“Family Man” brought up mixed emotions for me. I was happy to see Colin Ferguson in something a little out of the ordinary, but the plot of the show reminded me of something I’ve already seen: Face/Off. Sure, there are some obvious differences between the two, but when you get down to the basics, you have a criminal and good guy changing bodies for the most part.
Colin Ferguson and Clifton Collins, Jr.
Here, Ferguson, played the all-around good American husband and father, while Clifton Collins, Jr. was the serial killer, murdering dozens of men, women, and children. They’ve very different people and with the good guy in prison, the “Family Man,” as dubbed by the media, is out, free.
You knew how the show would go from the beginning. There wasn’t anything deeply moving or troubling in the episode; it pretty much went by the book, so to speak. You felt for Ferguson’s character and hoped he’d be reunited with his family like in Face/Off, but the plot twist at the end put any hope of that at rest.
The last-scene plot twists have been present in each of the first three episodes. These little twists can be great (like the pilot), but you really sensed how this one would play out. So, again, there wasn’t anything particularly great here, but it’s a decent hour of television.
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