"Reality is a figment of your imagination."
OK… Go on.
"The neuro-chemical impulses fired when we're dreaming or fantasizing or hallucinating are indistinguishable from the ones banging around inside our skulls when we actually experience those events. So, if what we perceive is often wrong, how can we ever know what's real and what isn't?"
Pretty heavy stuff to open up the next big-hit procedural crime drama, but it's just one of the reasons why TNT's Perception is breathing some new life into a stagnant genre.
Say hello to Dr. Daniel Pierce (Eric McCormack), an eccentric neuroscience professor who also happens to be a paranoid-schizophrenic; think John Nash from A Beautiful Mind meets Dr. House. Former star student Kate Moretti (Rachael Leigh Cook), an FBI agent, recruits Pierce to help solve difficult cases. While he possesses a brilliant handle on human behavior and the inner workings of the mind, he also walks around with a head full of noise.
This article appears in Jul 5-11, 2012.
