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Duster Spins Its Wheels
If a series ever needed a binge drop, it’s this one. And if a series ever needed an overarching conspiracy less, it’s also this one.
Instead, Jim’s a ladies’ man fairly unbothered by his time serving in the Vietnam War, and he’s also craving more responsibility from Ezra, and he’s also trying to forge a relationship with his young daughter, and he’s also butting heads with his father’s new wife, and he’s also mourning Joey, also also also. Despite Morgan’s co-creator status and her four episodic writing credits, what Duster primarily reveals itself to be is an attempt at recapturing the magic of Abrams’s early days in television: the women-kicking-ass flavor of Alias, the puzzle-piece intricacy of Lost, the coming-of-age charm of Felicity. By the time a certain infamous American eccentric shows up as a family friend of Jim’s and the final scene teases another villain down the line, you’ll wonder why this series was so intent on setting up a possible renewal that it skimped on establishing itself on its own terms.
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