Birthing Pangs by Sarah Stegall copyright 1999 by Sarah Stegall “Lullaby” written by Tim Minear directed by Joseph Scanlan Dr. Paul Turner’s mission is to combat “criminal abuses of science”, which makes him sound rather like a modern version of Captain America. This could easily turn into farce, with the cardboard bad guys and tinsel good guys of your average medical or legal drama. Fortunately, this is not going to happen as long as the producers and writers of “Strange World”, ABC’s new science fiction drama, keep tossing ambiguous story lines at us, like last Tuesday’s “Lullaby”. It’s easy to…
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Strange World: “Pilot”
“Strange World” by Sarah Stegall copyright © 1999 by Sarah Stegall “Pilot” Written by Howard Gordon and Tim Kring Directed by Mick Jackson If, as a reviewer, I have a mantra, it is “The pilot is not the series”. So many good shows start slow and build into better series than we had reason to expect (“Strange Luck“, “Nowhere Man”, “Space: Above and Beyond”), while hundreds of others fall over a cliff as soon as they go into regular production (“The Burning Zone”, “Millennium“), that I have taken it as a rule never to review a show until the third…