Don't you just hate it when you get hooked on a show and it's yanked unceremoniously off the air, leaving you hanging into infinity? Yeah, me, too. Such was the case with Surface, an alien-sea-monster-inspired drama that aired on NBC during the 2005-2006 season.The series starred the soulful Lake Bell as Laura Daughtery, a marine biologist who encounters a strange creature on the ocean floor. She writes up her report, only to have it confiscated by the government in the name of national security.
Meanwhile, nerdy teen Miles (Carter Jenkins, whom I predict has a huge career ahead of him, though not if he keeps signing on for shows like the short-lived Viva Laughlin) stumbles across a strange egg on the beach and takes it home. Imagine his surprise when out hatches a weird amphibious creature that emits an even weirder electrical current.
As fans wait til later this month for word on whether or
not there will be a second season of Surface (it doesn't look good) comes news that the first season will be
You know how sometimes they'll advertise an episode of a TV show as the
"episode you must see" or "the episode that changes everything?" Usually it's just hype or wishful
thinking. They didn't advertise episode 14 of Surface as an episode that changes everything or a must
see. But they could have. Because, well, this is the episode that changes everything.
So 
One of the things that I like about Surface (one of many things) is that I really don't know
where it's going with its story. I had assumptions I made about where these creatures came from, and they turned out to
be wrong. I made an assumption on how the story was going to play out between Laura, Rich, and Miles, and I was
wrong on that too. So I'm not going to try to predict what's going to happen anymore. I'm just going to sit back
and enjoy the remaining episodes for this season.
Who would have thought that, just when Laura and Rich are so close to convincing the world that mysterious sea
creatures do indeed exist in the oceans around the world, the person who could potentially screw up that disclosure and
put their lives in danger would be...Keith Olbermann?!?
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