ORBzine - Millennium TV Review
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Millennium [Season 1, Episode 1]
Pilot
Shown 25 Oct 96
Shown 11th August 2006 [Saturday]
Frank Black [Lance Hendricksen - Aliens ] is a Profiler who works with a group of ex-cops called the Millennium Group.
Frank help his local cops, the Seattle PD, locate a serial killer.
Terry O'Quinn [ Lost ] co-stars as one of the Millennium Men.
2. 1- 2 4C01 1 Nov 96 Gehenna 3. 1- 3 4C02 8 Nov 96 Dead Letters 4. 1- 4 4C04 15 Nov 96 The Judge 5. 1- 5 4C05 22 Nov 96 522666 6. 1- 6 4C03 29 Nov 96 Kingdom Come 7. 1- 7 4C06 6 Dec 96 Blood Relatives
Millennium [Season 1, Episode 8]
The Well-Worn Lock
Shown 20 Dec 96
Shown 15th October 2001 - Monday
Frank Black's wife works as Victim Support in Seattle, and this time she has to deal with a 33-year-old woman who claims she has been sexually abused by her father for 20 years. The father is a respectable businessman, with contacts at City Hall.
The allegations of incest make for a complicated storyline: she's my sister, she's my daughter, she's my sister AND my daughter! Frank Black gets a couple of obligatory scenes, since he's the star of the show, but most of the episode is weepy victim/survivor stuff. Since Chris Carter wrote this episode himself, it must have been a personal decision for him to run this story. It certainly has nothing to offer as part of this series.
Millennium [Season 1, Episode 9]
Wide Open
Shown 3 Jan 97
Shown 9th July 2007 [Monday]
A man breaks into a family's home, kills the parents and locks up their little girl. Frank Black investigates, while his wife does the Victim Support thing with the traumatised young girl.
Roger R. Cross [ First Wave ] is a police patrolman.
Millennium [Season 1, Episode 10]
The Wild and the Innocent
Shown 10 Jan 9
Shown 18th October 2001 - Thursday
Yet another dreary depressing child-abuse story. This time the twenty-ish victim gets her redneck boyfriend to help her abduct the abuser, her stepfather, and find her kidnapped son. However, the boyfriend is a cop-killing maniac ...
11. 1-11 4C09 24 Jan 97 Weeds
Millennium [Season 1, Episode 12]
Loin Like a Hunting Flame
Shown 31 Jan 97
Shown 22nd October 2001 - Monday
Someone in Boulder, Colorado, is drugging couples, then photographing them having sex ... and murdering them. Frank Black and a female associate are called in to help, while the redneck detective in charge intimidates the witnesses.
13. 1-13 4C12 7 Feb 97 Force Majeure
Millennium [Season 1, Episode 14]
The Thin White Line
Shown 14 Feb 97
Shown 12th November 2001 - Monday
A copycat serial killer is stalking the city. Frank Black visits his nemesis, the original killer, currently in Hannibal Lecter-style incarceration.
15. 1-15 4C14 21 Feb 97 Sacrament 16. 1-16 4C16 21 Mar 97 Covenant
Millennium [Season 1, Episode 17]
Walkabout
Shown 28 Mar 97
Shown 30th October 2001 - Tuesday
Frank and the Millennium Group investigate an illegal drugs test. Frank has vague memories of the testing session, which went badly wrong and possibly killed one of the patients.
18. 1-18 4C17 18 Apr 97 Lamentation (1)
Millennium [Season 1, Episode 19]
Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions (2)
Shown 25 Apr 97
Shown 1st November 2001 - Thursday
A serial killer, a Hannibal Lecter carbon-copy who Frank Black captured, disappears from a hospital ward. Black returns to the FBI Behaviour Sciences Unit. However, the villain decides to target Frank's family. A regular character is killed off.
Millennium [Season 1, Episode 20]
Broken World
Shown 2 May 97
Shown 5th November 2001 - Monday
A Serial Killer is doing evil deeds in a horse-rearing valley. Ingrid Kavelaars pops up in the pre-credits sequence as a woman who disturbs the man during his grisly work ...
Millennium [Season 1, Episode 21]
Maranatha
Shown 9 May 97
Shown 6th November 2001 - Tuesday
The episode starts in a scene reminiscent of Metropolis - it is Chernobyl ... just before the meltdown.
