HELIX
“PILOT/VECTOR”
“274”
ANALYSIS:
Dr. Alan Farragut (Billy Campbell)-
leader of the Centers
for Disease Control outbreak team- is called upon to investigate and control a
potential outbreak at the Artic Biosystems
research facility where his brother Peter is infected with this virus
which makes people usually aggressive and strong with the purpose of spreading
the black oily virus by fluid contact
HELIX is one part ANDROMEDA
STRAIN and one part RESIDENT
EVIL mixed in with the paranoia of John Carpenter’s THE THING. Ronal
D. Moore
has crafted a tense and creepy sci-fi thriller which will probably better work
as a mini-series because I think it would be best to resolve the storyline in
one to three seasons. Dr. Hiroshi
Hatake has to be the most mysterious of the characters while I like Dr. Sarah
Jordan’s spunk. The third episode (which
is available On Demand and online right now) ups the ante more as things at the
Artic bio research facility gets more out of control as they must contain the
infected while some will go to any measure to contain it from the world. I do
wonder which of the infected will try to
take the anti-virus cure which has a 75 percent fatality rate. I hope
they can keep the momentum up with
this show, but I do believe they should know when it is good to develop the
endgame for this series no matter how long people want HELIX to last. I
really hope they don’t ruin too much of a good thing, but the season preview
looks like it will get even more extreme than the first three episodes.
LOST GIRL
401- IN MEMORIAM
402- SLEEPIG
BEAUTY
SCHOOL
ANALYSIS:
In the first two episodes
of the fourth season of LOST GIRL,
the main character of Succubus named Bo plays a small part in the new season
and it may have something to do with Anna Silk’s pregnancy. The first
episode starts with her friends
having forgotten who she is and Dyson must then mount a search to rescue Bo
when her friend’s remember the memories they had lost. Meanwhile, Lauren
is in hiding as a
waitress.
With no Anna Silk to anchor
the center of the first two
episodes, the show falls right on the shoulders of the other characters mainly
Kenzi (Ksenia Solo), Dyson (Kris Holden-Reid, and Hale (K.C. Collins). It
works oddly enough since Kenzi and dyson
are such strong characters on the show- witness the tango dance between Kenzi
and Dyson during IN MEMORIAM (which is a hot scene and Ksenia looks very
attractive with that dress and hairdo).
I just hope they don’t draw out the storylines too much since the third
season was a mixed bag after the stellar first two seasons.
BEING HUMAN Season 4-
401- OLD DOG, NEW TRICKS
402- THAT TIME OF THE MONTH
I really do like the US
version of BEING HUMAN (despite never having watched the original UK
version), but it seems that the mythology and plotlines are getting more
convoluted (which I think SyFy should wrap up this show after five seasons).
It is fun to see ghost Sally’s powers
manifest more as they find a way to cure Josh of being a wolf except during the
full moon. Aidan (the vampire) finds
out his wife isn’t truly dead, but she has a secret of her own which I think it
will tear Adian up once he finds out what she has done (the same thing she is
whipping her back over and over as a way to punish herself for her sin).
BITTEN-
101- SUMMONS
102- PRODIGAL
ANALYSIS:
BITTEN is based on the
novel of the same name by Kelly
Armstrong. Elena Michaels (Laura
Vandervoort) is the lone female werewolf in existence. She has been living in
Toronto for a year as
she is desperate to escape the existence she never wanted, but she is drawn
back to Stonehaven- her pack’s ancestral territory- when a rogue werewolf is
found to be killing humans that might eventually endanger the pack. BITTEN
is a series that is played out like a
novel as it develops the various characters in the pack and it takes a look at
Elena’s life before she comes home to Stonehaven where her arrogant
ex-boyfriend still yearns for her (and please downplay that relationship
because the ex is getting on my nerves).
I just hope they don’t drag out the hunt for the mutt (the rogue
werewolf) too long and develop the plotlines to include other storylines as
they develop the mythology.
The first two episodes make
me want to read the novel which
came along with the press screener. I
think BITTEN has to be my favorite of this SyFy Monday line-up which I hope
holds me over until season 3 of CONTINUUM starts in April.
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