Comments on: TV reviews: ‘Six Degrees,’ ‘Runaway,’ ‘The Game’

By: FHL

FHL — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:51:09 +0000

What is it about Alaska? I had a friend from Alaska and her dad was a total liberal whacko. (I wouldn’t be surprised if he was on the run from the IRS.) It must be the oppressive cold or remoteness. Or maybe it’s the Eskimos.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:47:02 +0000

Binky, I’m guessing that David’s family was in trouble with some minor bureaucratic office that had no budget for trying to locate them. Maybe they were trying to get out of repaying a farm loan.
Surely if it was something major, the FBI would be competent enough to track down David’s family under the less-than-a-deep-dark-secret circumstances you describe. Wouldn’t they? I hope?

By: Binky

Binky — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:02:17 +0000

As to the premise of “Runaway”: I was friends with a boy in my kindergarten class named “David” and he and his family were honest-to-goodness hiding out from the feds.

I don’t know how good they were at it, as everyone in the kindergarten class–even the whole town–knew this. They moved to Alaska about 6 months later.

And if you’re on the run from the feds, shouldn’t you not tell everyone where you’re moving to? Unless you’re being cunning and telling a lie. But they weren’t. I wrote to David in Alaska and he wrote back.

By: jason

jason — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:56:25 +0000

The premise of “Runaway” sounds very much like the River Phoenix film “Running on Empty.” Worked nicely as a two-hour feature, but I don’t see long-term sustainability for a weekly series…