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I left America for 5 years in June, 1995 and missed this when it came out. I discovered it recently through reading the reviews at Amazon. What a gem! Jewish-American writer Lawrence Hertzog is the creator of this sci-fi thriller. He drew upon classic masterpieces in this genre such as "Three Days of the Condor" and "The Prisoner" to create some of the episodes. But much is original. The 25 episodes on 9 discs revolve around the main character - Thomas Veil, played by Jewish-American actor Bruce Greenwood. Thomas Veil has been missing for some time, along with his memory. But this fact is not revealed until the last episode subtitled "Gemini Man".
In the first episode, the audience follows Thomas to a restaurant for dinner with his wife. When he returns from the restroom, another couple is sitting at his table and his wife is gone. His credit cards and keys don't work. His friend is murdered. No one recognizes him, including his wife. He ends up in a mental institution and spies his wife chatting with the shrink - Dr. Bellamy, which means she is in on whatever is happening. Somehow everything is connected to a photograph he took called "Hidden Agenda", which shows the hangings of Central American captives by what appears to be U.S. soldiers. And that is the genius of Hertzog - nothing is as it seems (except, perhaps, for Veil's wife).
My favorite episodes were the 7th - "A Rough Whimper of Insanity",the 22nd - "Calaway", and the astounding conclusion - "Gemini Man". Working as a pizza delivery man in the 7th episode, Veil encounters a computer genius recluse living off his patent royalties. The audience is introduced to the world of virtual reality, where the genius discovers a file on Veil and informs him - "it's not what you think". Before he can say more, he vanishes within a crumbling virtual reality room while Veil barely manages to escape. In the 22nd, Veil comes down with extreme insomnia and returns to the mental institution where he was first placed after he was erased. There he encounters a shrink who used to be an inmate, but the shrink has no recollection of his past life. This causes the viewer to ponder whether the same thing happened to Veil or not? The concluding episode "Gemini Man" unravels all. The mysteries and conspiracies are laid bare. The disinformation spun to keep Veil and the audience from the truth has been so effective in the previous 24 episodes that nothing is predictable. It's a great finish to a great series.
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Ten years ago, when this aired once and only once on UPN, I got hooked. Several times over the years I searched the internet to see if the series had been release on DVD yet and was pleasantly surprised to see that it had.
Nowhere Man is an engrossing story of Thomas Veil, a man whose identity has been stripped from him for reasons that can only be assumed are related to a photograph that he has taken. The series is a some what disjointed tale of Veil attempting to gain his identity and the life he once had back from those who took it.
The best way that I can describe this series is this... Take the paranoia factor of X-Files and ramp it up by about 10,000 fold. This series thrives on the sense of paranoia. Then, take the involved nature of shows like Lost, where one most sort of keep a keen eye out for clues and recurring themes, and ramp that up a bit. The series contains bits through out it that reference, if I recall correctly since I haven't watched them ALL again, other episodes.
All in all, it is an extreme involved show that serves to engross the audience. Five stars all around and a masterpiece of television drama that was far too edgy, intelligent and involved to make it in a world of shows like American Idol...
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This was a series I had watched many years ago, and absolutely loved. It had an interesting story and a main character you could really care about. A few episodes were a little weird and just didn't seem to fit with the series, however as a whole this is one of the great cancelled shows that never had a chance to shine. The show was cancelled during UPN's restructuring in the early 90's and only ever got to air one season. I had been looking for a chance to obtain this series on VHS for years and finally gave up, I thrilled to see they finally released it.
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Thank goodness! I am SO GLAD that this series is finally on DVD! I loved this show when it was on and I couldn't wait for the next episode every week! A very well written, well acted cerebral show! I was extremely disappointed that this show was cancelled and I have not been able to get a fix...until now. And as a photographer myself, the whole concept of a photograph carrying so much impact...well it definitely gives me reason to pause and think...
If you enjoy thoughtful, well done shows...this is the one! Don't hesitate...get your copy now.
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Up there with "The Twilight Zone", episodes of "Nowhere Man" are bound to
stick in the thinking viewer's mind. This beats all the angsty "who am I?" type series of the 90's without a problem. Unfortunately, there aren't enough episodes to rival what studio big wigs at Fox gave more money to, like "The X-Files".
This was on TV when I was pretty young and I recorded every episode I could, riveted by the horrific plight of Thomas Veil (Bruce Greenwood); a photographer and journalist, it seems that he has somehow accidentally wronged someone in a very powerful place with his research. A photographic negative of three people being hung in what looks like a military execution appear in video after video. His wife spurns him, none of his friends or neighbors remember him at all, and he can no longer find any record of his birth or his existence at all. I haven't seen an episode on TV before or since the original broadcast and have never forgotten it.
The world Veil lives in is necessarily bleak, and this was UPN's best
series, hands down. The last episode was ridiculously premature, although
I was happy that his ending was not happy, somehow--the point seemed to be that despite Veil's best efforts to again regain his life and discover
precisely what has gone so horribly awry, whoever is in power simply
will not let it occur. George Orwell would have loved this show.
I wasn't aware that NM had ever been released as a box set except as a bootleg, and I'm happy to see Amazon is offering it now.
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