millennium (first watch through)

episode 1: im a good guesser, I'm able to get into the head of the killer, im intuitive

episode 18: okay, im a little magic

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 :/

and now im a liar, because here's some Talking Heads (!!!)

wish they leaned more into this uncanny and unnerving vibe, although season 2 is a strong start

frank black - shows up in town

everyone in town - you're our sheriff!

frank - no

townsfolk - okay sheriff

not loving this "big city fag who escaped to the country" and lives in a queered up log cabin

like, he's asking for fat free milk and cinnamon for his coffee in the small country diner (oblivious to how annoying he is) offering people diet drinks, lisping along to some old musical, talking in some *imagined* vernacular of An Irksome Gay

dont care for that

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

demon (literally) posessed child satanic panic lite episode

hell yeah

Frank is now seeing a *literal" demon everywhere

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

we got pieces of the true cross and esoteric Nazi's, a factional secular-religious schism in the millennium group, angels showing up, yee fucking haw

also, the most prophetic part of the show from an earlier episode (i hope shes doing well)

this has gotten so fun and weird, yess YESSS

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we went from having four *literal* devils telling anecdotes in a diner and the actual end of the world (by pandemic no less) at the last ep of season 2.... to the show just rolling back to being, more or less, a police procedural in s03

:/

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

exploitation 

trash episode, one or two good ideas nestled among the crap

I appreciate peter watts being shown to be an utter bastard though

james marsters was wasted

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)

there is a brief shot of some severed hands on the screen 

hot fbi on thinkpad action

there is a brief shot of some severed hands on the screen 

the latter end of season 3 is not great, would have been nice if they had spent more time making Emma a more developed character

it is funny that the series was cancelled *before* the millennium

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

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a woman who is blind gets attacked in her own house ... so runs and flips off the breakers killing all the lights - very cool she had a plan

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and thats that, also watched the 1 xfiles millenium episode, fine but kinda superfluous

well, it was certainly a show

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