New Series: The Nine

I knew next to nothing of this show going in. My knowledge extended to the awareness that Tim Daly, Scott Wolf, Kim Raver and the doctor from Enterprise had a series starting and it really ended about there. And while I like Tim Daly and Scott Wolf it wasn't something I even considered watching.

And then I saw a commercial during Lost, and I'll admit to being intrigued.

So, after Lost ended last week I decided not to change the channel and see what was going down. I saw a couple more faces that I recognised and enjoyed (Chi McBride, Lourdes Benedicto, and Greg's mother from Dharma and Greg) and within three minutes, easily, I was completely sucked into this show. Completely.

It sets up a mystery of what happened in the 52 hours that this group of people, both hostages and robbers, were trapped in the bank. It neatly mixes flashbacks with the present day and the problems that they're facing after coming out of the bank. How existing relationships have changed and how new relationships are being formed.

Despite all of the familiar faces, the character I'm most intrigued with is the bank manager's (McBride) daughter, Felicia. At sixteen, she the youngest of the hostages and has no memory of anything that happened outside of initally seeing her father being lead into the safe at gunpoint. It's through her getting her memories back that I believe we as an audience will get the story as it unfolds.

What I think makes this show so intriguing is a mixture of the mystery about the events of the 52 hours and the relatable characters. The hostages aren't all saints and the robbers aren't entirely evil. The situation got out of hand for everyone involved. It's not just the desire of wanting to know what happened during the robbery but also to see how they put their lives back together again.

I have a feeling that it's going to be good.