Since staying home, I've been hooked on this TV series showing on AXN on Starhub cable every weekday at 1pm. It's actually an old series which ran from 1996-2000, think I remember catching a few episodes of it then.
Early Edition is about a bar owner Gary Hobson, who starts receiving tomorrow's paper today. It arrives every morning at 630am with an orange cat who meows to alert him. I like this show because it follows Gary as he goes around each day trying to stop the fatalities he reads in the paper, sometimes even risking his own life in the process.
He's like a superhero, except that he is completely human. The things he does are also comparatively trivial, but make a difference to the people he helps. He also faces moral dilemmas, such as wanting to go back to a 'normal' life, or dealing with depression after failing to save the life of a homeless man. His friends are important as they share his secret and support him when he is demoralised.
The series is interesting also because it deals with the issue of what happens if we change history? Sometimes Gary goes to bed and travels to the past where he stops a big fire etc, and the consequences become evident when he wakes up the next day in present time.
The story does not really explain why and how Gary gets the newspaper, but drops some clues here and there. For example, now we know that there was a man Lucius Snow, who owned the orange cat, and was doing Gary's task before him. Evidence of his existence comes up occasionally when Gary investigates his cases. For e.g, Snow had tried to stop John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 and failed. When Gary got so depressed that he wanted to disown the newspaper, Lucius Snow appears to guide and encourage him.
A combination of mystery-solving and inspiring stories :) And a cute cat!
Labels: Being Random, Homebody
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