Kyle XY
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Kyle XY is an American drama television series about Kyle, a boy who wakes up in the forest outside of Seattle, Washington with no memory of his life up until that point. The series follows Kyle as he tries to understand the mysteries of who he is, such as why he has no belly button or why he has no memory of being a child.
The show premiered June 26, 2006 on the ABC Family network; episodes are also broadcast on ABC and available for download from the iTunes Store.
After a 10-episode debut season on ABC Family during summer 2006, a total of 23 episodes were ordered for the second season, which started on June 11, 2007, with rebroadcasts on ABC beginning on June 15, 2007.
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[edit] Plot
Kyle is a sixteen-year-old teenager who wakes up in a forest on the edge of Seattle totally naked and without any memories of an earlier life. Kyle is like a newborn baby in his lack of knowledge of human social life: he doesn't know the simplest things, like how to eat or drink, and cannot communicate with others. When Kyle walks naked into a nearby town, he is picked up by the police. As they cannot find his records, he is taken to a childrens' home where it is discovered he doesn't have a belly button. Nicole Trager, a therapist, is interested in Kyle. She realizes Kyle doesn't belong at the home and brings him to her home while the police look for his family. The series follows Kyle and the Trager family as Kyle develops socially and searches for answers to his past.
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main Cast
- Matt Dallas as Kyle
- Marguerite MacIntyre as Nicole Trager
- Bruce Thomas as Stephen Trager
- April Matson as Lori Trager
- Jean-Luc Bilodeau as Josh Trager
- Chris Olivero as Declan McDonough
- Kirsten Prout as Amanda Bloom
- Jaimie Alexander as Jessi
[edit] Recurring Cast
- Nicholas Lea as Tom Foss
- Leah Cairns as Emily Hollander
- Conrad Coates as Ballantine
- Cory Monteith as Charlie Tanner
- Chelan Simmons as Hillary
- Teryl Rothery as Carol Bloom
- Martin Cummins as Brian Taylor
- J. Eddie Peck as Adam Baylin
- Sarah-Jane Redmond as Rebecca Thatcher
- Kurt Max Runte as Detective Jason Breen
- Magda Apanowicz as Andy Jensen
- Andrew Jackson as Cyrus Reynolds
- Bill Dow as Professor William Kern
[edit] Episode list
[edit] Alternate reality game
Kyle XY as a series also features an alternate reality game where the players are "invited" to help solve the mystery of who Kyle really is. The Mada Corporation website is the game's rabbit hole the introduction to the game universe. By clicking on "Our Jobs" in the menu, the gamer is taken to an anti-Madacorp Blog, where clues are left for revealing the truth about Kyle. This part of the series is a lot like Lost's DHARMA Initiative. It has been removed since the premiere of Season 2 and the Mada Corporation Website has been completely re-done to act as a real working website. It Currently appears as if the MadaCorporation and Latnok Society are both competing against each other. And it also appears that The Madacorporation is using science for bad deeds and The Latnok Society for good because of Tom Foss's request for the player to Join the Latnok Society in Clue Tracker 2.0 in the Kyle XY website.
[edit] Show facts
- In the first episode a TV report on the appearance of a girl, who washed up on the beach with no memory, is shown. It has not been referenced since.
- The premise of Kyle XY is similar to John Doe, although it was supposedly created before the latter became a series. Also Kyle was given the name John Doe, a common alias given to patients in hospitals that have no identification, by the mental institution who took him in after he was discovered nude roaming in the city.
- Declan's surname, McDonough, is not revealed until the sixth episode Blame It on the Rain, when Declan meets Stephen Trager. The show's website originally mentioned it as being "McMannus" (Declan MacManus is the real name of Elvis Costello), while closed captioning for the show identified it as "McDunaugh". The alternate reality game mistakenly indicated that it was "Tanner," which was actually the last name of Charlie, Amanda's boyfriend.
- When Kyle speaks for the first time, Josh exclaims, "He's like that Indian from Cuckoo's Nest!" This is a reference to Chief Bromden from the 1962 Ken Kesey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
- Even though the series takes place in Seattle, it is actually filmed in the Vancouver, British Columbia area.
- Throughout most episodes, Sour Patch Kids candies are mentioned or shown in the background as they are the show's main sponsor.
- When the character of Adam Baylin is mentioned for the first time in the eighth episode Memory Serves, his last name was spelled "Bailen" in the closed-captioning. However, it is spelled "Baylin" on ABC Family's official website, and so the latter spelling is considered Canon canonical.
