Unlike most people here I watch several episodes before I make up my mind about a TV series or movie.
But with Touch it's very clear: the concept so brilliantly presented in the first episode already falls apart in the second episode.
The magic and the big surprise from episode 1 are gone in episode 2. We already know that the kid has some special power to link people and locations together to help someone by the end of the episode.
And where this concept was presented delicately in episode 1, it has been done over the top in episode 2. Martin Bohm only seems to be shouting at his son: 'What do you mean with this? What do you mean with that?'
You already know that you have to just sit and wait for the end result at the end, you already know that most of the characters you start with in the beginning will be connected, yada yada yada. There will be no surprise, so it's utterly boring.
Another (lesser) mistake in episode 2 is the role of Clea Hopkins (Gugu Mbatha-Raw). Yes, she is still really pretty, but she doesn't add anything to the story and could have been easily replaced by anyone else. So no character building there.
Furthermore, in the first episode Clea Hopkins understood the kid special situation in the end, so why take ten steps back and be the annoying woman from child protective services?
And then the kid. I believed him in the first episode, but in the second he just looks and acts too much like a normal kid. It doesn't help that he talks to the audience in a voice over at the beginning of the episode. So he can talk?! And he knows it's strange that he never said a word?! So basically there is no reason for him not to speak? Urgh.
The concept for Touch's episode 1 is great, brilliant even, but is only suitable for a movie. If Tim Kring keeps repeating this same formula for every next episode he will be in for a treat.
The right thing to do here is to simply create new concepts within the magical universe of episode 1. Surprise me.
But with Touch it's very clear: the concept so brilliantly presented in the first episode already falls apart in the second episode.
The magic and the big surprise from episode 1 are gone in episode 2. We already know that the kid has some special power to link people and locations together to help someone by the end of the episode.
And where this concept was presented delicately in episode 1, it has been done over the top in episode 2. Martin Bohm only seems to be shouting at his son: 'What do you mean with this? What do you mean with that?'
You already know that you have to just sit and wait for the end result at the end, you already know that most of the characters you start with in the beginning will be connected, yada yada yada. There will be no surprise, so it's utterly boring.
Another (lesser) mistake in episode 2 is the role of Clea Hopkins (Gugu Mbatha-Raw). Yes, she is still really pretty, but she doesn't add anything to the story and could have been easily replaced by anyone else. So no character building there.
Furthermore, in the first episode Clea Hopkins understood the kid special situation in the end, so why take ten steps back and be the annoying woman from child protective services?
And then the kid. I believed him in the first episode, but in the second he just looks and acts too much like a normal kid. It doesn't help that he talks to the audience in a voice over at the beginning of the episode. So he can talk?! And he knows it's strange that he never said a word?! So basically there is no reason for him not to speak? Urgh.
The concept for Touch's episode 1 is great, brilliant even, but is only suitable for a movie. If Tim Kring keeps repeating this same formula for every next episode he will be in for a treat.
The right thing to do here is to simply create new concepts within the magical universe of episode 1. Surprise me.