Terra Nova

Any show with Stephen Spielberg's name attached to it is going to get attention and this show has. Deservedly so. This show is set in the mid twenty second century and the world has become and enviromental disaster with people wearing masks and struggling to breathe.

Jim Shannon, his wife Elisabeth and their children Josh, Maddy and Zoe travel 85 million years into the past to the Crustecean period. Scientiests had discovered a way to travel back in time without causing a butterfly effect in time, as they are on " a different time stream."

The show was entertaining. Some of the visuals were stunning, a shot of the youngest daughter five year old Zoe feeding a long necked dino some plants was pretty amazing.

The cast features many folks I did not know but it was well acted. The issue for me was mostly that the story itself is not great. It appears that the leader of the community appears to be a good person who genuinley cares about the folks in his community. However at the end of the first episode we see that there is more afoot than we know.

Surely the mystery will unfold. The show is expensive to make so the ratings will need to be good. I plan to watch the show, not sure it is a keeper but worth checking out for a bit. I do not think it will be a hit however. It will get its full run of thirteen episodes as at 4 million per Fox will air them but will have to do well to merit a renewal. I have not seen enough yet to think that likely.