Coming Home Terra Nova Fox Network, Mondays, 8 PM “The Runaway” Written by Barbara Marshall Directed by Jon Cassar “What’s in the box that’s so important?” – Jim In my last review I was writing Terra Nova off as an artistic failure. Now, I think there’s hope. In what is, so far, the best episode of the season, we finally get some realistic dialogue, action and plotting. We even get some scary moments with dinosaurs, who continue to be the most elusive and believable characters on this show. This episode takes a cliched story and humanizes it, finally using the talents established…
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Terra Nova: “What Remains”
Cognitive Regression Terra Nova Fox Network, Mondays, 8 PM “What Remains” Written by Brynne Malone Directed by Nelson McCormick “It appears to involve cognitive regression to a point in the patient’s history.” — Elizabeth We’ve been told for several years now that some things are too big to fail; certainly, a TV show backed by Steven Spielberg and a $30 million budget should fall into that category. And with relatively consistent ratings in the 3.0 range, Terra Nova will probably hang on long enough to be renewed for a second season. But there is commercial failure, and there is artistic failure. In…