Concept: A secret service agent suddenly awakens in a picturesque, old-fashioned “Main-Street”-style town, with no idea how he got there, no one willing to tell him and no way out.
 

• A science-fiction mystery thriller that Rod Serling would have loved. Like many of the best episodes of the Twilight Zone TV series, it takes the nostalgic ideal of quaint, small town America and turns it on its head.
• This is one of the very few programs that truly leaves you with no idea what to expect next, with solid actors (especially Matt Dillon, who plays the protagonist) and a cast that looks like real people and not like TV-series actors.
• It’s also surprisingly cinematic in its scope, themes and many action sequences. I binged through all ten episodes.
• This first season is absolutely complete from start to finish and has a great ending.
• They should never have added a second season, which is supposedly a lame retread of the first and something I’m totally not interested in. See the first season only.
• M. Night. Shyamalan, producer/director of “The Sixth Sense” and other movies, was one of the executive producers of this series and also directed the pilot episode. You can certainly see his influence in the cinematic quality of the series and the Twilight Zone aspect that it has. But his career as a filmmaker is spotty with more misses than hits, and you may see evidence of that in the failed second season.