'ABC's latest attempt to find a genre hit in the 'Lost' space features a terrific Allison Tolman.' Read the review for Emergence – premiering tonight:
andeven got second seasons. Some had devoted fan bases. None reached an end that satisfied those fans. Yet ABC has kept trying, an aspiration stretching across multiple entertainment presidents and countless development regimes.is not a successor to this string of failures. Creators Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters previously worked onEmergenceIt's with tempered pleasure that I can report the pilot forspawn standards.
One failing consistent to many of these ABC duds has been needless initial complication and if I were to list my favorite thing about, it's that it's atypically clean, narratively. Allison Tolman plays Jo, police chief in a midsize Long Island town. Newly divorced from Alex , Jo lives with her former firefighter father Ed and her daughter .
Maybe some of that stuff will come along in upcoming weeks. I can't say for sure. But I know that in the short term, a great joy is that the show's core family is nicely and pleasantly functional. Jo and Alex may have separated, but they have a great and winning affection. Their daughter isn't acting out and the temporary addition of a new "sister" to the family doesn't cause her untoward jealousy.
The primary result is that this is a family I might actually want to spend 42 minutes a week with. They relate to each other in likable and affectionate ways and Faison, Brown and Aufderheide are agreeably at ease for a show whose premise will eventually demand that everything go haywire. This leaves room for Jo to be smart and capable on her own as she begins to explore the show's various puzzles and makes it easy to understand why people would trust her and respond to her with respect and warmth. She's not a TV Vocational Irony Narrative heroine — capable at work, but a mess at home or vice versa. Boosted by associations with a similar and similarly strong turn in the first season of— swap in Clancy Brown in Keith Carradine — Tolman settles effortlessly into the role.
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