Bionic Woman (2007)

Remake of The Bionic Woman (1976 series).

Laeta Kalogridis is one of the writers attached to this series.

Cast

• Michelle Ryan as Jaime Sommers
• Lucy Hale as Becca Sommers
• Katee Sackhoff as Sarah Corvus (recurring)
• Will Yun Lee as Jae Kim

Comments

Annalee Newitz at Alternet compared the premise of the old vs. the new series:

This time around, Jaime isn't an independent career jock: she's a 23-year-old bartender and college dropout who has just gotten pregnant and is about to marry her surgeon boyfriend. (...)

This kind of weirdly retrograde treatment of Jaime and her relationship is all the more perplexing because the show is produced by David Eick, whose other show, Battlestar Galactica, is known for its strong female characters. Indeed, when Eick talked about Bionic Woman before the show debuted, he claimed it would focus on how we feel about women's roles now that we know women can do anything men can. Jaime is hardly the kind of woman to tell that sexual equality story. She's in a low-status, low-paying job, looking down the barrel of her future as little more than a rich man's wife.

(...) the entire premise of the show -- that Jaime becomes a "saving the world" type -- is founded on the idea that she has no choice because her body literally does not belong to her. Most of her body parts are the property of a corporation. We are left to assume that if she refuses to do what Wolf Creek tells her, they'll take their toys back and she'll die.

External Links

• IMDb listing
• NBC Fall Preview (include video clips)
• Television Without Pity episode recaps

References

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