The year is 2006. An asteroid has crashed into the moon blasting it to three huge chunks of chaos. Time passes, and humanity is cast not in ruin, but in great amounts of insanity. The moon ended as they knew it but it did not end life completely. Now everyone on earth is acting a little bit crazy because another big chunk of la luna may fall and cause true earthly disaster. By a little bit crazy I mean they’re living life as if it may end tomorrow, because it just might. That is the premise of Three Moons over Milford.
I’m not sure what ABC Family has been drinking but I’m damn sure they should chug more down. First we get the deceptively good Kyle XY(see tomorrow for thoughts on this), then we get this neat and wacky premise for an hour long comedy-drama. When did cable TV get so brave with their programming schedule? And on a family channel no less.
Obviously the theme of the show is to live life to the fullest, cause you never know when the world will end. The whole near destruction of the moon idea leads to brilliant symbolism and a way to visually back up the theme.
Other shows that deal with a damaged moon come to mind. In Cowboy Bebop an accident with three dimensional travel took a huge chunk of the moon and scattered its bits into near Earth orbit. That led to semi-constant moon rock showers. Thundarr‘s premise dealt with a runaway planet merely passing between the Earth and moon’s orbit. That near-miss led to sorcery, newfound magic-hating barbarians, and moks.
Three Moons over Milford probably won’t step into those bounds. Although, in the pilot, the school was burned down because a group of teen wiccans tried to cast a spell to heal the moon. It failed, of course, but again, oh the story possibilities that abound.
