American producer and director JJ Abrams, known for the last film in the series "Star Trek", invented and who shot the "Lost" is truly indefatigable: for every television season, he comes out with a new project. Last year, he led the launch of television series "Revolution."

What is clear is that nothing is clear

The idea of ​​the new project belongs to another well-known screenwriter Eric Kripke, he shared it with Abrams and together they went to work. "Revolution" is shot in the style of a favorite Abramas that something is happening, but no one is clear what is happening and why. In the first series of mysterious reasons of humanity is left without electricity in the world, turn off all energy sources. Years later, in the small village of his father, Charlie Matheson (Tracy Spiridakos) killed soldiers from the army Monroe, usurped power in the region.

Charlie, according to the order of a dying father, goes in search of his uncle, Miles (Billy Burke), to help her younger brother Danny to return the kidnapped soldiers. Together with her in this way is sent to a friend of her father, Aaron (Zak Orth). Charlie quickly realizes that life in a small settlement had not prepared her for what is happening in the world, survivors of the apocalypse; Fortunately, Uncle Miles is a very experienced fighter and agrees to go in search of Danny. However, on the way to the reunification of family heroes are faced with various obstacles, learn about each other's past, as well as find links that suddenly lead to the mystery of the disappearance of the energy on the planet.

Let's write a story line, and then, as it will

Fans TV series "Lost" and "Fringe" is easy to find characteristic features of authorship Abrams and "Revolution." Start the series - this is only a starting point, the plot attractive bait that will force viewers to peck and turn on the TV. After five or six episodes the viewer realizes that everything he reported earlier, it makes no sense, because there is a new character and says something that does not coincide with the data available. Another feature of this series - it's flashbacks, persistent memories, which allow to complete the picture and determines the relationships between the characters.

Soaps, which manages JJ Abrams is impossible to predict how to critics and fans have not tried, because nobody except him can not deploy the drama so that it becomes clear that everything that happens on the screen - this is nothing more than a dream butterfly, which dreams that she Buddhist monk. Despite numerous assurances writing team (which works with him for years, and jumps from one project to another) that the plot for several seasons thought out in advance and each time goes to its logical conclusion, "Revolution", as well as other projects "leaves the impression of spontaneity narrative changes. As soon as the viewer has time to understand and adopt the proposed picture of the world, the authors break all expectations and come up with something else.

Why shoot the drama

The "revolution" of the sponsors invited great actors: Billy Burke and Elizabeth Mitchell (Elizabeth last came to the project, and because of her retake the pilot). NBC approved without objection a novelty - once for a full season because of a promising project stood name Abrams and his team.

Start at the "revolution" turned out not too successful. During the season the project was collecting different ratings, forcing the channel to reduce the number of the ordered series of twenty. However, the project was able to equalize in the spring in the rankings and get an extension for a second season.

"Revolution" never succeed "Lost," in spite of all the intricacies of the plot lines and dramatic play on the disappearance of electricity: there are mysteries in the series, but there is no drama. Relations between the characters only occasionally reach an acceptable intensity, but otherwise - they are indifferent to each other. United States - this is not a small island where you can monitor what is happening, it is a huge field for the development of events, but the scale of the narrative series is missing. The news story as usual a lot of holes and unsaid, knowing the history of other serials Abrams, do not look at what the authors answer at least half of the questions, that somehow affected the show. But "revolution" - a beautiful idea postapokalipsisa, though idealized, but very fresh: without zombies and without suffering about how good was the world before the energy is over.

Anna Chizh

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