Eureka: Season One: DVD Review (2007)

Weird science.

A sketchy cross between "Northern Exposure," "The Twilight Zone," "The X-Files" and "Twin Peaks," "Eureka" borrows so liberally from each, it fails to come into its own.

Set in the Pacific Northwest nowhere of Eureka, where the government has tucked away some of the world's smartest scientists, the series stars Colin Ferguson as Jack Carter, a U.S. marshal who, along with his irritable daughter Zoe (Jordan Hinson), comes to know the locals, not to mention their unusual experiments.

The problem? The show wants to be too much to too many, and the characters, as such, struggle to find their groove.

Grade: C+