{"id":19132,"date":"2015-05-12T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=19132"},"modified":"2015-07-20T13:17:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T20:17:29","slug":"trailers-fox-shows-trifecta-new-shows-minority-report-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/trailers-fox-shows-trifecta-new-shows-minority-report-included\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailers: Fox Shows a Trifecta of New Shows, Minority Report Included"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>With the traditional season of scripted TV coming to a close, those of the most traditional mindset are beginning to show off their newest slate of little screen adventures. Today it&#8217;s a new slate of Fox shows, each derived from something that came before, each due next season at some point or another.<\/p>\n<p>Be forewarned, these are lengthy, dense trailers that start with a premise and slip deeper and deeper into the spoiler-ridden folly. Let&#8217;s start with the one about the devil.<\/p>\n<h2>Lucifer<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X4bF_quwNtw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>Lucifer<\/em>, which began its life as a Vertigo comic written by the famed Neil Gaiman, falls the literal devil up to earth so he might get all humanized and stuff. Of course, he&#8217;s got a European accent, some perpetual five o&#8217;clock shadow and his own murder-mystery to solve, all while running a night club in San Francisco. He can&#8217;t be that bad, can he?<\/p>\n<p>Write\u00a0<em>Lucifer\u00a0<\/em>up as a\u00a0<em>Constantine\u00a0<\/em>replacement, seeing as that show&#8217;s been cancelled, filled out with its own visiting angels and spilling out of evil unto earth. Only this time the prick on the posters drives a fancier car.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here&#8217;s the one about the Frankenstein monster.<\/p>\n<h2>The Frankenstein Code<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qNq25SEUTPQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If you want to fancy up an old property, maybe try to convince some millenials it&#8217;s modern, throw the word &#8220;Code&#8221; in there somewhere.\u00a0<em>The Frankenstein Code\u00a0<\/em>brings an old cop back to life, only now he&#8217;s young and beautiful, just like Mary Shelley imagined him to be. Also, Timmy of the immortal\u00a0<em>Rules of Engagement\u00a0<\/em>triumphantly returns to television, though having resurrected a dude is decidedly more serious about stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in case you were worried the show might not have the kind of pace a classic tale might need in today&#8217;s age, there&#8217;s a murder-mystery to keep the iron pumping. Of all the Fox shows we know about, this is the one most definitely in need of a little extra.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s the one about the Tom Cruise-less future.<\/p>\n<h2>Minority Report<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_fLl-DMzxrk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Instead of simply re-imagining the film over what probably would have been a grueling 20-ish episode season,\u00a0<em>Minority Report<\/em> jumps past the narrative of the original movies\u00a0and creates it&#8217;s own tale about one of the three pre-cog children. After the whole pre-crime system shutters follow Tom Cruise&#8217;s dramatic self-blindness, the source of the system, three kids capable of seeing bits and pieces of the future, are set upon the world.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, of a doubtlessly dramatic nature, can&#8217;t take not using his gifts for good, so he hooks up with a future cop and prevents future crimes. You might consider it a weekly murder-mystery type deal, only the guns are non-lethal and the background music originated from the recycling bin of a drunk sound mixer&#8217;s computer.<\/p>\n<p>The lessons we can learn from Fox shows\u00a0this coming year? New ideas are crap. Old ideas are crap too, unless people get murdered. And then there&#8217;s mystery., which definitely means nothing else matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the traditional season of scripted TV coming to a close, those of the most traditional mindset are beginning to show off their newest slate of little screen adventures. Today it&#8217;s a new slate of Fox shows, each derived from something that came before, each due next season at some point or another. 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