Now and Again
Now and Again
| 24 September 1999 (USA)
SEASON & EPISODES
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    pixzy

    I loved this show when it first aired on CBS. I was upset when it was canceled after only one season. When NBC came out with the new show Reveris this spring staring Denis Haisbert, it reminded me how much I liked him on Now and Again so I desided to see if I could stream it from someone. I found it on YouTube. It's free, no adds. Check it out.

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    joelfinkle

    Here we have a brilliant show, great actors, that the suits just couldn't understand, so they killed it.Admittedly, it was a show about younger actors, on what was still an old fogey network -- CBS, and it was very hard to pin down: A science fiction/comic book concept with a soap-opera plot, occasional musical interludes, and a continuing storyline.The great Dennis Haysbert, the president of the US on another network -- for now -- plays a modern-day Pygmalion/Dr. Frankenstein, inserting subway victim John Goodman's brain into Eric Close's body, and trying to train him to be a loyal government agent.But he loves his wife and family, his whole life, so things have a way of slipping back together again. The number of 'chance encounters' borders on the ridiculous, as does some of the slapstick of being a super-strong android without knowing what your limits are, but that's what makes it real too.After 22 episodes, it ended on a cliffhanger that would be perfectly appropriate in '24' so perhaps Haysbert's new job is just a continuation. But I'd love a reunion movie here.

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    Destron

    This is a really good show. I wonder if it's because there isn't too much action in it. It's more about the characters, really. This is one of those TV shows that shouldn't have gotten the axe so soon.Even a bigger headache for those who loved this show is that the one and only season had to have ended in a cliffhanger with some unresolved subplots.

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    Fafhrd

    This was a great fun series when broadcast here in the UK on the Sci-Fi channel.The character development and interplay between characters and their logical progession throughout the series was very good. Eric Close was the star of the show in more ways than one, his was by far and away the most believeable persona and one could really empathize with his situation (despite the fact it was scientifically ridiculous - so was the Six Million Dollar Man and that didn't exactly flop!) mainly because he played the role so well, the fact that he's seriously cute has nothing to do with it!I think the show had the wrong name and the wrong theme music which is perhaps why they dropped it - not very memorable at all. Maybe they should have ditched the guy who agreed to the series name & theme music instead of the series.If you're lucky enough to get a chance to watch it, do. It's not going to place any great demands on your cerebrum, instead it's a gentle breeze of pleasing entertainment with a nice dry undercurrent of humour which the whole family could watch (I don't remember there having been any bad words!).I hope they bring it out on DVD because if they do, I'd buy it.

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