So, with the two-hour Season One finale of Alcatraz on Fox last night, I'm still not sure if this new series is worth watching. The fact that the single best part of every episode is Sam Neill's (Hauser's) dead-pan, chilling voice-over intro is probably not the best sign. Still -
It was a good to see that the warden, as I thought, was the bad guy - he's a suitably creepy villain. The addition of the guy who plays SecNav on NCIS as the warden's superior was a good touch. So is the silver colloidal blood as elixir, which brings back Lucy, and I suspect will do the same for Rebecca if the series jumps through time and lands in the Fall 2012 line-up.
But it needs to do more than just spin out a series of mostly unrelated stories of 1963 inmates finding themselves in 2012. The stories on their are own are just not that compelling. And although Hauser, Doc, and Rebecca as a team are ok, and better now that Lucy is back, the best part of the series still resides in the way that the time shift took place, and for what purpose.
If Alcatraz returns, I'll certainly start watching it in hope of that deeper, more fascinating tale making the front page.
See also Trying to Like Alcatraz ... Alcatraz 1.11: Lucy, Lucy, Lucy
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The Plot to Save Socrates
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It was a good to see that the warden, as I thought, was the bad guy - he's a suitably creepy villain. The addition of the guy who plays SecNav on NCIS as the warden's superior was a good touch. So is the silver colloidal blood as elixir, which brings back Lucy, and I suspect will do the same for Rebecca if the series jumps through time and lands in the Fall 2012 line-up.
But it needs to do more than just spin out a series of mostly unrelated stories of 1963 inmates finding themselves in 2012. The stories on their are own are just not that compelling. And although Hauser, Doc, and Rebecca as a team are ok, and better now that Lucy is back, the best part of the series still resides in the way that the time shift took place, and for what purpose.
If Alcatraz returns, I'll certainly start watching it in hope of that deeper, more fascinating tale making the front page.
See also Trying to Like Alcatraz ... Alcatraz 1.11: Lucy, Lucy, Lucy
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The Plot to Save Socrates
"a Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News
"Sierra Waters is sexy as hell" - curled up with a good book
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I want to concur with your comments on this series. Although, alone most of the episodes are interesting whodunits, they don't offer fare that we can not get elsewhere on TV almost on a nightly basis. For this reason alone, I wonder if the series will survive.
Additionally, they seem to have killed one of their protagonists in this last episode, haven't they?
OF course they gave us a lot of answers, but not nearly enough. Like with Fringe, and Walter's crazy experiments, is it possible that the Warden and his boss were performing some sort of Government sanctioned or at least Government approved experiments on the inmates at Alcatraz?
And how come not even Lucy remembers how she was propelled forward in time? This and many other questions the writers will have to start answering if they expect this show to survive.
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