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THE CROSSING
April 2, 2018  | By David Bianculli

ABC, 10:00 p.m. ET

 
SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. This new series starts with a visual stunner: bodies, many dozens of them, found floating by the seashore – some dead, but others alive. And as the mysterious premise of this show quickly reveals, the waterborne refugees actually are from the distant future, emerging from the sea to escape some sort of genocide yet to come. Viewers have to buy into the idea instantly, then stick around for the long run – but after seeing the pilot, starring Steve Zahn as a small-town sheriff investigating the visitors and their origins, I’d lost interest. ABC’s promo department, by contrast, is trying to sell The Crossing as a new, complex, time-warping mystery series “from the network that brought you Lost.” That’s a shameful bit of salesmanship, to push a link via the network rather than a writer or producer. ABC, remember, is also the network that brought us Mr. T and Tina. For full reviews, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower and Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes
 
 
 
 
 
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