Last Rewatch: 28/11/2016 - 10/5/2017 - Current Rewatch: 2023/09/10 -
Jarod's new mission in life is to help people in need with his gift, and to find out what really happened to his allegedly dead parents. Only, Miss Parker and her team are out to get him...
The Pretender aired from September 1996 till May 13th 2000. It ran four seasons and there were two movies released by TNT in 2001. The first one called "Pretender 2001" and the other one "The Island of the Haunted". Unfortunately the planned third movie, to give the show a well deserved closure, was cancelled, presumably because the low ratings of the first two movies? I honestly don't know but this seems logical. I've watched The Pretender somewhere between 5 to 10 times, last time in 2017. The Pretender is one of my all time favorite TV shows ever made.
Of course you can ask yourself, but has this anything to do with SCI-FI? At most there are some SCI-FI elements in there, what happens in The Centre hopefully is SCI-FI! Jarod's capabilities perhaps? Anyway, when I saw IMDb labelling it "Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi", I knew I had an excuse to add The Pretender to this website. I know some of you think it doesn't belong here, and some of you do think it belongs here but it is what it is.
This is really an exceptional show, with fantastic actors, really great story telling. Of course the show was one huge arc: Jarod escapes and tries to find his parents. And The Centre, in the person of Miss Parker, is trying to bring him "home". If you haven't ever watched this, it is highly recommended!
Plot (IMDb):
Jarod is a pretender, a very intelligent person with the ability to slide into somebody else's personality. For that purpose, he has been taken from his family as a child in order to work for a secret agency called The Centre. But recently, he escaped.
The Pretender Season 1 - Trailer & Opening Theme
Episode Guide
Season 1:
- Pilot
- Every Picture Tells a Story
- Flyer
- Curious Jarod
- The Paper Clock
- To Serve and Protect
- A Virus Among Us
- Not Even a Mouse
- Mirage
- The Better Part of Valor
- Bomb Squad
- Prison Story
- Bazooka Jarod
- Ranger Jarod
- Jaroldo!
- Under the Reds
- Keys
- Unhappy Landings
- Jarod's Honor
- Baby Love
- The Dragon House (1)
- The Dragon House (2)
Season 2:
- Back From the Dead Again
- Scott Free
- Over the Edge
- Exposed
- Nip and Tuck
- Past Sim
- Collateral Damage
- Hazards
- F/X
- Indy Show
- Gigolo Jarod
- Toy Surprise
- A Stand Up Guy
- Unforgotten
- Bulletproof
- Silence
- Crash
- Stolen
- Red Rock Jarod
- Bank
- Bloodlines (1)
- Bloodlines (2)
Season 3:
- Crazy
- Hope and Prey
- Once in a Blue Moon
- Someone to Trust
- Betrayal
- Parole
- Homefront
- Flesh and Blood
- Murder 101
- Mr. Lee
- The Assassin
- Unsinkable
- Pool
- At the Hour of Our Death
- Countdown
- P.T.B.
- Ties That Bind
- Wake Up
- End Game
- Qallupilluit
- DoNotErase (1)
- DoNotErase (2)
Season 4:
- The World's Changing
- Survival
- Angel's Flight
- Risque Business
- Road Trip
- Extreme
- Wild Child
- Rules of Engagement
- 'Til Death Do Us Part
- Spin Doctor
- Cold Dick
- Lifeline
- Ghosts From the Past
- The Agent of Year Zero
- Junk
- School Daze
- Meltdown
- Corn Man A Comin
- The Inner Sense (1)
- The Inner Sense (2)
- The Pretender 2001
- The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
*Last 2 "episodes" in season 4 are the 2 Pretender movies
Blogs written about The Pretender
The Pretender on DVD
Characters
Jarod
Miss Parker
Sydney
Broots
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