Leslie Bohem continues the UFO narrative in the ‘Steven Spielberg presents’ mini-series, Taken. This episode marks the halfway point of the show, and first aired on 6 December, 2002. The narrative moves into the 1980s. Eric Crawford (Andy Powers) has cemented his role as the head of the government’s UFO program, based out at Groom…
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Smallville (2001) – Pilot, and Metamorphosis
The Superman mythos got the teen drama remix with Smallville. Perfectly cast and solidly scripted, the series ran for ten seasons, and while I did enjoy it, I never got past season five originally. We’re going to fix that this time out. The show launched with its Pilot on 16 October, 2001. Written by Alfred…
Final Destination (2000) – James Wong
Death doesn’t like to be cheated, especially by twenty-somethings playing teenagers as we see in the first installment in the multi-film series christened Final Destination. Written by X-files alumus James Wong and Glen Morgan alongside Jeffrey Reddick from a story developed by Reddick, the horror thriller is fairly basic, with a number of familiar faces….
The X-Files (1999) – Hungry, and Millennium
Vince Gilligan delivers the first monster-of-the-week episode of the seventh season with Hungry, an episode that first aired on 21 November, 1999. Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) are investigating a strange murder in California, a body is recovered with no brain matter, and a strange hole that Mulder thinks may have been a…
The Mind Reels 