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Summary: To FOX/Chris Carter: Release ALL 3 SEASONS PLEASE!!!!!!
Review: "Millennium" changed my life forever. What can I say... I haven't stopped thinking about it since the Pilot aired many years ago now. It haunts me, inspires me in terms of what; a TV show can and could ever really be. It's truly amazing and unexplainable how much this TV series have meant to me and still do. Chris Carter is a THE GENIUS of TV-production ever. Combine that with Vancouver (BC, Canada) as the main location for filming the show; Mark Snow, Glen Morgan & James Wong, Chip Johannessen, and the many other's who's been part of the team behind "Millennium" and you have: a Television Series that have touched and to this day still do; millions of people around the world! Not to forget amazing actor's as Lance Henriksen, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Megan Gallagher, Britanny Tiplady, Klea Scott, Stephen E. Miller, Terry O Quinn and many many, many more!! I beg you Chris Carter and executives at Fox: Bring this show to DVD-box sets, all 3 seasons and you will never regret it - - PLEASE consider this; we are oh so many admirers of "Millennium"!! I can still remember those days when TV touched me in an undescribable way.... those were the days of "Millennium", through 1996 to 1999. Bring those memories and fellings back to us - - bring "Millennium" to DVD!
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Summary: Frank Black Is A Pimp
Review: 'Millenium' was one of the finest shows in recent television history. Created by 'X-Files' mastermind Chris Carter, the show ran on Fox for, sadly, only three seasons. 'Millenium' was one of the grittiest, goriest, and most disturbing shows ever on a network station.
The show is filled with violent imagery, symbolic meaning, lots of murders, and a little yellow house. This first season is basically a murder-of-the-week type format, but along the way bits of the series mythology are slowly dropped. This mythology would become the series' story arc over its final two seasons and the series moves away a bit from the one-serial-killer-per-episode.
Lance Henrickson is simply stunning as Frank Black. Henrickson rises above his B-movie roots and creates one of the most interesting and complex characters I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. His performance is fabulously understated and completely believable. Henrickson's performance makes you believe that Frank Black could be a real person.
The only knocks on the show are occassional gaps in narrative and Frank's extremely annoying wife and daughter. But all the good points outweigh the bad ones. This was one of the best shows on television, but it was ahead of its time and unfortunately was canceled after three years. This first year is a wonderful lead-in to the the stellar second and third seasons.
So all I have to say is this: Frank Black is a pimp.
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Summary: Finally, The time is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: After years of waiting, after years of suffering through FOX DVD releases like "Simple Life" and "Family Guy" , we finally get to own the most daring show FOX has ever aired, MILLENNIUM. Why did this take so long? Perhaps it was the dark subject matter, or the fact that the show was ahead of it's time, and still is. Whatever the reason, I have never forgotten the power this show held over me. Lance Henriksens incredible portrayal of "Frank Black" a tortured soul that can "see what the killer sees" is very hard to forget. This premise has been very poorly copied many times since. Terry O'Quinn as "Peter Watts" created a strong counterpoint to the lead.
The very first episode titled "The Frenchman" but referred to as "Pilot" sets the pace of the show. Strong follow-up episodes include "Lamentation" "Powers , Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" and "Maranatha"
Hopefully we will see the next 2 seasons as well. Episodes like "The Curse of Frank Black" and "Midnight of the Century" are quite possibly the best stories ever told on the small screen.
Special thanks to Peter Staddon for his continued struggle to bring this extraordinary series to DVD.
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Summary: MILLENNIUM ON DVD: After 5 years, you can't stop it...!
