Shark Bytes

My wife loved this show. Maybe it was the lead actor. Me, I was bored to tears by the detective stuff - nothing special about it at all - but was intrigued by the premise about a guy who can't die. When my wife was watching this I got up and washed the dishes when they had to go running around trying to solve some murder and came back when he had his historical flashbacks. If they hadn't made it a detective show and had focused more on the historical aspect it might have lasted a little longer. Maybe someone else will dust off this premise and give it the right treatment.

HOW CAN FOX CANCEL THIS SHOW?!?!

A protagonist who's immortal who can only become mortal by finding his 'true love' lives centuries- yet has lots of wives, girlfriends and kids in the meantime. Wouldn't that make the protagonist a cad or 'playa' instead of sympathetic? Even his son Omar's mother who'd died young somehow didn't qualify as 'true love'. I think it would have more interesting had nobly stayed celibate while struggling with his immortality due to not wanting to drag a good woman down like the legendary Flying Dutchman doomed to sail forever until he could find a woman willing to sacrifice her life for him! And I agree with how bogus it was to have the Manhattan 17th Century Native Americans in teepees instead of long houses.

I love the premise but how long can it go without jumping? Long, I hope. Love the complexity of the historic references. I have watched each episode twice to see how things revealed at the end of each show were developed. Intellectually satisfying, which is rare in today's shows.

I think for me it jumps the shark everytime the corny indian woman thing comes on.

Really, if the american natives could achieve immortality do you really think they'd have lost all the land?

Just a thought....

I think the show rocks! Don't tell me living forever wouldn't rock. Maybe the people should actually watch the show before the post stuff about it!!!!

"Jumped first show. Guy knows everything. Guy lives forever. Yuk!
Mar 11, 2008 6:29 AM guest"

I agree.

The premise of the entire series is just an embellished, dressed-up revision of "The Second Hundred Years" getting its chance to formally jump the shark. Remember this show about a guy who was found frozen in a glacier and thawed out like a seat-of-the-pants cryogenic procedure actually working (ala "Sleeper" with Woody Allen)? "The Second Hundred Years" started out on being a novel critique of American rugged-independence ways and values watered-down to acouch-potato consumeristic society and quickly ran out of interesting material.

It's even got the same my-descendant-is-older-than-me gimmick. I'm surprised the previews don't also have him waking up in a cold sweat and shooting the TV with a vintage firearm like a blunderbuss!

True Brett. So far, so good is an exellent idea! Love this show anyway. Often a show can jump all over the place many times and you just still love it. A show can also work well, jump, work well again and so forth.

sorry for the possible snark post but - yeah, this show debuted on March 4th. It's now the 21st and there are already 19 votes for never having jumped? If you like the show, great. I mean it, enjoy the show, but isn't this sight about when you think a show has jumped? And isn't it a little too early to tell? For the same reason, the Day One category should be deleted. Obviously if you did not like the show from day one it never had a chance to jump because you did not like it in the first place. Really only shows that are now off the air should be able to qualify for the never jumped category, because a person has had a chance to see all the episodes unlike a current show when you don't know if it will get crappy or not? (I wonder how many people who posted Never Jumped for the Simpson or SNL are rethinking that statement) So, no offense to all the people who like this show. Maybe we should have a new category: "So Far, So Good". Like I said, I am not bashing anyone's opinion about the show.

I think this show will work. It has a lot going for it, however, I don't like the male/female partnership. That dynamic is done to death and bores me. Give him a male partner, someone with some angst of his own but likeable and as clever and witty as his partner.

Love it!

To Try to suspend disbelief,

It showed, in the second ep, how in the 1940's, he was a lawyer-with the name John York. I assume he changes his ID and profession every few decades or so, so next time, pay attention! LOVE the background and flashbacks; HATE the modern police drama, which is basically a third-rate L&O. LOVE the actual NYC on location shots! HATE the female partner-god she was even more boring on here than in ROME!

It is impossible for a show with a guy this smoking HOT to Jump the Shark. It just goes directly from Show With Potential to Guilty Pleasure (a la Charmed - the Cole years)...

just saw the pilot episode (gotta love your dvr) and i really enjoyed. it has great potential like everyone else has said. love how his kids are oldsters.

Jumped first show. Guy knows everything. Guy lives forever. Yuk!