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In "Perception", Eric McCormack plays Dr. Daniel Pierce, an eccentric neuroscience professor with paranoid schizophrenia who is recruited by the FBI to help solve complex cases. Pierce has an intimate knowledge of human behavior and a masterful understanding of the way the mind works. He also has an uncanny ability to see patterns and look past people's conscious emotions to see what lies beneath. Pierce's mind may be brilliant, but it's also damaged. He struggles with hallucinations and paranoid delusions brought on by his schizophrenia. Oddly, Daniel considers some of his hallucinations to be a gift. They occasionally allow him to make connections that his conscious mind can’t yet process. At other times, the hallucinations become Daniel's greatest curse, leading him to behave in irrational, potentially dangerous ways.Dr. Geoffrey Pierce (Eric McCormack), a Chicago neuroscience professor with paranoid schizophrenia teams up with his former student, FBI agent Kate Moretti (Rachael Lee Cook) to help solve some major cases together.
When Andy Breckman nudged his OCD-plagued detective onto the screen in 2002, no one could have predicted the long-term, still-resonating effect Tony Shalhoub's Mr. Monk would have on an unsuspecting nation. Running for eight years, "Monk" not only made Shalhoub a permanent fixture on the Emmy roll call (nominated eight times, won three) but the quirky detective procedural also helped USA, once best known for game show reruns and "Silk Stalkings," become one of the most consistently entertaining and certainly best branded of the basic cable channels.
More important, it made damaged the new smart. From addiction ("House,""Nurse Jackie,""Breaking Bad") to Asperger's ("Big Bang Theory,""Alphas,"possibly"Sherlock"), from the socially stunted savant ("Numb3rs,""Bones") and broken-hearted and/or brain-damaged genius ("The Mentalist,""Fringe") to the unadulterated psychopath ("Dexter"), if you don't have a dysfunction, and possibly a diagnosis, you probably don't have a television show.
PHOTOS: The 'Will & Grace' Effect
So there is something simply inevitable about the Monday debut of TNT's "Perception," in which the hero is — yes, I know, but he is — a paranoid schizophrenic. As played by Eric McCormack, Dr. Daniel Pierce is so deeply ill that he experiences regular full-blown hallucinations. (Three words and a long-range spoiler alert: Joan of Arc.) Yet he is also med-free and so high functioning that he manages to not only teach neuroscience at a highfalutin' university but also solve cases for the FBI.
Though not quite up to radiating the chronic pain of Hugh Laurie's House or the emotional blankness of Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock, McCormack's angularity of face and body does project a twitchy kind of melancholy. He is also given the regulation bag o' tics to work with — music calms Dr. Pierce, but he listens to it only on cassette tapes; food must be presented geometrically; he solves crossword puzzles the way others make grocery lists; and he refuses to carry a cellphone (a trait shared by so many eccentric detectives, including most recently "Longmire's," that perhaps it should be retired.)
The dean (LeVar Burton) of this Harvard-like university allows a paranoid schizophrenic to move among the student body because, of course, Pierce is brilliant and because his long-suffering teaching assistant, Max Lewicki (Arjay Smith), is there to keep him on schedule and presumably out of trouble.
Ah, but trouble walks across the campus on Day 1, in the form of feisty FBI agent and former student Kate Moretti (Rachael Leigh Cook), who knows all about Pierce's "condition" but loves him anyway.
"Perception" has a great cast and good writing. At it's center is Daniel Pierce, a brilliant, quirky but well liked neuroscience professor who is recruited by Kate Moretti (Rachael Leigh Cook) a former student turned FBI agent to help out on cases. Eric McCormack, of Will and Grace fame, takes on his first drama series, in a role perfect for his comedic chops.
The show is very light-hearted, but still packs a dramatic punch. The plot lines in the first two episodes were engrossing and the dynamic between Daniel and the other characters is shown off very well. What drew me to the series on the outset was its cast. I am big fans of both McCormack and Cook, who have a good dynamic together.
The show took a bit of thinking, when it reveals something about it's main character in the pilot, I didn't get it at first, but by the second episode I was used to it. "Perception" reminded me a bit of "Criminal Minds", but with an psychological twist.
