8.5Season 1 • Episode 22
LatestLisa learns some unsettling facts about her husband's death and Dr. Theo Morris, Michael tries to decide what to do while he has no tracking device implanted in him and The Eggman and his fellow inmate, Charlie, plan an escape from their prison.
When insurance salesman and family man Michael Wiseman is killed in a subway accident, the U.S. government preserves his brain and puts it into a new, genetically bio-engineered body that's young, attractive, and can do anything a superhero can do. But as a top-secret experiment and weapon, the new and improved Michael can never let his wife Lisa or daughter Heather know his true identity. With the strict but brilliant Dr. Morris as his mentor, Michael takes on deadly terrorists, corrupt agents, killer bugs, and an extremely dangerous international criminal known as "the Egg Man." Michael can do anything...except stay away from the family that he loves.
Acting
Eric Close plays two Michaels: schlubby dad AND confused supermodel
Writing
Caron balances absurd premise with genuine family grief
Direction
Moonlighting creator brings that same off-kilter romantic tension
Creator
Glenn Gordon Caron
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Caron created this after Moonlighting to explore male aging and obsolescence — the super body is literalized wish fulfillment that becomes its own prison.
The 1999-2000 season killed multiple genre shows; this and Freaks and Geeks shared the same graveyard slot on CBS.
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