This show lasted only one year (1995-96) and I am not sure I saw every episode. Bruce Greenwood plays a photo-documentary maker whose whole existence is erased in the time it takes to use a restroom. It appears everyone in his life has been persuaded to lie to him. He comes to believe that his circumstances relate somehow to a photo he took of four men being hanged in South American.
It harkens to a lot of other movies and shows like CORONET BLUE, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, etc. It was expected to be a huge hit, got great reviews, but disappeared. I love this sort of show, but they often seem to self-destruct. Maybe in 1996 we weren't ready for story arcs quite yet. Or maybe this should have been a movie rather than a TV show since it hung so much on a conceit.
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You see, we have totally opposite viewpoints: I hate stories like this, where you are supposed to believe some vast conspiracy where - as you put it - everyone in his life has been persuaded to lie to him. I just don't believe them, any more than I can believe overarching government conspiracy movies like ENEMY OF THE STATE.
Jeff M.
But that wasn't it exactly. Think more along the lines of MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.
Or an X-FILES where only one government agency, rather than a conspiracy of everyone down to the Freemasons, is after the protag. I think part of the problem was that UPN was so desperate to have something resembling a hit, outside of acceptable numbers for ST: VOYAGER, that they kept casting off their decent (LEGACY, JAKE 2.0) as well as dire series entirely too quickly. A little more patience, as their competitors at the WB were showing, eventually paid off. At least UPN had the wit not to cancel VERONICA MARS.
CORONET BLUE, btw.
I never saw NOWHERE MAN, but now I'm interested in watching an episode.
I definitely don't remember the show, although it seems I've read a story with that title. It's probably not uncommon
Beatles songs have a way of getting phrases before the public.
I loved this show when it was own and, as always with this type of program, was disappointed that it wasn't allowed to come to a logical end.
I relaize that that was a homemade video but the song used is from FOOTLOOSE! I cant' hear it without seeing in my mind Kevin Bacon dancing frenetically with his 80s hair flyign all over the place. I had to laugh.
I don't remember this show at all.
What else has Greenwood done? He looks very familiar. Off to imdb.com to rouse my entertianment filled memory.
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