John Doe follows a man who knows everything, except who he is, where he comes from and why he's got all these facts stuck in his head. Created by Mike Thompson and Brandon Camp (and neither have really done anything else worth mentioning), starring Dominic Purcell as John Doe and supported by Jayne Brook, John Marshall Jones, William Forsythe and Sprague Grayden.
While there's a arch story about John Doe searching for his past, and a Phoenix organization, it really never intrigued me at all. The only thing left is a procedural with some human growth, but mostly with uninteresting characters. It's not much different than MacGyver when you break it down, and from me that's not a compliment. They could have done a lot better if they managed to evolve some characters more, and these support's storylines as well. The only one they are close to achieve that with is Sprague Grayden's Karen, but both Jayne Brook and John Marshall Jones' characters should have taken further steps.
I haven't got any problem understanding why Fox pulled the plug on this one, as they also did both Fastlane and, more annoying than anything else, Firefly that season. Those sports-choices made that season really didn't help scripted TV on Fox, having at least these three one hour shows axed.
★★☆☆☆ Overall Quality
This show also shot them self in the foot by killing off the only character with some flavor. I don't mind killing off characters to make the hero or heroine have some growth, grief or whatever, and I think they actually do it too rarely in TV, but here they managed to kill off what little interest I had left by taking away the one character whom actually carried some weight beside the protagonist. They didn't even manage to tie it in with some interesting development or change, and that's just weak.
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