Review of Circus
by sstrider:

Vincent plays Shawn in this pilot for a weekly serial called "Circus." He is a normal young man who is the son of midgets and has always lived in the circus. The story reminded me of the television program, "Promised Land" which was very family oriented. The main topic of the program seemed to be the people who worked in the circus were all a core family. Many have enjoyed an entire lifetime together.

Shawn was the young manager of the circus. Conrad Simpson, the owner of the circus, gave this job to Shawn partly because Simpson’s own son had left the circus some years before. The circus was suffering from financial problems mainly because there weren’t as many people coming to the circus as there had been years before. Employees talked to Conrad asking him to raise the price of admission and of items that were sold to the audience. He refused to raise the prices, saying that he wanted to keep things the way they had always been. Everyone seemed to know about these problems except Mr. Simpson. Things were so bad that they had to let three employees go.

There was a young boy, Jason, about five years old. He worked with his
grandfather as a clown.  Jason’s parents had been trapeze artists who lost their lives while working on the trapeze without a net. His grandfather had been caring for him since his parents died.  All the people in the circus had been keeping an eye on Jason, too.

Mr. Simpson’s son, Scott, came back to the circus because he heard that they were having financial problems. Scott had gone to Tuscon to get an education. His major in college was marketing. He came back to offer to help his father get the circus back on its feet. He wanted to replace all the old games on the midway with video games. He also was going to team up with other investors to buy out Mr. Simpson. Conrad didn’t like this idea at all. He didn’t want to give up something that had been his whole life.

Jason watched the new trapeze artist practicing for the next show. He became very frightened and ran away. Everyone in the circus pulled together and searched for Jason. The police found him at a school and his grandfather went to get him and bring him home. He told Jason that he missed Jason’s mother and father, too. He told him that they were family and that he would always be there for Jason.

Scott ran into a woman who looked very familiar to him. He finally figured out that this women’s name was Jen and that she had run away from her family who was very rich. Her family had been searching for her for quite a while. Shawn overheard this conversation. He confronted Jen the next day and she was afraid that he was going to tell her folks where she was. Shawn assured her that her secret was safe with him because they were "family."

I found this to be a pleasant program which would be something that you could enjoy watching with your children. Can’t find too many of programs like that these days.

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