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A Canadian drama from writer-producer Malcolm MacRury (“Earth: Final Conflict,” “Deadwood”) and Morwyn Brebner (“Rookie Blue”) about a comatose chief of surgery enduring a lengthy out-of-body experience that allows him to see (and speak to) dead people, “Saving Hope” 1.x stars Canadians Michael Shanks (“Stargate SG-1”) and Erica Durance (“Harry’s Law”), who played Hawkman and Lois on “Smallville.”

It’s not as bad as “Grey’s Anatomy” and not as good as “Chicago Hope” either. I dare say I enjoyed the first two episodes of “Saving Hope” more than most of the “ER” episodes NBC aired over the last five years. The most innovative thing about “Saving Hope” though, might be the omnipresent “Star Trek”-style lens flares its photography employs.

One reason to tune is a relative newcomer named Julia Taylor Ross ("Silent House"), who is hot as fire and is good enough to strip down to her bra in the second episode.

HitFix says:

... With Shanks off on the margins, Durance is the de facto series lead. She's pleasant, and no more or less believable as a doctor than half the docs on "Grey's," "House" or even "Scrubs," but Alex as a character isn't compelling.…

The New York Times says:

... the life of the hospital goes on in ways that weren’t that interesting the first 10 times we saw them: crash carts roll past in slow motion, doctors have sex in the break room, a woman refuses treatment for religious reasons. These medical scenes are competent but forgettable, while the scenes of Charlie’s peregrinations are sometimes interesting and funny but surprisingly infrequent. …

The Los Angeles Times says:

... not the worst show to debut during the summer months — there is a natural curiosity factor built in to the main plot line and both Shanks and Durance are certainly engaging performers. But as "Grey's Anatomy" proved several seasons ago when its lead wandered in death's oddly lit foyer, though there may indeed be more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy, a soapy medical drama is probably not the best venue in which to discuss them. …

The San Francisco Chronicle says:

... lukewarm stew of ideas from other shows ("Grey's Anatomy," "Touched by an Angel," the finally out of its misery "A Gifted Man") and films ("Ghost," "The Sixth Sense") with stock characters and situations that occasionally jerk a demi-tear or two, but with absolutely no authenticity. The sloppy sentimentality is cheap and unearned …

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:

... there’s not much in “Saving Hope” viewers haven’t seen before (and better) elsewhere …

The Boston Herald says:

... supremely dreary … One way or another, “Saving- Hope” will flatline.

Variety says:

... wins no points for originality, but boasts a winning lead in Erica Durance. …

Created by “Legend of the Seeker” vets Ken Biller (“Star Trek: Voyager,” "Smallville") and Mike Sussman ("Star Trek: Enterprise,” “Threshold"), TNT’s new hourlong “Perception” stars Eric McCormack (“Will & Grace”) as a paranoid schizophrenic neuroscience professor who, while off his meds, uses his hallucinations to help the FBI solve crimes.

His co-stars include Rachael Leigh Cook (“She's All That,” Psych"), Kelly Rowan (“The O.C.”), and LeVar Burton (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”).

HuffPost TV says:

... while it's no "Closer," which also returns Monday, the Eric McCormack vehicle "Perception" is perfectly adequate "Eccentric Consulting Genius" fare. …

The New York Times says:

... across the four early episodes provided for review, Pierce’s hallucinations are already beginning to feel like stunts covering up for a lack of ideas. … McCormack puts Pierce’s vulnerability and fear in the foreground, and avoids the huckster’s smirk that can sometimes mar his performances; he’s winning, and he has an easy rapport with Ms. Cook. For more critical viewers, though, that may not outweigh the show’s forced eccentricities, or the way in which ideas and motifs from “Monk,” “House,” “The Mentalist,” “Numbers” and other series clank around in plain sight.

The Los Angeles Times says:

... If you can overlook both the derivative nature of the set-up — "House" meets "A Beautiful Mind" and adopts "Monk" — and the dangerous absurdity of defining schizophrenia as just another way of looking at things, "Perception" has a certain summery, tweet-friendly entertainment value. … If only the strokes weren't so broad and easily anticipated, if only the paranoid schizophrenia weren't so actually horrible and devastating, rather than quirky and revelatory. Co-creators Mike Sussman and Kenneth Biller are on to something with their exploration of the endless and fascinating facets of perception. But too often it seems like they have chosen to afflict their character in this manner simply because all the other dysfunctions have already been taken.

The San Francisco Chronicle says:

… "Perception" isn't very smart. It's also not very pleasant. ... There's very little that's fun about "Perception." It doesn't have to be a laugh riot, but it should be enjoyable to watch and the sad truth is, it's just OK. …

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:

... a ho-hum affair. The show is not so much awful as it is a colorless copy of better shows that have come before. It doesn't take a keen sense of perception to see that. …

The Washington Post says:

... Pierce is one of those brilliant-yet-eccentric TV heroes, a neuroscience professor and FBI consultant who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, causing him to hallucinate and engage in lengthy conversations with imaginary people. While this adds a twist to what would otherwise be an average crime drama, it also means that the audience never knows whether a scene is actually happening. Essentially, the writers can take the plot in any direction they want without much regard for reality. For some viewers, this will be a neat trick. For others, it will be maddening. …

The Wall Street Journal says:

… There are aspects of the series that are engaging—Daniel's intricately conceived sleuthing for the FBI, for instance—but, as the voices in your own head soon tell you, there's a lot more of it that's wearisome. …

USA Today says:

... Perception's near-total divorce from reality, while annoying, is not the worst of its crimes. The larger problem is that Daniel's crime-solving abilities are so randomly applied as to be virtually pointless. …

Variety says:

... just more of the same-old, same-old, with a colorfully flawed (eccentric or crazy, take your pick) hero solving cases that prove almost wholly generic. It's no accident networks keep replicating this formula, but whether reality or mere perception, the result here is kind of a snooze. …

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