Some Mondays you just have to mutter "It's you and me, couch," and curl up with the remote. I am staunchly against adhering to primetime television's ideas of when I should be home, consuming canned advertising without the option of hitting the fast forward button, but given the buzz around NBC's new show about modern people going primitive I thought I'd give it a shot last night.
A couple pre-showing notes:
My roommate remarked that Revolution's probably benefitting from the afterglow of the Hunger Games, what with the family-oriented hardass heroine battling for survival alongside a crossbow-wielding hottie who may or may not want her dead. I see what you did there, JJ Abrams.
On to the recap! I didn't take notes, so this is purely off the details encrusting my brain.
1. We get a few minutes of normalcy wherein the Matheson family (two tuned-out kids and a harried mom) blithely uses up all the electricity ever with their TVs, iPods, laptops, etc. Mr. M comes home and has just enough time to warn his wife that all this luxury shall pass before they're plunged into darkness and forced to eat lots of instantly melted ice cream. Oh, did I mention he manages to transfer a file into a flash drive and disguise it inside a medieval-looking necklace before that happens?*
2. Outside is chaos; planes fall from the sky, cars turn off. Mr. Matheson's brother Miles is on his way to some secret military base with his buddy* and has to walk.
3. Flash forward to 15 years later. Everyone's gone Amish, kinda, except they wear expertly fitted leather garments and still have guns. The Matheson girl, Charlie, is an expert hunter who misses her mother*, dislikes her dad's new squeeze and is pissed she doesn't get to travel due to roving criminals. The Matheson boy (Danny) has asthma*.
Charlie flounces off to the woods just in time to miss her father being threatened and shot by an asshole agent of the government and her brother getting dragged off in his stead. Before her father dies, he hands the ornate necklace/mystery data to a pal of his who used to work for Google and tells him they need to go to Chicago to hook up with Miles and retrieve Asthma Boy. New Squeeze insists on tagging along.
4. They walk five minutes and pass Wrigley Field. Charlie meets Hottie With a Crossbow (Nate). The group sleeps in a defunct plane and gets attacked by roving criminals. Two of the baddies are killed by the old "oh, you think this is whiskey? it's actually poison and now blood is streaming out of all your orifices. psych!" trick, while the third is picked off by Crossbow Boy.
5. Charlie, Google Guy, Squeeze and Bicep McFlex find the hotel where Miles is staying. He's a drunk and not too keen on battling the government for some kid he's never met. When a bunch of soldiers storm his hiding place he changes his mind, though, 'cause when a complete stranger claims she's your niece and nearly gets you killed you should totally agree to cooperate with her. During the fight we find out Nate is a government agent (boo), but he saves Charlie yet again from a baddie (yay). Sweeeeet emooootionnnnnn. We also find out that Mr. Matheson might have known how to turn the power back on but didn't want the information to fall into the wrong hands.
6. Meanwhile, Asthma Boy escapes the clutches of Scary Government Agent, but succumbs to an attack of asthma (surprise!!!). He wakes up still in handcuffs, camped out in some nice lady's house. She decides not to shoot him, but clues Agent Man in to his whereabout when he comes sniffing after the tracks Danny left. Bummer. He gets dragged away yet again. Asshole Agent sends a dispatch to Commander-in-Chief Asshole (Munroe), who turns out to be Miles's buddy from the car. Dun dun dunnnn.
7. Once the coast is clear, Nice Lady goes upstairs, activates a silver device that looks oddly JUST like the silver medallion necklace thing Google Guy now has in his possession, and turns on a computer. She sends a message to someone ELSE with a computer and electricity letting them know all's quiet on the western front. Her chat buddy types back, "Now what?"
Good question! Want an episode 2 recap?**
*IMPORTANT PLOT POINT!!!!!1111
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