KEVIN GREENE-ILLUSTRATOR

The other night I watched the first three episodes of Drive, the new show on Fox, about an illegal cross country race. It’s kinda like “Lost” on wheels…but it’s good. It’s not derivative. I mean, you know the source material when you see it but it’s good. It’s anchored by my man Nathan Fillion, who will ALWAYS be Captain Malcolm Reynolds of “Firefly” fame. But he is so immensely likable, you want to root for him in anything. But there was one moment in the third episode that I want to talk about.
Long story short, Fillion plays Alex Tully, a man that is searching for his kidnapped wife but apparently has a past as a wheel man for bank robberies. He has been captured
And imprisoned by this cop that accuses him of this. But he keeps denying it. Finally, he admits that he is an illegal cross-country race but not a wheel man and this cop admits to being a fake that works for the guys running the race and that he wanted to remind Tully of who he really is. And they give him back his bank robbin’ car, this nasty-ass, vicious looking Dodge Challenger. This thing is BAD. It’s black with this dark blue stripe that runs up either side of the body and it is just beautiful.
And Tully jumps in his car, saves this chick that’s riding with him and gets back into the race. He is tearing down this highway and all the other characters on the show, driving different cars can HEAR hum coming. They hear this throaty growl and they look back and that bad-ass ride goes by them like they are standing still. There’s these cool shots of Fillion driving the car and it’s shot like a car commercial where they lock the camera to the car and only the background is moving. But you can see the whole car ripping down this highway. Trucks are spinning out behind him and he is just slicing thru traffic. All the characters are like “ What the f$%& is that?!?” and this monster just dusts them. He burns this Firebird like it’s nothing, just tearing s@&% up and announcing that he is the man to beat. And they play a different version of Lunatic Calm’s “Leave You Far Behind” during the whole thing, which sounded GREAT while this is all going on. The last shot of this sequence is Fillion driving with this scowl that slowly turns into a small smile that says “ Yeah, muthaf*(%#@s, Alex Tully is BACK.”
It was the coolest thing I’ve seen on television this year, EASY.
Watch “Drive” Mondays at 8 on Fox.