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Believe is about an unlikely relationship between a gifted young girl and a man sprung from prison who has been tasked with protecting her from the evil elements that hunt her power.

Series Produced by
Timothy A. Good ... co-producer (7 episodes, 2014)
J.J. Abrams ... executive producer (4 episodes, 2014)
Bryan Burk ... executive producer (1 episode, 2014)
Alfonso Cuarón ... executive producer (1 episode, 2014)
Mark Friedman ... executive producer (1 episode, 2014)
Kathy Lingg ... co-executive producer (1 episode, 2014)
Cecilia Kate Roque ... co-producer (1 episode, 2014)
Joseph Stern ... producer (1 episode, 2014)
Athena Wickham ... producer (1 episode, 2014)
 
Started off well and went steadily downhill from there - I'll be surprised if it makes it past mid-season.
 
They need to ditch the main guy constantly questioning things, it's like every 10 minutes he forgets what the girl can do, which makes the constant arguments they have so unreal.

It feels like Touch all over again, except the kid talks.
 
Abrams again..he has these great ideas but then seems to just lose his way

this will be another alcatraz
 
I thought the second episode was a whole lot better than the pilot - I'm hoping it will develop into something like Firestarter.
 
ChrisJSY said:
They need to ditch the main guy constantly questioning things, it's like every 10 minutes he forgets what the girl can do, which makes the constant arguments they have so unreal.

It feels like Touch all over again, except the kid talks.
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I said the same thing regarding in the Resurrection thread, this show feels like touch and no doubt another show to be canned.

How many tv shows just repeating what heroes and every other show down already lol

Ill give it till episode 3-4.... so far though Resurrection is feeling the better show but its on the same page as this show.
 
Don't know if I'll last with this one as I'm sick of the putting right something that once went wrong every episode.

Also why stay so open on the bloody streets when there's a city wide search on for you? Poorly written.
 
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Any show aired after 7pm revolving around character played by a kid, is doomed from the start.

Primo, because audiences, as a whole, do not care about kid characters. It's tough, but it's true. Most show runners understand this simple rule and most shows use kids for us to hate and side with parents/minders. That's the case with kids in Walking Dead, that was the case with kids in Lost. That's the case with kids in any show running longer than a year. From The Middle all the way to Star Trek. Kids included in support cast of the shows are there to frustrate the audience. And we are all going to get frustrated with the lead, and by episode 5 we are all going to be tired by just how the kid can do anything with her superpowers when it doesn't matter but struggles to save her own skin in crucial moment, every time in every episode.

Secundo. You never, ever, ever, don't know if I said this already - EVER - base any long term lead on a kid under age of 18 unless you can provide and maintain very long time jumps in your story arc. In US you usually shoot seasons in two installations because no network will issue full season order. Between pilot and continuation of season 1 "after hiatus" there will be often 12-18 months in production where the kid has to look the same for the story arc to pick up where it left of. Kids grow. Very fast. Just look at Carl in the last season of Walking Dead. Start of the season, while in prison he's still a kid. Season finale, just two-three weeks down in storyline, he's already a teenager, and they had to make him bigger hat and shoot everything with his character in perspective to maintain the look. They had to kill off Walt in Lost, because he shot up in size across one season. All this show needed, was for the girl to be Summer Glau-ish looking adult-play-late-teenager actress and for the "minder" to be Liam Neeson-ish "anywhere between 40 and 60" tough guy. Done. Sustainable.

As it stands, it will be miracle if this show goes past 12 episodes.
 
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That's quite a good point, Touch did well at least to get a second season which was much better than the first one, though I think a lot of people had given up on it by the end of season one.
 
After ep 3, it has a high production but the idea that she helps people every episode when they are being man hunted by all of nypd and several agencies is just ridiculous.

I just don't know how they can keep up the chase like that, I can't see it going anywhere else.
 
Am waiting for that girl to meet the kid from Touch series... maybe then both can come to a conclusion and finish whatever those shows were on about.

I am ready to quit resurrection and believe at this point may add star cross to that list
 
v0n said:
Any show aired after 7pm revolving around character played by a kid, is doomed from the start.

Primo, because audiences, as a whole, do not care about kid characters. It's tough, but it's true. Most show runners understand this simple rule and most shows use kids for us to hate and side with parents/minders. That's the case with kids in Walking Dead, that was the case with kids in Lost. That's the case with kids in any show running longer than a year. From The Middle all the way to Star Trek. Kids included in support cast of the shows are there to frustrate the audience. And we are all going to get frustrated with the lead, and by episode 5 we are all going to be tired by just how the kid can do anything with her superpowers when it doesn't matter but struggles to save her own skin in crucial moment, every time in every episode.
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This happens in films too. I first noticed it in Jurassic Park, the kids annoyed me, were constantly in peril, and basically making things more difficult for the adults. And I was a kid at the time myself!
 
Started watching this last night, already got through 4 episodes. I really like it, it's quite a similar premise to Touch (season one specifically) but better written and executed. Bo's character is great and really well-acted, she reminds me of Ellie in The Last Of Us a lot too.

Won't surprise me to see it get cancelled after one season sadly, these sorts of shows so often do, but from what I've seen so far, I'll be crossing my fingers for it.
 
bet its cancelled

strange they would even release a show which was similar in nature to touch guess they figured the super powers element may draw in the geeks but no
 
not officially cancelled yet but they've pulled it (and Crisis) from the schedules so whether they will even show the last three episodes is anybody's guess.
 
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