ABC is pleased with the numbers from its new live-action The Incrediblesesque romp titled “No Ordinary Family” by announcing it has given the show a full 22 episode pickup.
The show centers around a family of ordinary people who develop extraordinary powers after a near fatal plane crash in the Amazon rainforest.
The shows stars “The Shield” alum Michael Chiklis as the dad who has gained the ability to leap tall buildings with a single bound, stop bullets, ….well you get the picture. His wife (Julie Benz) runs incredibly fast (faster than a speeding bullet – if you will), the teenage daughter (Kay Panabaker) can read other people’s thoughts and the son (Jimmy Bennett – who starred as the car stealing young James T. Kirk in JJ Abrams’ “Star Trek”), a freshman in high school, who before the the crash was barely a D student, has brain abilities that make Einstein look like the village idiot.
The show has its requisite side-kicks in stars Autumn Reeser and Romany Malco with the villain being provided by another Star Trek movie alum Stephen Collins (“7th Heaven”).
“No Ordinary Family” airs Tuesdays at 8 pm ET/PT.
I’m glad. It’s a fun show with a great dynamic. I really don’t understand why Mike and co. have got their ire up so much.
I was watching the Oct 19th episode a couple nights ago and just stopped about halfway through. It occurred to me that I have no interest in this show. I don’t care about the characters, there is no forward movement of the story and I can’t even see where it’s trying to go.
They introduced the bad guys at the end of the first episode which had me interested but almost nothing has happened with that since and it was the only thing I found remotely interesting.
I haven’t deleted it off the DVR yet but I probably will.
Happy to hear it, it’s a fun show.
Not looking forward to Mike bitching about it though….
“I don’t care about the characters, there is no forward movement of the story …”
Not to go off-topic, but that’s exactly how I felt during the first season of BSG.
But I don’t feel that way about “No Ordinary Family”. It’s a fun show and I like the characters. I’m glad it got a full season.