Day Break is the exact opposite of 24, and I’m loving every minute of it. I had been waiting for this one ever since I watched a trailer off a Whedonesque (Joss Whedon fansite) link talking about Adam Baldwin’s involvement. I saw the trailer and figured it’d be worth my time to give it a try. Once I found out it was taking the place of Lost during its hiatus, I knew I would have the time and had to go for it.
The show delivers just what the promos promise: an action-packed show about a cop framed for murder who, after going through everything the first day, has to live that day again. The two-hour premiere goes through four of these days, each of which is entirely different, proving that the premise really does work, at least so far. I’m an optimist on these things, so I think it will continue to work. It should be interesting.
One aspect of the show I enjoyed was that it had two separate parties working against Hopper (Taye Diggs). There’s his own people, who have to work against him because of the evidence, and there’s the conspiracy we still know little about. The addition of this third party framing him (which appears to be a large group of conspirators run by one mysterious man) gives the show enough plot to be interesting for so many episodes, since depending on how Hopper spends each day, new details are discovered. It should be very interesting to see if he is able to turn their moves against them once he knows what they’re trying to do.
I can see this show being a success if people watch it, and I’m telling you right now, you should. The only thing I hope they do is make sure they respectfully end it at the end of its 13-episode run. I’d hate to see this thing drag out too far and long, especially since its role as a mini-series seems to give it a chance to last just the right length.
