Bingo Point Defying Gravity Sundays at 10 PM, ABC “Rubicon” Written by Meredith Lavender & Marcie Ulin Directed by Fred Gerber It’s a good thing everyone in this show wears name patches on their jumpsuits, because otherwise I’d have a hard time telling them apart. Accents don’t make a character, but that’s really all I have to distinguish some of the female characters. Apart from the leads, everyone’s role is so generic and indistinguishable, they may as well just walk around with character labels on their heads: Jock, Doc, Vulnerable Female, and so forth. Matters are not helped by the…
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Defying Gravity: “Threshold”
Astro-Naughts Defying Gravity Sundays at 10 PM, ABC “Threshold” Written by Sheri Elwood Directed by Peter Howitt Defying Gravity wants to be a hipper, updated version of Star Trek, but it’s more like Lost in space right now. There’s the same sense of isolation countered with innumerable, vivid flashbacks, the same menace lurking just out of sight, the sense that the characters have less freedom of choice than they appear to. I get it that this is a scripted show modeled, like Lost, on the idea of a reality show–people are dumped into a hostile, confined environment and told to survive. But the romance…