Review of The Dead Zone

Before the series Eureka which was a game changer for sci fi content out of Canada (a hit all over the world) there was this show, produced on a shoestring ... and actually pretty darn good. One of the only moderately successful spinoffs of a major King novel in history (which is saying A LOT since most movies based on King tend to be junk) Hall basically picked this show up each week and single-handedly carried it home based on talent and force of will. Other reviewers have covered the basics. Suffice it to say that in a normal universe where talent alone is determinative, Hall would have gone on to bigger and better things. But he did not, and more's the pity. Nicole de Boer was a strange bit of casting. In the limited universe of the Canadian talent pool at the time, she was the equivalent of an Angelia Jolie. But as I said off the top, this show was defined by the production and casting capabilities of the Canadian talent pool AT THE TIME and suffered therefrom.