Ok to the unenlightened... in other words, all of you
this is a cool show :P
its on LATE friday nights, as far as I know its a variable timeslot due to movies.. theres been 2 episodes so far and they are cool, milenko and leonami agree.
This dude basically woke up in the middle of something like a meteorite crater on some pacific island and has no memory of who he is, but knows everything else, like encyclopaedia only with phonebooks and manuals and shit for everything.. he knows EVERYTHING...
show is kinda like the pretender only much better :P
anyway he has loads of money cos he knows lots of shit about gambling and stock exchange, and now he solves cases for the police with his amazing knowledges.
point to note, this dude is colourblind, but if he sees something important, it shows up in colour, like in the pilot he saw a picture of a kidnapped little girl and then he went and found her. He also saw some woman who knew him, but she was on a departing ferry and he has no idea what the deal is...
there has also been the obligatory conspiracy factor added in the 2nd episode with some turkbaghistan uber modern company run by some old woman being all "omg look at this, its the dude.. quick look smug"
yeah so she obviously knows who he is and wants his kidneys for genemotical researches :|
lol well theres nothing to do that late at night so that timeslot is awesome!... but I think it will move to mainstream television soon cos I mean its taht good... btw when you do watch it.. its more fun to jump onto DGA IRC and talk about it in ads.
the show has been cancelled by fox the f***ers and the first season ends on a cliff hanger. One whopper of a cliffhanger. I personally am very pissed off now that i wont find out what happens after so im recommending others to avoid the dissapointment.
Interesting info about the guy who plays John Doe :)
Quote: Born in England but raised in Australia by his Norwegian father and Irish mother, Purcell was a bored landscaper who decided to attend a drama school. He became a TV star in Australia before debuting in America as the title character in "John Doe" (2002). In 2000, he won the Green Card lottery and now lives in Los Angeles with his family
He was also a classmate of Hugh Jackman at the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts :o