“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…
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Strange Luck: “Blindman’s Bluff”
Blind Man’s Bluff by Sarah Stegall copyright 1995 by Sarah Stegall Surely it is no coincidence that right after the OJ Simpson “not guilty” verdict electrifies America, we get an episode of “Strange Luck” built around a racially charged trial, an Eastern Jewish defense lawyer, and a white supremacist cop. There’s a fine line between being topical and being exploitative, and I am not sure but what Strange Luck has crossed it. Chance Harper is mistaken for a hitman and finds himself very briefly in possession of ten thousand dollars in cash–before a pickpocket steals it. His attempts to enlist…