Santa Monica-based production company Sheer Bravado Productions has pulled together one intriguing show. The trailer for The Gumshoe calls out to supporters of a simpler time a commentary on the fast-paced direction of the future after my own heart. The web-based TV series stars Nick McGraw a hard-nose private eye who is amidst investigating the case of his career.
He strolls into his office building’s elevator one stormy night in 1947 only to receive the shock of his life. His nightly routine is jostled as the elevator is struck by lightning. The jolted PI emerges from the lift unscathed yet is greeted by a frantic and unfamiliar world.
Unbeknownst to the Gumshoe he has stepped into the foreign year of 2011 thanks to “some half-baked quantum physics experiment about time travel as he later puts it, cooked up by the military. The government meddling was secretly taking place on the top floor of McGraw’s building, as they tinkered away at the US military’s 1943 Philadelphia Experiment.
They had transformed an elevator into a vessel for inter-dimensional time travel the PI reveals. McGraw is shocked, instantly recognizing the Old Hollywood glamour of his hometown, Los Angeles, has been replaced by a whizzing future.
Written by award-winning screenwriters Sean King and Ray Starmann, the plot holds thought-provoking potential. It asks the generation of the 4G network to recognize the obscurity of an impatient world to those growing up alongside the WWII-induced 35 mph speed limit.
As it stands, the concept still exists as a pilot. Sheer Bravado Productions is churning away to raise the $9000 still needed to produce the pilot for the Web TV series, accepting donations graciously. From there, 12-15 episodes will compile Season One, with aims to gain corporate branding and reach the cable or network audience.
How will The Gumshoe balance the comparison of a generation past with a generation on the fast-track? A call to slow down and smell the roses, the short attention span which defines our generation may just be captivated by this promising series.
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