Now and Again

1999

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Now and Again is an American television series that aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain. In an attempt to get the project up and running, they take the brain of overweight family man Michael Wiseman, who is killed by a train. Given a new life, Michael is kept in an apartment where he is trained by government experts, led by Dr. Theodore Morris, in the art of espionage. Despite his new life and new abilities, Michael longs to return to his wife Lisa and daughter Heather, who are themselves discovering that not all is as it seems with Michael's death.

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.
Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
oldromantic I STILL think about this show every time I see Eric Close on Without a Trace or Dennis Haysbert on those All-State commercials and wonder, why in the world was it canceled??? Just the thought makes me want to cry and it's been six years since it happened! Hooked from the very first episode, I never missed even one. I was a sucker for the unusual romance between Michael and Lisa, and I was curious how they were going to have their relationship evolve. Everything about the show was interesting, from the action of the missions to Michael's snarky sense of humor... I believe that the show could've lasted many years had it been given the chance.I've often wondered if perhaps part of its downfall was that it premiered at around the same time with another show with a similar name on a different network, and the similarity caused too much confusion. I know it did when I would mention the show to any of my family and friends. And because Now and Again was the least popular of the two, it was the one that was sacrificed. My only hope at this point is that the networks have learned their lessons...and we won't lose any more of the shows that we love. But I would still love to have our precious one season of Now and Again on DVD!!
ddmod And the "genius" that canceled it should be shot as well. I loved this show and NEVER missed it. All these years later it still pains me to see the cast working on other projects when they should be celebrating the continued success of Now and Again. Eric Close, Margaret Colin, Dennis Haysbert, John Goodman (althought all too briefly) did and outstanding job. This was a great premise and the writing and production quality were brilliant. I would still love to see the cast reunite and make a movie to close the cliffhanger ending that never closed when the show didn't return for the second season. Then bring the whole thing out on DVD. Great premise, great cast, great characters, and plots, I'll never understand why it was canceled.
carflo I first caught this show early Sunday morning on the Sci Fi channel. The quality of the episode and the early morning air time told me that the series had already been canceled. I have still never seen the pilot with John Goodman, but I have seen most of the episodes. It is a marvelous show. Eric Close is brilliant as Mr. Wiseman, the human guinea pig of a government experiment in creating a super soldier/agent. His humor in dealing with the dour Dr. Morris and his almost palpable yearning for his wife and daughter left me with an aching pain for a man caught in a surreal nightmare. What makes it even more poignant is Wiseman's refusal to allow himself to be just a guinea pig. He adamantly asserts his humanity and forces Dr. Morris to accept it also. Dennis Haysbert is Dr. Theodore Morris, the brilliant but tightly wound Frankenstein creator of a most uncooperative monster. One of the great aspects of this show is the fact that Dr. Morris is not a villain. He is a complex man who needs the humanity his creation forces from him. Wiseman refuses to let Morris be a cold and heartless mad scientist. He picks and prods and digs out all of humanity that Dr. Morris tries so hard to bury.Margaret Colin and Heather Matarazzo are Lisa Wiseman, his grieving widow, and Heather Wiseman, his grieving and angry daughter. They are confused and frightened of this strange handsome young man who calls himself Mr. Newman. He moves in and out of their reality doing inexplicable things (such as asking Lisa to hold an egg without breaking it on a busy subway platform) and displaying an uncannily intimate knowledge of their lives and thoughts.Now and Again was intelligent, touching and funny all at the same time and it was much too good to last.
Fafhrd This was a great fun series when broadcast here in the UK on the Sci-Fi channel.The character development and interplay between characters and their logical progession throughout the series was very good. Eric Close was the star of the show in more ways than one, his was by far and away the most believeable persona and one could really empathize with his situation (despite the fact it was scientifically ridiculous - so was the Six Million Dollar Man and that didn't exactly flop!) mainly because he played the role so well, the fact that he's seriously cute has nothing to do with it!I think the show had the wrong name and the wrong theme music which is perhaps why they dropped it - not very memorable at all. Maybe they should have ditched the guy who agreed to the series name & theme music instead of the series.If you're lucky enough to get a chance to watch it, do. It's not going to place any great demands on your cerebrum, instead it's a gentle breeze of pleasing entertainment with a nice dry undercurrent of humour which the whole family could watch (I don't remember there having been any bad words!).I hope they bring it out on DVD because if they do, I'd buy it.