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  Total Recall 2070

   • j********o@***.com
     09/03/1999 00:00:000 UTC

     The new series on Showtime premiered this week, and looks like it will
     run

     Fridays at 10:45 pm. Pretty damn cool! Production values were lavish,

     atmospheric, and cinematic. The pilot ran an hour and a half, with a lot
     of

     story to tell and two crimes to connect. Based on the first episode, I

     recommend it heartily, and suggest catching up with the pilot before
     Friday.

     It's a detective series set in a world that's a genteel version of
     Bladerunner

     plus Total Recall: the megacorps of the Consortium can get away with
     murder,

     but only if they navigate the loopholes in the Inter-Planetary Council's
     law

     very carefully. Meanwhile, the police of the Citizens' Protection Bureau
     are

     willing to overlook a few technicalities to pursue justice and thwart
     the

     amoral plans of the megacorporations.

     The protagonist is Detective David Hume, whose partner is killed by
     rogue

     androids early in the pilot episode. Such a killing hasn't occured in
     the

     decades since tighter controls on android programming were adopted. Mrs.
     Hume

     is the daughter of a bladerunner, killed in the line of duty back in the
     days

     when there were bladerunners, and she isn't too happy to see her husband

     following in her father's footsteps. One of Hume's bosses has a beef
     with

     Rekall. Hume's new partner is, surprise! a bio-android. Together they
     pursue

     the killer androids and a mysteriously related case involving a
     distraught and

     confused immigrant couple. They come into conflict with Rekall's head of

     security, Mr. Collector, as evidence points towards his company. They
     pursue

     the androids to Mars. It's cool.

     Gorno

       • j********o@***.com
         21/03/1999 00:00:000 UTC

         Second episode was pretty good too, although only 45 minutes long
         (expect to

         see it syndicated some day...) The main character's principle
         function seems

         to be to throw tantrums... His wife responds to depression in a
         rather unusual

         way, doesn't she?

         Gorno