) may not know how to say it, but she's evidently going to be saying it a lot in this new series, which blends elements of Six Feet Under, Crossing Jordan, and Early Edition. Freshly graduated from college, Tru takes a job at the city morgue because she thinks the resume entry will hep her gain admission to medical school. Naturally the rookie finds herself all alone on the first night and hears spooky whispering coming from the crypts. When curious Tru opens one, a female corpse says, "Help me" in a ton of irresistible urgency. At this point a higher power hits rewind and Tru's day starts all over. Her mission: Do some preventive detective work and keep newly deceased from being killed.
Pay close attention during the Oct. 30th premiere and you'll hear a minor character say Tru used to be a track star. This key bit of background explains why she goes dashing through the streets like a gold medalist every time the script calls for fast action. (One word, Tru: Taxi!) The opener never really makes us care whether the dead women gets a renewed lease on life, and it contains a clumsy late twist with no clear purpose except to establish that this show ain't over till it's over.
Surprisingly, the drama gets better in the second episode, in large part because the Dead Person of the week is a handsome fireman who strikes romantic sparks with Tru. I don't know how often she can fall for a guy who enters her workplace on a slab, but the love element gives this particular story extra poignancy! Also on the plus side, Tru gives running a rest.
"She's hot--weird but hot," a morgue staffer says of Tru. Dusku has the sex appeal, all right, but her character doesn't strike me as especially strange for someone in direct communication with the dead. This show needs to make the supernatural seem less ordinary.
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Have a Little Faith
According to one critic, Tru Calling improves over time
Tru Calling
Fox (Thursdays, 8pm ET)
By Terry Kelleher
People Magazine
I don't know how to say this, so I'm just going to say it: "You're going to die today."
Tru (Eliza Dushku from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) may not know how to say it, but she's evidently going to be saying it a lot in this new series, which blends elements of Six Feet Under, Crossing Jordan, and Early Edition. Freshly graduated from college, Tru takes a job at the city morgue because she thinks the resume entry will hep her gain admission to medical school. Naturally the rookie finds herself all alone on the first night and hears spooky whispering coming from the crypts. When curious Tru opens one, a female corpse says, "Help me" in a ton of irresistible urgency. At this point a higher power hits rewind and Tru's day starts all over. Her mission: Do some preventive detective work and keep newly deceased from being killed.
Pay close attention during the Oct. 30th premiere and you'll hear a minor character say Tru used to be a track star. This key bit of background explains why she goes dashing through the streets like a gold medalist every time the script calls for fast action. (One word, Tru: Taxi!) The opener never really makes us care whether the dead women gets a renewed lease on life, and it contains a clumsy late twist with no clear purpose except to establish that this show ain't over till it's over.
Surprisingly, the drama gets better in the second episode, in large part because the Dead Person of the week is a handsome fireman who strikes romantic sparks with Tru. I don't know how often she can fall for a guy who enters her workplace on a slab, but the love element gives this particular story extra poignancy! Also on the plus side, Tru gives running a rest.
"She's hot--weird but hot," a morgue staffer says of Tru. Dusku has the sex appeal, all right, but her character doesn't strike me as especially strange for someone in direct communication with the dead. This show needs to make the supernatural seem less ordinary.
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