In Fox's "Wayward Pines," a Secret Service agent played by Matt Dillon finds himself trapped in a remote Idaho town from which he's not allowed to leave. No one will tell him why he can't go, nor why any of the other weird things happen in a place where the residents are paranoid, bloodthirsty, and under constant surveillance. TV has a long and illustrious history of weird mystery locale shows like this, from "The Prisoner" to "Lost." But for a show like this to work, at least one of two things must be true(*): 1)The characters and/or story have to be compelling even before the mysteries get answered, or 2)The mystery explanation has to be so damn clever that it retroactively makes everything that came before better. (*) Your mileage will vary, as seen among the "Lost" fans whose enjoyment of the whole series was soured by how it explained its mysteries.
- 5/13/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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