Review: Chris Carter's "MILLENNIUM" was the greatest show in the history of television: PERIOD! This brilliant, "Silence of the Lambs" like weekly TV show on Fox was original, fresh, vibrant and frightening. On October 25, 1996, Fox Network premiered Carter's latest vision (during the beginning of The X-Files' Season 4). The pilot saw the highest ratings of any Fox program at that time! Soon, the darkness of the show and the bleak storylines each week, ripping the lid off the dark, seamy underbelly of America seemed to get to viewers, and the ratings promptly dropped. But the show had a loyal and enthralled fan base turning up each week to see Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and Peter Watts (the incomparable Terry O'Quinn) solving disturbing serial killer cases and apocalyptic codes as the millennium approached. Season 1 saw such terrific hours of television as "Pilot", "Gehenna" (death cult in San Francisco), "Dead Letters" (murderer in Portland, OR), "The Judge" (creepy man passing judgement on victims), "522666" (mad bomber in DC), "Blood Relatives" (guy goes after bereaved), "The Well-Worn Lock" (disturbing tale of child molestation and incest), "The Wild and the Innocent" (brilliant Bonnie & Clyde road trip), "Weeds" (claustrophobic gated community story), "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" (sexual predator in Boulder, CO), "Force Majeure" (brilliant story of clones readying for apocalypse), "The Thin White Line" (a copycat haunts Frank from his past), "Sacrament" (Frank's sister-in-law is kidnapped), "Covenant" (brilliant story of falsely accused man who confesses to murdering his family in Utah), "Walkabout" (Frank is amnesiac after drug trial), "Lamentation" (Frank's partner is killed by demonic forces), "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" (a satanic force continues to threaten Frank and his family), "Broken World" (a man kills horses and escalates to psycho-sexual murders of human beings!), "Maranatha" (the Russian Antichrist is behind shotgun murders in Brighton Beach), and the season finale, "Paper Dove", a part 1 of 2 in which Catherine (Frank's wife played by Megan Gallagher) is kidnapped in the end by her polaroid shooting stalker. The only one of these 22 episodes which gave me nightmares and trouble sleeping was the disturbing episode 9 "Wide Open" in which a man in Seattle takes refuge in real estate open houses and kills the native family after they're asleep (in their safely secure home). A girl sees him murder her family and becomes mute and traumatized by the experience. This one had me checking all the locks 3 times and even then I wanted to sleep with the light on (I was just shy of my 14th Birthday though)... "MillenniuM" thrived despite bad ratings, due to an unending support base from fans all over the world. Season 2 went under new management with Chris Carter stepping back and Glen Morgan & James Wong (The X-Files/Space: Above & Beyond) taking over exec producer duties. It was the best 23 hours of television ever, and certainly in the history of this show. Season 3 failed to garner as much intrigue and involvement, taking Chris Carter back as sometimes writer and Chip Johannessen and the disastrous Michael Duggan (wanna blame him for cancellation?) as exec producers. The story tried to finagle a bit of life out of the end of season 2 (an apocalyptic story which ended with the apparent wiping out of the west coast!) but it wasn't as daring, interesting or involving, still a fine piece of work most weeks and well worth owning for continuities' sake. "MillenniuM" was ahead of its time. It's 1999-2000 (season 4) end date was never reached officially till a band of united fans wrote 22 brilliant online scripts and week after week gave us something to love and look forward to on the internet. It was a proper ending to the show, recovering as best as possible from the less than stellar season 3. Now the show is coming to DVD, just 8 years after its debut and 5 years after the end of season 3/online scripts of season 4. But the show isn't over. Soon, on the internet, a weekly first season of 10 minute short episodes will air under the name "MillenniuM: Apocalypse". It will star a model and be crewed by fans/amateur filmmakers. It will be a low budget DIGITAL webcast series in which we follow the weekly exploits of Jordan Black, all grown up (near future?) as she follows her father's footsteps to the Millennium Group, as well as gains new and improved psychic insights and powers (genetically). It looks terrific, and proves whatever the numbers say, the legacy and fan's love of MILLENNIUM lives on! I plan to buy Season 1 the day it comes out, and have even taken on a summer job picking raspberries in Seattle, WA to pay for it while looking for a regular min. wage type job. I look very forward to season 2 (9/04!) and also season 3 (2005!). MILLENNIUM is something never to be forgotten. A CLASSIC! (P.S. buy Millennium and Carter's Harsh Realm if you want to see Space: Above & Beyond come to DVD next year!) PLEASE!
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Summary: One of the greatest TV series ever made
Review: Everything about Millennium in its first season speaks quality - from the atmospheric cinematography to the intelligent scripts, Millennium truly depicts what creative, thought-provoking televison is all about. The episodes in this first season are incredibly dark and brutal at times but the underlying theme of evil and how it manifests is an intruiging one. Despite its apparent bleak tone, Millennium portrays light and hope amongst all the death & carnage and constantly reminds us that evil is a matter of perspective which can effect all of us. Good people can indeed do evil things.
