The River
Found footage. That’s what we are said to be watching at the beginning of The River, a new eight episode series on ABC. Who found the footage and how they found it is a mystery, but then again just about everything on The River is a mystery at this point. Here is the premise: Dr. Emmet Cole is the host of a popular and long running wildlife show called The Undiscovered Country. The show also features his wife, Tess and their son Lincoln as they travel the globe on their ship, The Magus. Emmet ends each episode with the same tagline of “there’s magic out there”. But six months ago Emmet disappeared in the Amazon. His ship and crew were never found and he was declared dead. Then suddenly his emergency beacon goes off and the search for him begins. We got little more than that in the first 15 minutes of the show when the crew was hastily put together and we learned that Emmet had been estranged from his son, who was al...