Rating: Summary: It's About Time!!! Review: If only today's tv shows could have half of the imagination of this short lived series, TV would be much more interesting to watch. I can't wait for Season 2!
Rating: Summary: You can't get your eyes off the screen! Review: In this series, Chris managed to combine intelligent estories and excellent actors. The stories are really envlolving. Besides that, it's amazing to see some brilliant actors who had great performances on the X-files series, acting again. Again, I would list Millenium next to the best TV shows ever like Star Trek, The X-files, Seinfeld to name but a few. TV fans from all over have to thank for this extraordinary show.
Rating: Summary: Why this show was cancelled - my opinion Review: It is easy to see after viewing the 3 seasons why this show was then cancelled even if was done by Chris Carter of X-Files and 9 seasons fame. Do not get me wrong the show is quite good and addictive but it turns to too much different things in 3 seasons. The atmosphere is X-Files (no wonder with Chris Carter directing and Mark Snow doing the musical score) so if you like X-Files you are going to like this. However as said too many changes from season to season more than likely lost the audience on the road.
The first season is probably the best (Chris Carter left after...) as it is a dark murder mystery investigation show. Character well defined and well acted. Also the problem Frank Black has reconciling family life with a wife and daughter with his work investigating serial killers and the very evil of humanity is well shown. The millenium group at this point is nothing out of the ordinary only ex-law enforcement agents consulting on particular crimes.
The second season after Chris Carter leaves takes definitely a total different twist. The murder investigations take backseat to the mystery of the millenium group. A lot of mystical and religious elemnts are introduced and also "funky" episodes like 'Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense' or 'Satan Got Behind Me' that do not quite fit with the nature of the show and are to say the least distracting. All in all not as good as the first season but still enjoyable. One more thing the last episode is not very believable and is not really explained well in the third season. Warning spoiler----> Frank's Wife dies in this episode.
The third season then it turns to 'X-Files Mulder & Sculley wannabe". Frank is back to FBI is paired with another female agent Emma Hollis but no chemistry like Mulder and Sculley, the episodes turn also to look X-Filish but without capturing the spirit of X-Files. So the show albeit it gains in suspense it goes down the drain at this point for lack of originality and too many twists and turns.
Rating: Summary: About Time Millennium Hit DVD After 5 Years This Show Rocks! Review: It's about time Fox decided to release, what was probably the best TV series to ever hit the air ways, Millennium. Thanks to Pete Staddon and his belief in Millennium it's finally coming to DVD. The Fox Execs. need to get their heads out of their butts and go ahead and start making seasons 2 & 3 as this season is going to fly off the shelves.For anyone who hasn't seen this series your in for a treat. There has never been a TV series of any kind that captured my attention as much as Millennium. I was addicted. If I couldn't be home to watch the show,I had my VCR recording it. "IT WAS THAT GOOD". If you liked the show The Profiler trust me when I say it was a cheap knockoff. Millennium with Lance Henriksen was the Bomb. (...). I would have paid more. Trust me Get this Season! You'll love it! 5 Stars All The Way Baby!!!!!
Rating: Summary: Excellent, Intelligent, entrancing Review: Possibly the most powerful single episode in this season is "Powers Principalities.." etc.
This is not to say that the other episodes are any less, simply that on a first take, it stands out; each episode has a power point.
I am hard pressed to see why this series is called "Bleak", but then, that would explain why AMERICAN GOTHIC was canned.
It is an intelligent, thoughtful, and very powerful take on some fictional stories.
I don't know, or care, if it is a look at the "Truth" ( Whose truth?? ), but the series is superb. Lance Henrikson is great as Frank Black, and his role is well delivered ... I have watched all but the extras on disc 6, but as yet I don't know what preparation Henrikson did for the character, but I sure would love to know, since everything I have seen by Henrikson, and some recent TV work, has been just brilliant.
The sound is great, the video is great, and hopefully you have 5.1 audio playback... its worth it !!!
Rating: Summary: Nothing Else Comes Close Review: The first time I saw this show, I was watching an X-File rerun at midnight on FX channel. I actually fell asleep about 20 minutes into that X-File ep, and when I woke up a few minutes after 1:00 a.m., and was reaching for the remote to turn off the tv, Millennium suddenly came on. The episode was "The Mikado," and two minutes into it I shook off my comatose state and was riveted for the next hour. Actually, for the rest of the night, because the show was so compelling, I could not stop thinking about it until the sun came up and never went back to sleep. That was the start of my obsession, and I was setting my alarm for 1:00 a.m. every night thereafter until FX took the show off the air. If ever there was a series worthy of a DVD box set - this is it.
Rating: Summary: My Word How Do They Do It? Review: this season is amazing!!! Chris Carter has surpassed himself! the episode start of fairly tame. a few murders here and there and it's pretty much ur standard mystery thriller series. as the episodes progress, you see more and more that there's something not normal going on in all of these cases. a few unexpected twists and no weak episodes at all make this one of the greatest t.v. accomplishments ever. im just going through season 2 now and it's looking good!!! BRING ON MORE!!!!
Rating: Summary: Overdue release of an underrated and unappreciated show Review: This show remains my favorite bar none. It was a sad year when Millennium was yanked off the network. FOX screwed up royally with that idiotic move. It has taken a very long to release one season of a show thats material is better than 99% of the stuff aired today. I ordered it as soon as it was available. I will celebrate its arrival. This show is a wonderful study, analysis, and discussion on good vs. evil, sacrifice, love, humanity, spirituality, and loyalty. It is also a primer on conspiracy theories, secret societies, apocalyptic theories, and paranormal. Now let me ask you - why would a show like that be cancelled? Why would it take 3 years to release the first year on DVD? Buy it, enjoy it, share it. The time is now
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