Please suspend your disbelief, willingly
One explanation behind hypnosis is that there is a willing suspension of disbelief. There you are, a perfect rationale for some of the stuff we get on network TV drama.
This season, someone decided to revive a series from a generation ago and see if the audience was any more gullible this time around. The title is Human Target and the premise is one that might require a small dose of that hypnotic stuff. I didn’t see the eponymous series the first time around, and it doesn’t really matter.
You see, for those of us who have been around the couch for a few seasons, this series is a poor child of Mission: Impossible. Oh sure, there’s a smaller cast of regulars, and the scenery is current, and there’s no secret agency working in the nether reaches of a poor dictator-run country, but we’re there.
Christopher Chance is a Walmart James Bond, with less gadgets and fewer hotties. He takes on jobs that see him providing specialized protection (no, not as a bodyguard, exactly) and manages to get into cool fight scenes in tunnels and gondola cars. He also dresses up as a monk, if the need arises. OK, only in tonight’s episode, but that doesn’t detract from the cool factor.
Back to the willing suspension thing. This episode saw us in a monastery high on a cliff near Port Cartier. All wrong, but the audience won’t know that (until I tell them). The first episode saw us parasailing out of the back of a high speed passenger train. All wrong, again. In fact, the whole show is like a comic book come to life. Probably going to be the hit series of the season.
