Archives for the ‘flashforward’ Category

January 14, 2010

Review: FlashForward 1.10 – “A561984″

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, flashforward

In timely Christmas fashion, A Christmas Carol plays several times in the show.  At one point, a poignant bit by Scrooge asks if this is what will be or what may be.
Benford and Noh go to Hong Kong despite Assistant Director Wedeck’s orders to stay in the US.  They are on the trail of the [...]

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November 24, 2009

Review: FlashForward 1.9 – “Believe”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, flashforward

Of the show’s remaining visions, Dr. Bryce Varley’s may be one of the more interesting.  He was on a pier with a loaded pistol under his chin when The Blackout hit.  Whatever he saw changed his outlook completely.  We know he went from Eeyore to Stuart Smalley in two minutes seventeen seconds and that he [...]

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November 23, 2009

Review: FlashForward 1.8 – “Playing Cards with Coyote”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, flashforward

Agent Gough’s tragic and vivid suicide and his note to Celia have been picked up by the media and the implications have spread like wildfire.  People are no longer accepting their flashforwards as scripture.  But as with most of the show, if we start out with absolute certainty that the future will come to pass, [...]

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November 18, 2009

Review: FlashForward 1.7 – “The Gift”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, flashforward

Another web site!
ABC loves ARGs.  Lost had a whole campaign based on the fictional story behind what happened to flight 815 and the Dharma Initiative.  Now FlashForward follows suit with several alternate reality sites, all of which lead back to the series portal on ABC.  We can now add www.alreadyghosts.com.
“The Gift” ends up being Agent [...]

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Review: FlashForward 1.6 “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, flashforward

…in which Agent Janis Hawk is miraculously saved.  She’s whisked to Olivia Benford’s hospital and saved by Olivia who I’m starting to guess is the only trauma surgeon in Los Angeles.
I’ve decided that Joseph Fiennes bugs the ever livin’ bejesus out of me.  I don’t know what it is, but the way he sucks in [...]

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November 17, 2009

Review: FlashForward 1.5 – “Gimme Some Truth”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, flashforward

Agents Noh, Vreede and Benford and Director Wedeck are coming out of a building and getting into the car that the valet has brought to them.  Mark’s on his phone telling someone Wedeck saved them all somehow.  As they start to drive off, a large black SUV hits them.  Several Asian men emerge from the [...]

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Review: FlashForward 1.4 – “Black Swan”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, flashforward

Remember that great reveal from last week?  Agents Benford and Hawk discovery an area of Somalia that reported dying birds and local villagers blacking out.  It linked Herr Geyer’s story and gave them something to work toward in finding out what caused the global blackout.
But forget all that because we have an FBI agency director [...]

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November 16, 2009

Review: FlashForward 1.3 – “137 Sekunden”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, flashforward

FlashForward has its own mysterious set of numbers; one hundred and thirty seven seconds.  The first episode and a half referenced it as two minutes and seventeen seconds, but in “137 Sekunden” (german for seconds) we’re focused primarily on 1, 3, 7.
A German mass murderer has contacted the FBI claiming he has information about why [...]

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October 21, 2009

Review: FlashForward 1.2 – “White to Play”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, flashforward

It’s the sign of a good show when despite the obvious nature of the storyline, the turns still surprise you.
FlashForward’s main story line is akin to being told the train you’re on will reach the end of the line and drop into an abyss in six hours.  It doesn’t matter what scenery you see along [...]

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September 27, 2009

Review: FlashForward 1.1 – “No More Good Days”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, flashforward

I think it’s the announcer. Yeah, I’m pretty sure ABC needs to replace their promotional voice talent because everything I see on ABC that isn’t Extreme Dancing with the Makeover Wives, sounds like Lost. It always sounds like everything depends on if I watch this show. Even the sitcoms seem as though [...]

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