Remember last episode? Remember when there was apparently no where for the regular cast to go? There was the idea that Simon became the lead character in the show, that his life was much more important and interesting than the rest of the cast. He caused the blackout. He and Lloyd worked together to create [...]
Archives for the ‘flashforward’ Category
April 13, 2010
Review: FlashForward 1.13 “Blowback”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,Reviews and Recaps,flashforward
March 24, 2010
Review: FlashForward 1.11&12 “Revelation Zero”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,Reviews and Recaps,flashforward
FlashForward returns from it’s winter hiatus with a two parter in two hours. After a quick recap of recent events, including Mark Benford’s probation from the bureau, we pick up with a window washer in LA (Gil Bellows) blacking out while on his rig high up on a skyscrapper. He falls but is miraculously saved [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]