Post by NTB on Jun 8, 2011 22:18:45 GMT -5
Coming this fall to NTB from the creator of "The X-Files" is THYMESIA starring Brooke Burns, Jamie Dornan, Jared Gilmore, Kaitlyn Dever, Henry Simmons, and S. Epatha Merkerson.
PLOT: A new drama series starring a mother of two, Samantha Roberts, 30, graduated at the top of her class, one of the smartest individuals that has ever attended her school, and one of the youngest people to ever get a PHD. In fact, she is so smart with trivial bits she has heard about throughout her life that remained at the back of her mind, that many her closest friends and family consider her their go-to search engine. She, however, suffers from an ultra-rare condition called Hyperthymesia.
Hyperthymesia, otherwise known as superior autobiographical memory, affects just over half a dozen people in the world. On one hand, it is a remarkable ability where those with the condition are able to recall exactly what transpired on each day of their lives, where when one is asked a date, trivial details of events that occurred on the day can be explained that many have long forgot and would not be able to otherwise recall. Things that she may have overheard on television, or things that people may have talked about that she may have overheard remain in the back of her mind ready for use. On the other hand, every bad or negative thoughts that happened in the past will always be played in their mind like a scene from a movie on a DVD -- past fights with parents, silly decisions she's made in the past, and more.
But for Sam, she thought this condition was otherwise normal until she confronted the person who was responsible for the gruesome murder of her mother 16 years ago, trying to disguise himself. For anyone who has witnessed such a heinous crime, it would be hard to try to erase such a memory. But for Sam, she has been replaying the crime scene for almost two decades, noticing something different from that tragic day every time she relives it. For years, she has been on the look for the murderer who was never found -- in fact, the murder remains an open case all these years later. Between trying to balance her two kids, her husband, and working as a professor at a prestigious University, she's also been on the look for the murderer with a photographic memory of the man who committed the deed unlike anyone else.
When she eventually finds a man who she is convinced is the murderer, she enters what many consider an unstable state, telling police what they consider obscure details of the crime that police never recovered, not knowing that Sam possess a superior autobiographical memory. Family and people treating her -- including her worried husband, father (who was also at the scene of the crime with the same point of view as Sam), her kids, doctors, and police -- increasingly start thinking that Sam has gone crazy, convinced that she is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder almost two decades later. With the job supporting her family, possibly being put inside a medical treatment, and revenge on the line, will she be able to finally get justice?
PLOT: A new drama series starring a mother of two, Samantha Roberts, 30, graduated at the top of her class, one of the smartest individuals that has ever attended her school, and one of the youngest people to ever get a PHD. In fact, she is so smart with trivial bits she has heard about throughout her life that remained at the back of her mind, that many her closest friends and family consider her their go-to search engine. She, however, suffers from an ultra-rare condition called Hyperthymesia.
Hyperthymesia, otherwise known as superior autobiographical memory, affects just over half a dozen people in the world. On one hand, it is a remarkable ability where those with the condition are able to recall exactly what transpired on each day of their lives, where when one is asked a date, trivial details of events that occurred on the day can be explained that many have long forgot and would not be able to otherwise recall. Things that she may have overheard on television, or things that people may have talked about that she may have overheard remain in the back of her mind ready for use. On the other hand, every bad or negative thoughts that happened in the past will always be played in their mind like a scene from a movie on a DVD -- past fights with parents, silly decisions she's made in the past, and more.
But for Sam, she thought this condition was otherwise normal until she confronted the person who was responsible for the gruesome murder of her mother 16 years ago, trying to disguise himself. For anyone who has witnessed such a heinous crime, it would be hard to try to erase such a memory. But for Sam, she has been replaying the crime scene for almost two decades, noticing something different from that tragic day every time she relives it. For years, she has been on the look for the murderer who was never found -- in fact, the murder remains an open case all these years later. Between trying to balance her two kids, her husband, and working as a professor at a prestigious University, she's also been on the look for the murderer with a photographic memory of the man who committed the deed unlike anyone else.
When she eventually finds a man who she is convinced is the murderer, she enters what many consider an unstable state, telling police what they consider obscure details of the crime that police never recovered, not knowing that Sam possess a superior autobiographical memory. Family and people treating her -- including her worried husband, father (who was also at the scene of the crime with the same point of view as Sam), her kids, doctors, and police -- increasingly start thinking that Sam has gone crazy, convinced that she is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder almost two decades later. With the job supporting her family, possibly being put inside a medical treatment, and revenge on the line, will she be able to finally get justice?