We move forward over a decade, and a serial killer is wiping out Russians living in Brooklyn. Bill Nunn [Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead] plays the detective who investigates the case. Brian Downey [ Lexx ] appears as the coroner.
Millennium [Season 1, Episode 22]
Paper Dove (1)
Shown 16 May 97
Shown 8th November 2001 - Thursday
Frank Black, his wife and kid all head off to Arlington, Virginia, for a family get-together with the in-laws. As always in this kind of show, a holiday is an excuse for a coincidence that leads to a murder-mystery. Yes, Frank stumbles across yet another serial killer.
Frank profiles a man who is accused of killing his own wife. The man does not fit Frank's profile for such a crime, and it is frighteningly realistic to see how an innocent man could be jailed [on minimal evidence] for a crime he did not commit.
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 1]
The Beginning and the End (2)
Shown 19 Sep 97
Shown 12th August 2007 - Thursday
The Polaroid Man [Doug Hutchison - Green Mile ] abducts Frank Black's wife, and starts playing mind-games with her.
It's something to do with comets and meteors. Very astrological ...
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 2]
Beware of the Dog
Shown 26 Sep 97
Shown th August 2007 [Thursday]
People in a small town are attacked by a pack of wild dogs. Frank and the Millennium Group investigate.
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 3]
Sense and Antisense
Shown 3 Oct 97
Shown th August 2007 [Thursday]
Frank hunts for a man who is apparently infected with a highly contagious virus.
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 4]
Monster
Shown 17 Oct 97
Shown th August 2007 [Thursday]
Frank Black and Kirsten Cloke investigate child-abuse at a day-care centre.
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 5]
A Single Blade of Grass
Shown 24 Oct 97
Shown 30th August 2007 [Thursday]
An archaeological excavation at a ancient Native American burial ground uncovers a fresh corpse. Frank Black investigates, and uncovers secret religious rituals.
Frank's visions seem to fit into the Native American religion and their belief in another world. Unfortunately, they also think he is part of their prophecy!
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 6]
The Curse of Frank Black
Shown 31 Oct 97
Shown 30th August 2007 [Thursday]
Frank has flashbacks and visions concerning a man who died in Frank's childhood. Dean Winters [Oz] plays the ghost.
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 7]
19:19
Shown 7 Nov 97
Shown th September 2007 [Thursday]
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 8]
The Hand of Saint Sebastian
Shown 14 Nov 97
Shown th September 2007 [Thursday]
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 9]
Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense
Shown 21 Nov 97
Shown August 2006 [Saturday]
This features a wonderful parody of Scientology. This has got to be the best episode ever!
Frank Black and the Millennium group try to solve a murder. Along for the ride is Jose Chung, hack SciFi writer. He's being targetted himself.
Chung's fictionalised version of Frank is a wonderful parody of the show.
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 10]
Midnight of the Century
Shown 19 Dec 97
Shown th August 2006 [Saturday]
33. 2-11 5C10 9 Jan 98 Goodbye, Charlie 34. 2-12 5C12 23 Jan 98 Luminary 35. 2-13 5C13 6 Feb 98 The Mikado 36. 2-14 5C15 27 Feb 98 The Pest House 37. 2-15 5C14 6 Mar 98 Owls (1) 38. 2-16 5C16 13 Mar 98 Roosters (2) 39. 2-17 5C17 20 Mar 98 Siren
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 18]
In Arcadia Ego
Shown 3 Apr 98
Shown th August 2006 [Saturday]
Lesbian convict Missy Crider and her bull-dyke cellmate escape from a very insecure prison. Frank has to help Ed Lauter track them down.
It turns out that Missy is mysteriously pregnant, and secretly involved with a cult of the Virgin Mary.
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 19]
Anamnesis
Shown 17 Apr 98
Shown th August 2006 [Saturday]
Frank's wife is called in as a school counsellor. Some schoolgirls have formed a non-Coven, the opposite of The Craft . They are Xian fundamentalists, who believe they are chosen by the Virgin Mary. A Cult is involved, possibly linked to the previous ep.
Kristen Cloke represents the Millennium Group in the investigation.
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 20]
A Room with No View
Shown 24 Apr 98
Shown th August 2006 [Saturday]
Millennium [Season 2, Episode 21]
Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me
Shown 1 May 98
This is unbelievable - an ep that's original and good! 4 demons [great casting and makeup] meet in a diner to talk over past jobs. Frank Black has cameos in all their stories!
