"Drive" (2007) TV series

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Creators:

Tim Minear
Ben Queen

Seasons:

1

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A drama about various people competing in an illegal cross-country road race.

Plot Keywords:

Illegal Game | Cancellation | Hispanic | Racing Game | Clue

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination

Cast

Kristin Lehman	...	Corinna Wiles (7 episodes, 2007)
Emma Stone	...	Violet Trimble / ... (7 episodes, 2007)
Rochelle Aytes	...	Leigh Barnthouse / ... (7 episodes, 2007)
Taryn Manning	...	Ivy Chitty / ... (7 episodes, 2007)
Melanie Lynskey	...	Wendy Patrakas (7 episodes, 2007)
Nathan Fillion	...	Alex Tully (6 episodes, 2007)
Mircea Monroe	...	Ellie Laird (6 episodes, 2007)
Riley Smith	...	Rob Laird (6 episodes, 2007)
Kevin Alejandro	...	Winston Salazar (6 episodes, 2007)
J.D. Pardo	...	Sean Salazar (6 episodes, 2007)
Dylan Baker	...	John Trimble (6 episodes, 2007)
Brian Bloom	...	Allan James / ... (5 episodes, 2007)
Charles Martin Smith	...	Mr. Bright (4 episodes, 2007)
Cindy Williams	...	House Mother (3 episodes, 2007)
Richard Brooks	...	Detective Ehrle (3 episodes, 2007)
Michael Hyatt	...	Susan Chamblee (3 episodes, 2007)
Amy Acker	...	Kathryn Tully (3 episodes, 2007)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Fontana, California, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Dylan Baker was in every episode of the series. He was credited as a guest star for 5 of those. In the episode that became the series finale he was added to the opening credits, but this episode mostly went unseen, except online.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: The interstate highway scenes occur in an apparent desert. As of Episode 1.3, the race teams had only made it from Key West, Florida, to North Georgia. Neither state has a desert.

Soundtrack:

Can't Stop the World

A great concept carried out in the worst way I have ever seen on TV

I was looking forward to this show when it first aired. I loved the illegal cross country race aspect with a bunch of people all having different reasons for being in the race. The premise had me salivating for an interesting show.

Then I saw the pilot. The effects were minimal, the car chases were contrived and idiotic, the characters were some of the most stupid and obnoxioius people I have ever seen on TV, and their motives were poorly written and executed with no passion whatsoever.

Its obvious that too many people had ideas of how this show should be and in the end it was all watered down so that no one element had any interesting creativity left.

What a shame.