Imagine it's 1999. You've just been to the cinema and you have to tell people about that new film with Bruce Willis and the cute kid who sees dead people, because seriously, that director is going to go far. Fox asks you to forget that it's not 1999 and preferably also that Avatar: The Last Airbender exists, because it wants you to put your hopes in M. Night Shyamalan once again. This time it's for a TV series set in the titular town of Wayward Pines, where Matt Dillon's Agent Ethan Burke arrives to investigate the disappearance of two federal agents. The series is already inviting comparisons to Twin Peaks, but it really hinges on Shyamalan; it's telling that even Fox's press release only credits him as the director of The Sixth Sense and Signs, both of which were released over ten years ago. His capability is not in doubt, and the cast (Melissa Leo, Terrence Howard, Juliette Lewis and Toby Jones join Dillon) is more than up to the challenge, so it's worth watching to see if finally Shyamalan can stop disappointing us.
