Touch tells the story about how Martin Bohm (Kiefer Sutherland) tries to communicate with his autistic child, Jake (David Mazouz), who seems to only know how to through numbers. Jake's mother and Martin's wife died in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks. Since then, Martin has struggled to raise his 11 year old child who has never said a word in his life, only attempting to communicate through the numbers he viciously writes down over and over again in a notebook of his. In the series debuting episode, Jake's repeated escapes from his special school leads social worker, Clea Hopkins (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) to question Martin's ability to raise Jake. Meanwhile Jake repeatedly writes down the same pattern of numbers in his notebook. Finally when Martin manages to interpret the numbers he finds out that it is possible for him to "touch" with his son, because of this he manages to save a man from dying. I will not give away any more of the series' plot as that is for you to find out by watching the episodes.
The show has received a generally positive review and, as you can see by the screen shot above, currently holds a Metacritic score of 63 out of 100. Verne Gay of Newsday wrote "A bit melodramatic, a bit manipulative, Touch is still one of the best pilots of the 2011-12 season to date." The debut was received by a whopping total of 12.01 million US viewers, however the number has diminished with every episode after that, the last episode that has aired, which is the 10th episode of the series received merely 6.02 million US viewers, almost half of the debuting episode. The last two episodes of the first season will both air the 31th of May in the US, the show already renewed for a second season on May 9th, 2012.
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