Entertaining from beginning to end. Prepare yourself for the shocking finale!
"RUNAWAY" was a thrilling series created by Chad Hodge and was executive produced by Darren Star ("Sex and the City", "Beverly Hills 90210', "Melrose Place") that began airing on CW (when the network just began) and unfortunately, due to a bad time slot, didn't receive good ratings. So, originally planned for 13-episodes, nine were filmed and only three aired in the US (while in Europe, all nine episodes were shown).
The series revolves around the Rader family. A family of five that has moved from town-to-town and changing their identities after Paul Rader (Donnie Wahlberg), a successful attorney wrongfully accused of the death of Erin Baxter, who worked at his law firm (and the series shows that the two are close). But the killer sends a package to his wife Lily (Leslie Hope) that their children Henry (Dustin Milligan), Hannah (Sarah Ramos) and Tommy (Nathan Gamble) will be next.
To protect the family, Paul and Lilly have moved from around as fugitives and...
DRAMATIC SERIES
THE 2 DVD BOX SET HAS EVERY EPISODE OF THIS SHORT LIVED EXCELLENT SHOW INCLUDING A SATISFYING CONCLUSION
Great beginning, terrible ending
I was hooked on this series immediately when it was on tv. Great cast, great thriller premise, great setup. So I was happy to see it released on dvd. Disc one is great. Disc 2 piddles around for a bit forgetting what the show was about and wanting at times to be the typical (but not bad) CW teen relationship show. Then it was as if the writers were told "you have 5 minutes to wrap up the show and 10 minutes to shoot it." So, pissed off, they ended it. Really it would have been better not to try. The ending is completely out of sync with the show & while it does wrap up one loose end, it does so in a way that makes the rest of the series nonsensical. Glad I didn't buy this one! (Checked it out from the library.)
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