Millennium: Seasons 1-3 Streaming
Lundi, août 9th, 2010 |
Millennium: Seasons 1-3 Streaming.
Movie Title: Millennium: Seasons 1-3 Millennium: Seasons 1-3 is available for streaming or downloading. |
***spoilers follow***
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MILLENNIUM is at first a product of its times, a manifestation of the mid to late nineties fear of what Y2K could bring. Its easy to look back now in hindsight and dismiss millennial tension as group hysteria, but there were a great many people who had serious concerns of what could happen, and looked for answers
It’s also easy to dismiss its innovative mature and sombre tone when it has been copied to lesser effect in the last ten years with other procedural shows like CSI and COLD CASE.
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Chris Carter concieved MILLENNIUM to be like the feature films SILENCE OF THE LAMBS or SEVEN but on a weekly format. No aliens or govermental conspiracies like his X-FILES, but a psychological exploration of the nature of evil, of one man’s ability to see into the thought processes of the worst of humanity. Frank Black’s gift was not psychic in nature but an accute understanding of the heart of darkness: “I become capability. I become the horror — what we know we can become only in our heart of darkness. It’s my gift. It’s my curse. That’s why I retired.”
Lance Henrikson plays ex-FBI agent Frank Black perfectly, a man who was driven to a nervous breakdown when he realized he could no longer keep his family safe from the evil he was helping to fight. He only returns to work with the help of the Millennium Group and the support of his wife, who realises he can’t just sit back and wait for a happy ending. Their symbolic yellow house becomes not just a sanctuary but a fragile treasure in Franks mind, one that is threatened as his investigations continue. Evil takes a personal interest in him, tempting him to join it, and we see the toll his resistence to that evil has on his life.
The psychological aspect is what I believe Chris Carter was more interested in, however when Season two began, Carter was concentrating on the first X Files movie, and X-Files script writers/producers Morgan and Wong took over. They moved the focus away from the psychological aspect and more onto the supernatural and mythological nature of the Millennium Group itself. Over that one season (instead of five whch would have been perhaps more believable as a narrative) the Group turned from a noble company of ex-law enforcement agents (like the real life Academy Group) into a fractured quasi-religious cult, founded at the time of Christ’s crucifixtion, with an agenda to not just wait for an apocalypse but to pre-empt it. At the end of the second season, the writers introduced a deadly ebola-type virus, supposedly manufactured by the group itself, that apparently wipes out half the world, as well as claiming the life of Catherine Black. At the end of that season, the world has ended, and the writers effectively ruined the concept of the show.
Season three, back now in the hands of Chris Carter, starts off without making any real reference to the virus outbreak, with Frank back at the FBI, until a few episodes in when its revealed it was only a media panic over a few isolated cases rather than the real apocalypse. The SOUND OF SNOW is particulary a heart-wrenching episode where Frank finally deals with his wifes death. Try as they might, despite some exceptional work, the show never recovers from the loss of Megan Gallagher, the loss of the symbolism of the yellow house, or the change of Millennium Group to religious conspiracy cult. After the Group begin to execute those members deemed too dangerous to their agenda, Frank goes on the run with his daughter Jordan, driving down a road to an uncertain future. And the less said about the X-Files crossover episode the better.
These DVD’s are still a must buy for any fan of dramatic storytelling, because even the worst episodes are better than 90% of current tv. If you like CSI, 24 and all of the other procedural shows, you’ll like this. They’re excellently put together with commentaries and documentaries, which especially give you a palpable sense of the frustration felt by the actors and Chris Carter of how great the show could have been if allowed to grow at its own pace. Regardless of its faults, MILLENNIUM is a special show, the level of acting and production elevating it over any inconsistancies of series narrative.
These DVD’s have also helped bring the show to those who may have missed it, or were too young to have seen it first time round. Since the first episode was broadcast in 1996, it has garnered a growing and dedicated fan community, centered around the websites www.fourthhorsemanpress.com/Abyss and www.millennium-thisiswhoweare.net, and the forum at www.tiwwa.info.
Fans also created the first critically acclaimed Virtual Season, season 4, shortly after the shows cancellation, producing professionally written and formatted televsion scripts released on a weekly basis, in 1999. This was followed by Virtual Season 5 and and VS6 and 7 are concurrently in development, intending to give full closure to Frank Black’s story that we never had the chance to see in the show.
All this highlights just how powerful a show MILLENNIUM was, and how relevant it still is. As Lance Henrikson says in the DVD documentary, he feels the show was unfulfilled, a missed opportunity. MILLENNIUM still haunts him.
MILLENNIUM will haunt you long after you’ve watched it, but for all the right reasons.
Sorry about the bad pun. But seriously, Chris Carter hit a home run with this dark saga which at its core is about a tormented man trying to balance good and evil in both his own and others’ lives. Lance is brilliant in portraying our protagonist, Frank Black. I must say I do prefer Millenium to its predecessor, The X Files. (I know, I know, blasphemy) Something about the extremes to which this show goes; the severity of its ideology is mesmerizing. Each season does have its own flavor, but overall it is imperative to watch all the episodes in order to get the big picture (albeit a bleak one…)
Season One focuses more on the killer-of-the-week structure (that also came and went through The X Files as well). This season was the darkest and most horrific (and consequently quite the way to introduce viewers to the show!)
Season Two is my personal favorite. These episodes manage to lighten the load of terror and dread a wee bit and pose more metaphysical inquries; many of which find little or no resolve, leaving the viewer to construe their own meaning. (This is MUCH appreciated by engaged watchers…)
Season Three is like the big comedown after the high. While not bad by any means, it is a bit more tired (as is Frank at this point), relies a bit more on conventional crime solving (although the story arc does pervade this season as well.)
Overall, the series does not “end with a bang, but with a whimper”
People have mixed feelings on how the writers chose to end the dark drama, but the ambiguous nature of the show as a whole is what this reviewer thinks made it so special and welcoming to individual interpretations. Highly recommended to those willing to step into the dark closet and face some heavy issues.
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