Journey Planet 58 - Cancelled Too Soon

Forever debuted on September 22, 2014 and it ended on May 5, 2015 after one season and 22 episodes. Starring Ioan Gruffudd as Henry Morgan, Judd Hirsch as Abe, Alana De La Garza as Jo Martinez, Joel David Moore as Lucas Wahl, and Donnie Keshawarz as Mike Hanson. Forever was about a New York medical examiner who uses his knowledge to solve crimes while also trying to figure out how to end his mortality. The series originally aired on ABC in the U.S., CTV in Canada, and Sky1 in the UK and Ireland. It is currently available on DVD manufacture on demand and streaming on CW Seed, Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Vudu, and Google Play.

Forever was a show so square it gave you an A in geometry. It was so corny my husband’s great-great-grand-parents would’ve called it maize. It was trite, serious, and would have made a brilliant cross-over with Murder She Wrote. And even though it was listed as a “fantasy crime drama,” I loved it.

I loved it because of Ioan Gruffudd, because of beautiful antiques, because of a bone-deep entanglement with the past, because of mordant flashes of humor, Jane Seymour, BDSM, and clues in Latin. Other people loved it too: viewers in France, Germany, and Spain made the show a success in Europe.

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