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Summary: Frank Black is Back! Frank Black is Back
Review: Frank Black is one of the most compelling characters to ever appear on a television screen. Lance Henriksen was masterfully cast as Frank - an Atticus Finch sort of guy who lives most of his life in the shadow world of psycho-predators; taking rest and recreation with his lovely wife and daughter in that bright yellow house. The series was masterfully shot, the writing was captivating. Each Friday evening was like going to the cinema for a 60 minute feature - I looked forward to each and every dark and disturbing episode :). I am so pleased they finally released season 1 to DVD and to see that it has sold so well - proof that we Americans are not just a bunch of dumb-bunnies when it comes to television and that the networks are force feeding us crap. I've read that Lance is very interested in reprising Frank Black on the big screen or for cable TV. Here's hoping Chris Carter will pick up the storyline in the near future...
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Summary: It's 2003 and I'm still thinking about the Millennium.
Review: I just popped in one of my archive tapes of the Millennium series and have been reminded that the Fox program starring Lance Henriksen is still my favorite show of all time. If a DVD set of all three seasons were released, I would buy it as soon as it hit Amazon.com's shelves. A show that matches Millennium's insight, brilliance and style has never come across the airwaves.
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Summary: A pleasent and disturbing awesome trip
Review: I remember this series when i was 17. My brother recorded it every friday with X-files when he was in his now wifes house so i can see it.
This serie is very interesting and..well lets be honest..disturbing..and sometimes lets you think about life..
I dont know what to say..just get it, worth the money.
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Summary: The show that changed crime and mystery
Review: I remember when Millenium aired, I wasn't really excited of it, mainly beacuse X-Files was on the spot.
A couple of years later, I got the opportunity to actually sit down and enjoy one of the episodes of season 1, and I had to agree that I missed a wonderful show.
Millenium turned out to be a thriller, in the same line that X-Files, but with and amazing storyline, and more developed characters right from the beginning. The way Frank Black was portrayed by Lance Henriksen was superb, and even the secondary actors and actresses were very good. The show threw us in the middle of some investigations (much in the line of the now popular CSI) but instead of going scientific with all those amazing gizmos they use to recreate a crime scene, Frank's gift was the ability to create a profile of the criminal and from there solve the crime. And is exactly this gift what gives the show such an intense deepness, when you are shown what Frank is putting together in his mind.
The Millenium group starts at the beginning being some contacts and friends for Frank, with almost no interaction with the story or any indication of what is the essence of the group which is perfectly fine for the first season, as it gives more detail to Frank's life and the lives of his family, his wife Katherine (Meghan Gallagher) and his daughter Jordan (Brittany Tiplady). The execution of each episode is magnificent, as you are always reminded of the essence of the show, which is the presence of evil, and how this evil afects the people who embraces it. And this is presented in a beautiful way by the interaction of Frank with his work as a profiler and his life as a husband and father.
I have waited a long time to see this DVD. It is amazing that even thought the show aired on 1996, you can still feel is fresh. It's quite exciting to look at the flashes and flashbacks Frank has and see how similar they are to some of the newer shows. The couple of documentals on the DVD are very good, and the ability to explore each episode individually is greatly appreciated. The pictures chosen for the intro of the DVDs is quite good also, and is very interesting to see some of the other extras. And they come with the original dubbing to other languages.
If you want to very critical about it, you may feel there were some other stuff that could have made it into the DVD, like some of the art and some of the original posters and ads could have been included in the DVD for printing.
But if you just want to watch the show, and enjoy the creepiness and mystery of it, this DVD set is for you. For those fans who saw the show in the past, it is a pleasure to actually see it become a reality and I can asure you, you won't be disappointed. For the people who have never seen the show, do yourself a favor and go and buy it. the storyline of the first season is so compeling and deep that you will be hooked to the story of Frank and the Millenium group.
When you finish watching it, you will want to buy the Second Season straight away.
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Summary: BEST SERIES EVER!
Review: I won't bother to rehash the particulars and details of the Millennium series. I'll just say this- Millennium was the last television drama I ever watched. When Fox cancelled it, there was no going back to the swill trough. This was the finest most thought and emotion provoking show I've ever seen. I'm not much of a TV watcher, but I loved everything about Millennium- everything. If the subject of the End Times interests you at all, or if you're on some kind of personal quest to understand evil in the world, I think the character of Frank Black will give you some inspiration, maybe even some hope. That's where I'm at.
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