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"Minority Report" (Monday, 8 p.m., Fox) looks really cool. But I fear that looks may be about the only thing recommending this show.
Yes, it's a sequel to the 2002 film that starred Tom Cruise and was directed by Steven Spielberg. That movie revolved around three siblings — "precogs" — with mental powers that allowed them to know when a murder was going to take place and allow the police to stop crime before it happened.
Oh, and lock up people who hadn't committed a crime yet.
"Minority Report," the TV show, picks up 10 years after the events in the film. One of the precogs, Dash (Stark Sands), is still having mental flashes of murders before the occur, but he can't put it together and prevent any of the crimes.
So he ends up teaming up with a police detective (Meagan Good) … and "Minority Report" looks like it might turn into yet another crime-of-the-week, police procedural.
We've only seen one episode, so we don't know that for sure.
The look of the show is fantastic. Great CGI effects. Whether the producers can afford to keep that up every week remains to be seen.
There is one absolutely delightful moment in the pilot, however. Keep an eye out of the "Simpsons" commercial, and remember that "Minority Report" is set in the year 2065.