The Sci Fi Channel has done us all a great service by airing this ad nauseum for the next two or three weeks, for, though its beginnings were slow, I can now see where the show is going ... and I'm addicted.
The actors, most of them from the indie film circuit or relative unknowns, are impressive, as are the effects. But the story, my God, is the most compelling thing I've seen on television in years.
The series is 20 hours long, covers about 60 years of U.S. history and "alien encounter" history and, like a grand old soap opera, follows four generations of three families - all of whom are having encounters with aliens that seem to link them for some, so far unrevealed, purpose.
The purpose, I'm learning, is the creation of the story's narrator, the great-granddaughter of an alien abductee from the first episode and also the granddaughter of the alien hybrid baby conceived in the first episode. But what do the aliens want with her? And what is she capable of? And why exactly is she, in some way, being planned by the aliens from the very first episode?
That's what's keeping me watching. This is great TV.
The actors, most of them from the indie film circuit or relative unknowns, are impressive, as are the effects. But the story, my God, is the most compelling thing I've seen on television in years.
The series is 20 hours long, covers about 60 years of U.S. history and "alien encounter" history and, like a grand old soap opera, follows four generations of three families - all of whom are having encounters with aliens that seem to link them for some, so far unrevealed, purpose.
The purpose, I'm learning, is the creation of the story's narrator, the great-granddaughter of an alien abductee from the first episode and also the granddaughter of the alien hybrid baby conceived in the first episode. But what do the aliens want with her? And what is she capable of? And why exactly is she, in some way, being planned by the aliens from the very first episode?
That's what's keeping me watching. This is great TV.