This is an example of a series with a reasonably clever premise. This family winds up thrown into another world where they're chased by a zealous police officer and must find a way home. Pretty standard stuff when you get down to it but there's a twist, no two episodes are quite the same.
You see when they arrive in this "Otherworld" they're stopped by a police officer of sorts. They manage to overpower him, steal his car and control crystal and make their way to the closest town. It looks like normal America with people, stores, homes and the like but there's something off about it. The stores just sell cans of food with generic labels on them. The mother gets sick. And it's revealed everybody is an android due to the high levels of radiation there. And this sets the stage for every new city or area they visit. Different cultural norms exist. In one women are the dominant sex. In another everybody is a Mad Max kind of biker. In a third it's like the 1950's and everybody is repressed and boring.
That right there makes it interesting. In doing this they're able to explore certain things and it's not always the same story. But the writing on these things was inconsistent. Or there's just big old holes of logic that make no sense. Like in the 1950's world the two kids bring rock & roll with them as they perform this at the high school talent show. A world without rock & roll still has modern drum kits and electric guitars? How does that even work?
While this could have been given a little time to find it's footing the ratings were never that good and it was cancelled after, I think, only a dozen episodes. You can find them on Youtube if you really want.
You see when they arrive in this "Otherworld" they're stopped by a police officer of sorts. They manage to overpower him, steal his car and control crystal and make their way to the closest town. It looks like normal America with people, stores, homes and the like but there's something off about it. The stores just sell cans of food with generic labels on them. The mother gets sick. And it's revealed everybody is an android due to the high levels of radiation there. And this sets the stage for every new city or area they visit. Different cultural norms exist. In one women are the dominant sex. In another everybody is a Mad Max kind of biker. In a third it's like the 1950's and everybody is repressed and boring.
That right there makes it interesting. In doing this they're able to explore certain things and it's not always the same story. But the writing on these things was inconsistent. Or there's just big old holes of logic that make no sense. Like in the 1950's world the two kids bring rock & roll with them as they perform this at the high school talent show. A world without rock & roll still has modern drum kits and electric guitars? How does that even work?
While this could have been given a little time to find it's footing the ratings were never that good and it was cancelled after, I think, only a dozen episodes. You can find them on Youtube if you really want.