Heartland is a show with a heart! Heartland premieres on TNT tonight at 10p and I can tell you after watching the first two episodes this show is amazing! David Hollander who also created The Guardian has another great show on his hands with Heartland. I will be honest this show had me at Treat Williams, I have been a fan of his work since Hair and part of the reason I was so upset that Everwood was canceled because it meant I would no longer be able to watch him every week. In fact another reviewer said it best that Treat’s character Dr Nathaniel Grant is like Dr Andy Brown before he moved to Everwood, which in ways so so true. I also realized that it wasn’t Greg Berlanti who made Everwood so great, it was Treat Williams. Seriously there is something so calming about him, that everyone will want to have him as their doctor.
Now back to the show, Heartland is about how Dr Nathaniel Grant and the people he works with deal with their daily lives in a hospital’s transplant unit. Although other shows have done the transplant storyline, none have been based solely on just that and I can’t believe it took them so long to do so. But then again good things come to those who wait and the timing was just right because this show handles it just right. Kari Matchett (Invasion) plays Dr Grant’s ex-wife who works as a donor-coordinator at the hospital. She is also raising their daughter who is going through her rebellious teenage years. Grant who will get a promotion in the pilot still talks the person he replaces (Dabney Coleman) and their conversations really help with the show’s dynamic. Another part of the show I like is that is that Grant sees the people whose organs have been transplanted in the people they were transplanted to. Unlike Raines it is just the right amount of a glance that it is touching without being overdone. The only complaint I have about the show is I wish they would spend a little more time on the people getting the transplants, but other than that I have a new show to watch every week and so will you! So tune in to Heartland tonight at 10p on TNT and enjoy what will be the sleeper hit of the summer!
BTW The Closer is also premiering tonight on TNT at 9p. I have never seen the show, but my friend who hated TV loves this show!!!
