Minority Report

Max Borenstein's Minority Report goes to painstaking lengths to stick with the mythology from the original movie, and the actual essence of Philip K Dick's novel is still intact. The first episode does a good job of circumventing the paradox of shutting down Pre-Crime by introducing us to dangerous villains who threaten the lives of our heroes.

The good news is that Minority Report looks great on the small screen. It features a lot of technological touches that look as cool as the 2002 movie. Unfortunately, for every fun technology nod--like watches that fly and turn into cameras—there's a groan-worthy reference to "the classics" like "Iggy Azalea." Those comments aside, the conversations between Vega and Dash and her frienemy police partner Will Blake are pretty enjoyable.

However, Minority Report is clearly not the best of shows to pilot this fall. Still, there is more intrigue to this than a lot of the other case-of-the-week shows, and the premise and mythology are sound. We all know Fox's track record with sci-fi programs, but with a little luck and an already built-in audience, Minority Report could be a good fit for the network. In a world where Bones is still in the schedule, that's a good thing.

They reported that work was done for weeks to get the choreography of scanning a crime scene for information correct, similar to how Tom Cruise scanned crimes in the movie, so there's definitely a heavy attention to detail. Still, with dropping viewership every week, Fox cut the season short by 3 episodes early last month. Based on the episodes so far, we'll have to wait and see if it all comes together into a cohesive and compelling narrative; otherwise hopes are slim to say the least.