Quoting [email protected] ([email protected]): > Hey, have any of you seen the short-lived series "Threshold"? I got > it through Netflix as I was in search of new sci-fi. It stars Carla > Gugino and Brent Spiner, and has a fun premise of the aliens invading > by changing our DNA and behavior. Seems to be pretty well done. > Comments? One of the team is a dwarf, and they let him be smart > alecky, not politically correct, and expresses interest in shall we > say, flirting. It seems a good, balanced character presentation.
It was one of several promising 2005 genre series, and at least CBS allowed it to go to 13 episodes before killing it. I saw several of the eps on Sci-Fi in 2006 and was impressed; I started collecting them during a rebroadcast, there, in 2008, but the bastiches have ceased airing it (for now). ;-> If you're collecting lost-cause television series of that sort, I can also recommend: o "Invasion", 2005, ABC (1 season, 22 eps): Had the bad luck to start with a plotline about a hurricane hitting the South, aired right as Katrina hit. Good pilot, then gets slow, then becomes really good down the final stretch. o Eerie, Indiana, 1991-2 on NBC, then 1997-8 on Fox (1 season in two pieces, 19 episodes total). Aw, c'mon. You know you want to. It's out on DVD. o John Doe: 2002-3, Fox (1 season, 21 episodes): Man with no memory nonetheless finds that he has a freaky knowledge of nearly everything but himself, works as a PI, tries to investigate how he got that way. o Strange World, 1999, ABC (1 season, 13 episodes). Really good series about a military physician who investigates crimes involving medicine and science. Uniquely, the writers knew they were going to be cancelled, and so wrote a fairly satisfying complete story. o Crusade (of course!). Maybe: o Century City, 2004-5, CBS (9 episodes, cancelled after 4). Future law firm (year 2030) caught up in interesting bio/tech ethics legal cases. Re-aired only on NBC's "Universal HD" satellite digital video service, no DVDs, so it'll be hard to find. Pilot was at least interesting, but I missed the other 3. Much less frustrating, because he was able to complete the story arc: Straczynski's "Jeremiah", 2002-4, Showtime (2 seasons, 35 episodes), sometimes rebroadcast on Sci-Fi. And there's Eureka, which usually doesn't aim too high, but has excellent comic timing. Still in production (season 3). But what will they do without Ed Quinn as Nathan Stark? Also, I'd argue that "Dexter" is (a) at least close being genre and (b) utterly brilliant. Showtime, in production. 3 seasons in the can (36 episodes), 2 issued on DVD. Two more seasons, at least, to be produced. _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
