10 Fall 2012 Shows Worth Your Time

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REVOLUTION

The best what if shows tap into the zeitgeist with prescience and precision. Right now in the real world, the sustainability movement is full roar, with hipsters raising their own chickens and families heating their homes with solar panels all while being more digitally connected than we ever could have imagined. So a show whose vision of a post-apocalyptic world with no electricity is part agrarian-utopia,

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Photo by: Courtesy of NBC

REVOLUTION

The best what if shows tap into the zeitgeist with prescience and precision. Right now in the real world, the sustainability movement is full roar, with hipsters raising their own chickens and families heating their homes with solar panels all while being more digitally connected than we ever could have imagined. So a show whose vision of a post-apocalyptic world with no electricity is part agrarian-utopia, part lawless-wasteland seems dead-on for this uneasy moment in time. J.J. Abrams (Lost, Fringe) and Jon Favreau (Ironman), have come together to bring us Revolution from Eric Kripke (Supernatural) which imagines what the world would be like 15 years after the lights go out. The cast is crazy good: Billy Burke (Sheriff Swan! Twilight!) and Elizabeth Mitchell (V, Lost) are tough and battle-worn, and newcomers Tracy Spiridakos and Graham Rogers are young and brave and gorgeous. This show seems a little less dark than others of its type, presenting the possibility that some things might just get better _ while acknowledging much might be worse. The first episode totally hooked me, as did the show's creators assurances that they know exactly where they're going and how to get there. I'm coming with.

Premiere: Monday, September 17, 10pm NBC

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