From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   https://thespinoff.co.nz/tv/30-03-2019/tru-calling-was-the-worst   
   best-show-and-we-need-it-back/   
      
   Tru Calling was the worst best show and we need it back   
      
   Two seasons, one Eliza Dushku, and a pre-Hangover Zach Galifinakis – how   
   could a show with all this fail? Sam Rutledge writes about the two-season   
   wonder that was Tru Calling.   
      
   I have a controversial opinion for you: the short lived Fox network drama   
   Tru Calling was actually good.   
      
   “Wait, what show?” I hear you ask. Fair question. It really only got one   
   season – plus six episodes that aired out of order because in 2003 TV was   
   the wild west and anything was allowed to happen – then it got cancelled.   
      
   In case you’re unfamiliar; Tru Calling followed Tru Davies, a hopeful   
   medical student who takes a job at a morgue when her internship falls   
   through. She manages to pick up the Creepy Graveyard Shift because of course   
   she does, and it’s under those circumstances she learns of her special   
   spooky gift – people who die “before their time” can ask her for help.   
   Tru’s   
   day rewinds and starts over, and she gets to redo the whole thing to try and   
   save them from their fate. Cool trick!   
      
   If you watched this show in 2003 there’s no way you’d believe that the   
   biggest star was going to be  Zach Galifinakis. He was Tru’s closest   
   confidant and always knew a lot more than he was letting on.   
      
   Eliza Dushku   played the titular Tru with the familiar earnestness, sass   
   and empathy she’s always been great at, and I bet Fox was hoping that since   
   her star was burning bright at the time she was going to swamp them with   
   viewers. Unfortunately they were incorrect.   
      
   It was a kooky, kinda cheesy show. Dead people dramatically turned their   
   heads and whispered help me, but I’ve seen much dumber shows with worse   
   actors go for way more seasons.   
      
   Christina Hendricks was a guest star! Cobie Smulders was a guest star!   
   Jeffery Dean Morgan was a guest star! What more did anyone want.   
      
   After the first few establishing episodes and a few genuinely interesting   
   twists, we met Tru’s opposite. He was the dude who was out to make sure the   
   dead people who asked for help died again on a rewind. Like a yang to her   
   yin type of thing. Played by Jason Priestley, Jack wasn’t pure evil or just   
   out to get his kicks, he was a legitimately great addition to the base   
   mechanism of the show. His presence deepened the mythology to ask the   
   question: is Tru’s intervening in these people’s lives actually the right   
   thing to do?   
      
           [I watched, being a Faith fan, But it wasn't until they introduced   
   Jack (who I think was actually her brother) and her father (if I'm   
   remembering correct), that it got really interesting.]   
      
      
   David   
      
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