got lied to in the first episode, we got NIN and Rob Zombie
from then on out the diagetic music has been just terrible no-name stuff (as far as i can tell)
there's an episode that takes place at a club and given how people are dancing vs whats playing i can only assume a much worse song was substituted in post :/
the solution to this weird mystical evil dog problem is for The Gay's cabin to be burnt down and for him to leave
i am not joking
wtf
we've gone from frank dismissively saying "the killer thinks he's hearing messages from god" and saying he has no faith to a priest
to
frank literally seeing demons, talking to a ghost, sees a divine assassin cast lightning bolt on a devil(?) and is being drawn into a millenarian prophecy of the end times
exploitation
~2minute long sequence where a screaming woman's clothing is cut off and she is hosed + scrubbed down while restrained face down on a surgical table
honestly, I don't like these kind of episodes, this show does not go far enough to be harrowing/cathartic and fully dwell on & handle topics like SA (etc) but it does sometimes throw stuff in to shock?
not too surprising the writer was working on L&O:SVU at the same time
not a full throated condemnation, more like a exhausted sigh
Average Millennium Episode By Season:
S1 - Frank trails a serial killer while experiencing visions that might be intuition but could be ...something more
S2 - Criminals serving The Entity have hijacked a shipment of coca leaves to make cursed cocaine. Frank pairs with a Millennium group operative who may have participated in the lindbergh baby abduction on behalf of Alister Crowley. The End is Nigh
S3 - Frank & Emma investigate a murder with extra sinister overtones. Peter is also there.
SA
ah a false rape accusation, writers need to be Fucking Careful about putting that shit in a show so damn casually
nothing like a culture that believes women just lie about this for our own ends (its an oddly recurring motif in police procedurals. and like, cops do 100% rape people and get the fuck away with it)
wait, has there ever been a *man* who advanced a false accusation in any tv show? idk
anyway I do not care for this *one damn part*
handled poorly in the script imo
and now we have, I SWEAR TO GOD
Agent
Lanyard
(i double checked)
investigating the manhattan project in 1945
okay, we have a sarcophagus holding an irradiated corpse, visions of demons as the trinity test goes off
why could more of season 3 not be *this*
alas
side note:
american directors of a certain age regard the first nuclear tests in the US as a point of demonic reality fissure, an apocalypse-come-too-soon
(looking at you Lynch)
not the worst ending, I appreciate the arc which shows that OMG the secret society who are apocalyptic millenarian are maybe kinda EVIL???
I wish they'd leaned more into the occult and esoteric christian stuff more than the monster-of-the-week episodes, but of course this is just a symptom of the era in which it was made - you couldn't guarantee people would see every episode
I think i'll write a watch-skip guide at some point
exploitation
@MollyNoise yeah that L&O reveal aint shocking to me. a good rule is to not trust the artistic integrity or skill of anyone who has ever shared a room with Dick Wolf
strong start - crap ending :/