The Pretender

About The Pretender

Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out.

The Pretender is a mystery, science fiction, and fantasy series that ran on NBC. Its themes are anti hero, undercover, justice, and prodigy.

It ran for 4 seasons and 86 episodes between September 1996 and May 2000. Seasons run to about 22 episodes.

Michael T. Weiss stars as Jarod, Andrea Parker as Miss Parker, Patrick Bauchau as Sydney, and Jon Gries as Broots. It comes from 20th Century Fox Television, MTM Enterprises, and NBC Studios.

Human Trafficking, Sherlock, and The X-Files make useful companions to The Pretender, all filed under conspiracy and investigation. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 226 votes and it carries a TV-14 rating.