“Wide Open”
“His children are far from safety; they shall be crushed at the gate without a rescuer.” — Job 5:4
What do you think? The disposition of the killer in this Millennium episode was pretty standard, not exactly up to snuff with show’s usual fare. The fact of the matter is this episode did a few things to set up and keep the creep level riding high while the viewer viewed it. And those things were everything revealed by Frank Black while the investigation was underway:
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“The Wild And The Innocent“
“O Lord, if there is a Lord
Save my soul, if I have a soul …” — Ernest Renan
This episode was unlike anything we’ve seen up to this point. Simple and direct, the tale unfolded for the first time on Millennium with a voice over — that of protagonist Maddie Haskel (Heather McComb, Prison Break, The Event) bearing her soul throughout.
Overall there was nothing that really stood out in this chapter. The story had a basic premise of longing and regret (Maddie’s hurt at her mother’s death and her want of her abandoned boy Angel) coupled with an abusive, overbearing and quick-tempered boyfriend Bobby (Jeffrey Donovan, Burn Notice) that ultimately ended in his death at Maddie’s hand of Maddie. So what made it different?
For me, it was the power of the voice over and the austere tone with which it was conveyed. It made me listen, engaged me into the story in a different manner than I was accustomed on Millennium. Hearing Maddie’s tale and watching the current events which would ultimately add to the telling gave it stark attraction despite the story’s basic premise.
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