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| The following review from TV Guide's Matt Roush is not exactly glowing, but certainly favorable: Quote: Geeks and Freaks
Eureka: The playground of mad scientists
The tucked-away town of Eureka may not be on a map, but you can't miss it. Just turn left at the second wormhole.
What's strange is commonplace in Eureka (Tuesdays at 9 pm/ET on Sci Fi, premiering July 18), a divertingly original but awfully precious comic fantasy that brings science fiction back to Earth. The setting: a quirky Northern Exposure-like burg in the Pacific Northwest where every basement seems to be hatching a mind-blowing (and potentially cosmos-shaking) experiment, courtesy of a local population of obsessed geniuses.
Many of the classified secrets behind the town's origins are revealed in this week's two-hour pilot, in which U.S. Marshal Jack Carter (gangly, goofily charming Colin Ferguson) stumbles into Eureka just as a secret project goes awry and begins peppering the community with quantum anomalies, leaving properties ruined and cows sliced in two.
"Doesn't anyone do anything halfway around here?" Carter wonders as he surveys the landscape of brilliant eccentrics, including a mechanic (Joe Morton) who used to be a space- shuttle engineer and a seductive innkeeper (Debrah Farentino) who doubles as a shrink with a top-secret clientele.
Part of the fun of Eureka comes in watching Carter settle in to a place where the fantastic is taken for granted, where Matt Frewer (Max Headroom!) is a militaristic dog-catcher, and the diner has a literally limitless menu. So far, the show is more likable than memorable, but there are worse places to spend a midsummer's night.
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