Kyle XY

This is such a good television programme, not just because the lead actor, Matt Dallas, is a total hottie, but because of the way the writers have written and produced it.

Kyle is not your typical boy, he doesn’t have a belly button, (and they show a lot of his body shots!) and he has amnesia.  At the beginning of the programme he wakes up in the woods, completely naked (yeah completely naked) in America (of all places) and he has no recollection of who he is, how he came to be there, or what he is.  Yeah you read right, he doesn’t even know that he’s a human.

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What’s even more crazy is that he’s a super human, and they show this while he’s in the woods when he manages to catch a snake just before it bites him.  As he wanders around he eventually gets picked up by the police and gets sent to juvenile jail, and soon a psychiatrist Nicole Tragger is sent to see him.  She takes pity on him and brings him to her home where he begins a new life as Kyle Tragger.

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The tragger family are behind Kyle, with the father Steven on the far left, daughterLori and son Josh, Nicole Tragger is the only blonde one and she’s on the far right.

Each episode of the first season brings you closer to his forgotten past and the reasons why he’s able to do amazing, incredible things.  I don’t want to give away too much if you’ve never seen this programme before but he is able to do mathematic equations in a few seconds, and he also has a knack for understanding computer programmes.  He’s also able to pick things up really really fast, I mean in the programme if someone just shows him how to do a few things,  he’s able to do it flawlessly.  (Look out for the swimming episode and the one where he has to take a history test to go to high school!)

The show mainly concentrates on Kyle’s thoughts and feelings, as he learns about humans and how we live in the 20th Century and gives his insights on the why we lie, cheat, steal, hurt others, and basically be human.  It’s ann amazing programme not just because the lead role is a hottie, which I already mentioned, but also the things he’s able to do on the show leaves you with the question of just what is Kyle? He looks human enough, and begins to act like us, but he’s something a bit more different than that and it’s this mystery that keeps you interested and hooked on the programme.

It’s only got about three seasons, the first only has ten episodes but they are about 45 minutes long, so think of smallville, rather than scrubs, the second season has the most episodes with 23 and the last has about another ten, so all in all it’s not that long a series.  It wraps everything up in the third season, or so that’s what I’ve heard, and I am eagerly and impatiently waiting for the second season to be shown on tv, as I’m stuck in England, to see what happens next.  (If you haven’t seen the show I’m not going to tell you what happens at the end of the first season but if you have seen it then you know what I mean!)