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Tonight at 9p on NBC’s Aquarius, David Duchovny is playing a cop unlike any other one on television today.
The year is 1967, America is going through a change. The structured lifestyles of the 40’s and 50’s are being replaced by one of free love. It is taking the older generation some time to come to grips with the changes, but they have no choice.
Sam Hodiak (David Duchovny) is a decorated World War II vet and homicide detective, and his life is about to change with a phone call. His ex-girlfriend, from before they were both married with kids, calls him because her 16 year old daughter, Emma (Emma Dumont), has gone missing. Because her current husband is about to run for office, they need to keep her disappearance a secret. He takes on the case, and as soon as he does he starts hitting road blocks because the kids don’t want to talk to the uptight pig.
Brian Shafe (Grey Damon) has been working undercover, so he speaks like the people Hodiak needs to talk to. Together the two of them work as a team to find out what happened to Emma. The find out that she has run away to be with a man named, Charles Manson (Gethin Anthony).
Since this is 1967, Manson is not yet the man we know. Who is he? That is what we are going to find out little by little each week.
As Manson becomes the manipulative criminal that he is known for today, Hodiak will continue to search for him.
Aquarius is a look back at 48 years ago and how different it was then as it is now. After all it was the dawning of the age of Aquarius and the world was in the midst of a change.
The NBC procedural is different than all the others, not only because of when it takes place but also because of the styling. It captures the era and that uniqueness makes it so captivating to watch.