In "Perception", Eric McCormack plays Dr. Daniel Pierce, an eccentric neuroscience professor with paranoid schizophrenia who is recruited by the FBI to help solve complex cases. Pierce has an intimate knowledge of human behavior and a masterful understanding of the way the mind works. He also has an uncanny ability to see patterns and look past people's conscious emotions to see what lies beneath. Pierce's mind may be brilliant, but it's also damaged. He struggles with hallucinations and paranoid delusions brought on by his schizophrenia. Oddly, Daniel considers some of his hallucinations to be a gift. They occasionally allow him to make connections that his conscious mind can’t yet process. At other times, the hallucinations become Daniel's greatest curse, leading him to behave in irrational, potentially dangerous ways.Dr. Geoffrey Pierce (Eric McCormack), a Chicago neuroscience professor with paranoid schizophrenia teams up with his former student, FBI agent Kate Moretti (Rachael Lee Cook) to help solve some major cases together.
When Andy Breckman nudged his OCD-plagued detective onto the screen in 2002, no one could have predicted the long-term, still-resonating effect Tony Shalhoub's Mr. Monk would have on an unsuspecting nation. Running for eight years, "Monk" not only made Shalhoub a permanent fixture on the Emmy roll call (nominated eight times, won three) but the quirky detective procedural also helped USA, once best known for game show reruns and "Silk Stalkings," become one of the most consistently entertaining and certainly best branded of the basic cable channels.
More important, it made damaged the new smart. From addiction ("House,""Nurse Jackie,""Breaking Bad") to Asperger's ("Big Bang Theory,""Alphas,"possibly"Sherlock"), from the socially stunted savant ("Numb3rs,""Bones") and broken-hearted and/or brain-damaged genius ("The Mentalist,""Fringe") to the unadulterated psychopath ("Dexter"), if you don't have a dysfunction, and possibly a diagnosis, you probably don't have a television show.
PHOTOS: The 'Will & Grace' Effect
So there is something simply inevitable about the Monday debut of TNT's "Perception," in which the hero is — yes, I know, but he is — a paranoid schizophrenic. As played by Eric McCormack, Dr. Daniel Pierce is so deeply ill that he experiences regular full-blown hallucinations. (Three words and a long-range spoiler alert: Joan of Arc.) Yet he is also med-free and so high functioning that he manages to not only teach neuroscience at a highfalutin' university but also solve cases for the FBI.
Though not quite up to radiating the chronic pain of Hugh Laurie's House or the emotional blankness of Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock, McCormack's angularity of face and body does project a twitchy kind of melancholy. He is also given the regulation bag o' tics to work with — music calms Dr. Pierce, but he listens to it only on cassette tapes; food must be presented geometrically; he solves crossword puzzles the way others make grocery lists; and he refuses to carry a cellphone (a trait shared by so many eccentric detectives, including most recently "Longmire's," that perhaps it should be retired.)
The dean (LeVar Burton) of this Harvard-like university allows a paranoid schizophrenic to move among the student body because, of course, Pierce is brilliant and because his long-suffering teaching assistant, Max Lewicki (Arjay Smith), is there to keep him on schedule and presumably out of trouble.
Ah, but trouble walks across the campus on Day 1, in the form of feisty FBI agent and former student Kate Moretti (Rachael Leigh Cook), who knows all about Pierce's "condition" but loves him anyway.
"Perception" has a great cast and good writing. At it's center is Daniel Pierce, a brilliant, quirky but well liked neuroscience professor who is recruited by Kate Moretti (Rachael Leigh Cook) a former student turned FBI agent to help out on cases. Eric McCormack, of Will and Grace fame, takes on his first drama series, in a role perfect for his comedic chops.
The show is very light-hearted, but still packs a dramatic punch. The plot lines in the first two episodes were engrossing and the dynamic between Daniel and the other characters is shown off very well. What drew me to the series on the outset was its cast. I am big fans of both McCormack and Cook, who have a good dynamic together.
The show took a bit of thinking, when it reveals something about it's main character in the pilot, I didn't get it at first, but by the second episode I was used to it. "Perception" reminded me a bit of "Criminal Minds", but with an psychological twist.