Alcatraz

Post by **faceless** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:55 am

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Alcatraz
This is a new time-travel drama series. The basic idea is that 300 prisoners vanished from Alcatraz and they reappear in the modern era at random times (quite a handy detail for an ongoing series). It stars Sam Neill and the fat guy from Lost. That's not the only connection to Lost though - some of the music is very reminiscent and I'm guessing the production team had 'something like Lost' as their main bullet-point... but that's no bad thing.

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major.tom · Post by **major.tom** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:20 am

According to TV.com, this is another J.J. Abrams project. Based on how Lost turned out, I think I will give this a miss.

Post by **faceless** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:49 pm

well I watched the first two eps last night and it was pretty good.

Post by **Skylace** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:31 pm

That's good to hear Face. From the previews it seemed like a pretty crappy premise.

Post by **faceless** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:35 pm

yeah, the main idea is a bit naff, but the stories are ok.

Post by **Skylace** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:04 pm

That works for me. I don't expect all of my television to be amazing, but I do expect it to be entertaining!

Corvo · Post by **Corvo** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:04 am

its OK but I think im going to tire of the 'monster of the week' premise pretty soon.
it will be interesting to see if they play out the usual 'will they wont they' with the male and female leads. my guess is they wont which will be something different for a change.

Twirley · Post by **Twirley** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:33 pm

Got to say I wasn't overly impressed with the first few episodes but it's grown on me. They have set up some more mystery with the main characters and it looks like it has some space to develop. Hope they do a second series.