1] A serial killer tries to break the existing record.
2] Creating suicidal depression with minor irritations.
3] Mass Damnation: The censor's tale. The demon tries to drive him insane with an Ally McBeal parody, featuring a demon baby. Apparently insane people lose their souls! The censor falls into the depressed man's way of life - attending a strip-club (which is then censored for the viewing public). We also get parodies of X-Files and alien autopsy - the result is a film entitled When Humans attack!
4] stripper [suicide's a sin???]
44. 2-22 5C22 8 May 98 The Fourth Horseman (1) 45. 2-23 5C23 15 May 98 The Time is Now (2)
46. 3- 1 3ABC01 2 Oct 98 The Innocents (1) 47. 3- 2 3ABC02 9 Oct 98 Exegesis (2) 48. 3- 3 3ABC03 16 Oct 98 TEOTWAWKI 49. 3- 4 3ABC04 23 Oct 98 Closure
Millennium [Season 3, Episode 5]
...Thirteen Years Later
Shown 30 Oct 98
Shown 11th April 2007 [wednesday]
Frank is now working with a female FBI Agent [the black chick from Intelligence]. This adds a real element of jeopardy: we know Frank will survive, but she might easily become a secrificial lamb.
One of Frank's early cases is being made into a cheesy slasher flick. However, a serial killer is bumping off the cast and crew, in ways that resemble scenes from famous slasher films! In a sense this quite resembles Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense ...
Millennium [Season 3, Episode 6]
Skull and Bones
Shown 6 Nov 98
Shown 11th April 2007 [wednesday]
A mass grave is uncovered. Frank suspects a sinister coverup is going on - the FBI and the Millennium Group could be involved!
This is a very downbeat ep, even for this show. The conspiracy theme is very X-Files , and it's good to see the older show's ethos being evoked again.
Millennium [Season 3, Episode 7]
Through a Glass, Darkly
Shown 13 Nov 98
A child-killer is paroled from jail ... and soon after, a young girl is abducted. The crime seems identical to the first one.
Frank and his partner must find the girl before it's too late. Unfortunately, there's an outbreak of vigilantism.
53. 3- 8 3ABC09 11 Dec 98 Human Essence 54. 3- 9 3ABC08 18 Dec 98 Omerta
Millennium [Season 3, Episode 10]
Borrowed Time
Shown 15 Jan 99
People start drowning on solid land. Frank's daughter is one of the victims. Luckily his FBI skills save her.
Frank discovers that Eric Mabius [Ugly Betty] was near all the victims when they drowned.
56. 3-11 3ABC11 22 Jan 99 Collateral Damage
Millennium [Season 3, Episode 12]
The Sound of Snow
Shown 5 Feb 99
People start dying, apparently of natural causes. Frank discovers that the victims all listened to supposedly blank tapes. Not unlike the idea of the cursed tape in Ringu.
Millennium [Season 3, Episode 13]
Antipas
Shown 12 Feb 99
Frank and Emma investigate a woman named Lucy Butler, who appears to have demonic powers.
59. 3-14 3ABC14 19 Feb 99 Matryoshka
Millennium [Season 3, Episode 15]
Forcing the End
Shown 19 Mar 99
A Jewish group kidnap a pregnant woman. Their plan is to raise the child as their Messiah.
Guest stars include Juliet Landau and Andreas Katsulas [ Babylon 5 ]
61. 3-16 3ABC16 9 Apr 99 Saturn Dreaming of Mercury
Millennium [Season 3, Episode 17]
Darwin's Eye
Shown 16 Apr 99
A female inmate escapes from a mental hospital, and takes a young Deputy hostage.
Frank investigates a series of brutal murders the young woman is supposed to have committed.
Millennium [Season 3, Episode 18]
Bardo Thodol
Shown 23 Apr 99
Emma investigates an illegal smuggling operation. Someone's shipping in hands from China. Human, caucasian hands ... which are still growing!
Frank's investigations take him to a Chinese Monk [James Hong - Big Trouble in Little China ]! Unfortunately, the Millennium Group's staff assassin is also on the trail.
64. 3-19 3ABC19 30 Apr 99 Seven and One 65. 3-20 3ABC20 7 May 99 Nostalgia 66. 3-21 3ABC21 14 May 99 Via Dolorosa (1) 67. 3-22 3ABC22 21 May 99 Goodbye to All That (2)