Secure Immaturity

Like I was saying in the last episode, I started watching Millennium, and it’s alright. The average episode involves some sort of serial killer killing people, and Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) using the psychic profiling to bring them to justice. I watched the amazing pilot episode, then gave up about six episodes in, because it’s not so fun watching a detective solve crimes with magic powers. Will told me to skip ahead to an episode called Force Majeure, and I’ll be damned if it isn’t really good.

The episode starts with a bizarre suicide on a college campus, and Frank and the Millennium Group are called in to help. Frank meets Dennis Hoffman (Brad Dourif) who did some work with the group in the past, but Peter Watts (Terry O’Quinn) sees him as a real nuisance. The show chugs along for a bit, until another suicide takes place, and the victims are the same girl.

From there the episode explores a present-day apocalypse cult with a dash of science fiction.
Frank gets well creeped out by the things going on around him, and he starts to question the Millennium Group’s motives for the first time. It’s good TV, and I got really hopeful about the series. Unfortunately, it slipped back into serial killer territory, albeit more interesting serial killers than before.

Millennium has a great TV series buried inside it, but it never clicked, possibly because the show didn’t trust the audience to keep more than one mystery in mind at the same time. This first season is worth a rental, as long as you skip the bad episodes, and Will’s guides are worth a look.

I think I’m going to give Season 2 a go.

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