Touch

Season 1 Episode 2

1+1=3

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Jake challenges his father to follow the links after a robbery in a pawn shop connects a frantic flight attendant who is chasing a lost dog at the airport, a young man from India who wants to spread his father's ashes at a baseball field, a magician in a middle school in Moscow who doesn't understand why has has no friends, a cancer patient in New York City, and a mobster in the Bronx.

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  • Touch Episode 2: Oh, What a Tangled Web

    Touch isn’t slacker television. Each episode is a finished story, a tiny epic. Our only concern is that the format might get tedious after several episodes.

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    • i love my father

      9.0
      What was the title of the song played during the ending part, at the bridge. It's about i love my father. . . in the lyrics of the song.



      s01e02. so great. :)

    • If This Show Goes On Like This...

      2.0
      The second episode was full of unbelieveble coincidents and Hallmark sensitivty. And it was boring as hell. If there won't be any mythology under these events and suspence this will be an unwatchable show.
    • 1+1=3

      10
      1+1=3 was a perfect episode of Touch. I really enjoyed watching because Jake continues to communicate through numbers, more connections are made, and the character development was awesome. I felt various emotions during the many scenes of people helping each other being led to perhaps a second chance of their own. The format is engaging and the writing and acting really made me feel connected to these characters. Jake's narrations are intriguing. I look forward to watching the next episode!!!!!!!!!moreless
    • Very enjoyable hour of TV.

      10
      Perhaps not quite as good as the pilot episode, but I still found this to be a very enjoyable hour of TV. The storyline was incredibly interesting, especially because it's so fascinating how small things in the lives of certain people can be so inter-connected. It's quite fascinating, really, and even though this is a fictitious TV show, I think there is some truth to it.



      There were some not so enjoyable moments thorughout the episode, but for the most part, it was really interesting. I loved how things came to be at the end, and it was quite enjoyable to see.



      I think the show has a lot of potential. It's up to them to make the most of it! ;)moreless
    • Possibly one of the worst episodes of TV ever

      1.5
      This show could be good if the writers showed some restraint. Had one or two plot threads, and unfolded them slowly. But I imagine the script planning sessions go something like this. "Name a profession: clown! Name a location: ice cream parlour. Name an animal: a monkey". Then they link them all together in some overblown narrative. "A monkey escapes the zoo... runs into the ice cream parlour... when an ex-clown realises he misses his clown-monkey double act, becomes a clown again and makes a child laugh. That child is so happy and that child's grandfather (who runs the ice cream parlour) realises that life is good, he keeps his ice cream parlour open and everyone lives happily ever after."



      Turning back to the real episode, it is just cringeworthy. A crimelord gives up violence because his kid is upset. Okay yeah. A woman cries when her dad is mentioned... wait for it viewers, we'll come back to that. A man is upset that his daughter has fallen out with him. Can you see the dots forming viewers? Can you?



      I joked that it could only get worse if she and the dog would come bounding on to the bridge at the end thinking it couldn't possibly be that brazen... oh yes it can.



      Just truly dreadful.moreless
    Jude Ciccolella

    Jude Ciccolella

    Arnie Klepper

    Guest Star

    Amy Sloan

    Amy Sloan

    Becca Klepper

    Guest Star

    Karan Soni

    Karan Soni

    Young Man from India

    Guest Star

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      • Jake: (opening monologue) My name is Jake. I was born 4,165 days ago on October 26, 2000. I live on this planet with seven billion, eighty-million, three hundred sixty-thousand other people. This is a story of some of those people. Today the average person will say 2,250 words to 7.4 individuals. We'll send over 300 billion e-mails, 19 billion text messages, all adding to the giant mosaic of patterns and ratios. Mathematical in design, these patterns are hidden in plain sight. You just have to know where to look, but only some of us can see how the pieces fit together. It's all been predetermined by mathematical probability, and it's my job to keep track of those numbers, to make the connections for those who need to find each other… the ones whose lives need to touch. I was born on October 26, 2000. I've been alive for eleven years, four months, twenty-five days and thirteen hours and, in all that time, I've never said a single word. But that's okay. I have someone who hears me now.

      • Jake: (closing monologue) Seven billion people on a tiny planet, suspended in the vastness of space, all alone. How we make sense of that is the great mystery of our frail existence. Maybe it's being alone in the universe that holds us all together, keeps us needing one another in the smallest of ways. Creating a quantum entanglement of you, of me, of us. And if that's really true, then we live in a world where anything is possible.

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