{"id":370,"date":"2006-06-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/06\/tnt-hopes-you-feel-like-gettin.html"},"modified":"2006-06-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T12:00:00","slug":"tnt-hopes-you-feel-like-gettin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/06\/tnt-hopes-you-feel-like-gettin.html","title":{"rendered":"TNT Hopes You Feel Like Getting &#8220;Saved&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>Mix <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/greysanatomy\/\" target=\"_new\">&#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221;<\/a> with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/tv.yahoo.com\/tvpdb?d=tvi&amp;cf=0&amp;id=1808585292\" target=\"_new\">Rescue Me&#8221;<\/a> and you get TNT&#8217;s lastest summer drama, <a href=\"http:\/\/alt.tnt.tv\/saved\/saved.shtml\" target=\"_new\">&#8220;Saved.&#8221;<\/a> There is the requisite flawed hero who can only save others but can never save himself. There are also the obligatory dysfunctional family relationships and the usual romance with a co-worker.  But in spite of the familiar terrority, &#8220;Saved&#8221; is still an entertaining look at one man&#8217;s rocky road to redemption.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Saved&#8221;, the man with the savior complex is Wyatt Cole (Tom Everett Scott), a roguish paramedic who returns to Portland after dropping out of medical school to bum around Hawaii for a couple of years. Not the worst mistake you could make, except in Wyatt&#8217;s case, because his dad is a doctor, the girl he was &#8211;and still is&#8211; in love with is a doctor, and they both think he is a big, fat failure for not becoming one as well. Too bad he has to run into them all the time when he delivers patients to the hospital they both work at.<\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s pilot episode was certainly filled with numerous of examples of Wyatt as savior and of Wyatt as the one in need of salvation. Even though Wyatt helped a woman give birth and dashed into a burning building to save a family, he still found time to get beaten to a pulp by his loan shark. (Did I forget to mention that Wyatt has a gambling addiction?) And that was just the first half of the show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saved&#8221; is  neither as gritty as &#8220;Rescue Me,&#8221; nor as funny or quirky as &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy,&#8221; but Everett Scott is charming and endearing as Wyatt, and the show makes a smart bookend to that other great TNT drama, <a href=\"http:\/\/alt.tnt.tv\/closer\" target=\"_new\">&#8220;The Closer,&#8221;<\/a> which airs right before it. So if your T.V. schedule filled with re-runs is in need of a little salvation, it&#8217;s worth your time to check this show out.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mix &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221; with &#8220;Rescue Me&#8221; and you get TNT&#8217;s lastest summer drama, &#8220;Saved.&#8221; There is the requisite flawed hero who can only save others but can never save himself. There are also the obligatory dysfunctional family relationships and the usual romance with a co-worker. 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