[.ca] Millennium: Season 3

From Amazon.com:
In the third season of Millennium, we find Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) a widower and a single father who is completely disillusioned with the Millennium group and their evil intentions. Hell-bent on revenge, Frank rejoins the FBI, gets a new partner, Special Agent Emma Hollis (Klea Scott), and launches a personal crusade to dismantle and expose the Millennium Group. Interestingly, the visionary, quirky, X-Files mythos-like direction in which the producer-writer team of Glenn Morgan and James Wong took Millennium in season 2 didn't sit well with many fans. Now that a good chunk of the Earth's population had been wiped out by the Group's killer plague, which also claimed Frank's wife Catherine (Megan Gallagher), Chris Carter decided to take the helm once again and redirect season 3 back to the dark, apocalyptic crime-fighting genre in which it was intended. The mythos element is still present, but season 3 is a definite return to the look and feel of season 1 where most of the episodes are individual dark crime stories. The scripts in season 3 are consistently sharp (especially Ken Horton's and Chip Johannessen's), and the interesting, new dynamics introduced could have easily carried the show onward for many more seasons. Sadly, it was never meant to be. Like an apocalyptic metaphor, one of the best-written, best-produced, and most-influential shows of the 1990s would be canceled at the end of season 3, less than one year before the year 2000. Fans were left to wonder about the future of Frank Black, Jordan, and the success of his personal vendetta. Fortunately, The X-Files was still going strong at the time and fans got a bit of closure with The X-Files' season 7 tie-in episode "Millennium" (included on this DVD set). --Rob Bracco

The Time is Now....:
Frank Black criminal investigator for the FBI has the ability to get inside some of the worst people on earths heads to see the acts they commit. The Millenium group is a covert task froce trying to prevent the end of the world who enlist Frank as a member to further their cause. Season 2 ended with a viral outbreak that left alot of people dead including Franks wife. Frank beleives the group is responsible thus moving the storyline for season 3 at an incdebile speed. This show had no equal and being that Chris Carters other show on fox at the time was such a huge hit they really let him and his crew run deep with Millenium. Too bad it ended here but then again it did end strong so maybe it is all for the better. Today you will find numerous shows on tv that possess the same ideas as Millenium did then but NONE of them have the heart or balls like this show did. The addition of Emma Hollis as Franks partner here works way better than it has any right to. Franks daughter Jordan is a natural. The two seem like actual father and daughter. The scripts and pacing and atmosphere are unlike anything on tv then or now. This is top shelf viewing that never bows to mediocrity or wavers to soften the blows. This show has teeth and bites hard. I would like to see this on the big screen someday. Worked for Twin Peaks and more recently Firefly why not Millenium?!?! If you have never seen Millenium buy all 3 seasons turn out the lights and prepare yourself for a hell of a ride cause this show is as good as it gets...ever!

The Best Show Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:
I have all three seasons of Millennium and I have to say it is the best show ever. The acting is great and the plots are very beliveable. I recomend this show to everyone!!!!!!

Happiness is a Big Yellow House:
Created by Chris Carter, "Millennium" first appeared on television in 1996. It stars Lance Henriksen as Frank Black, a former FBI Agent who specialised in profiling serial killers. Frank retired from the Bureau after suffering a breakdown and moved from Washington to Seattle. His wife, Catherine, is a clinical social worker and the couple have a daughter called Jordan. Although no longer an agent, Frank hasn't completely severed his ties with the world in which he once worked. He has joined a team of ex-law enforcement agents known as the "Millennium Group". Little of the Group's history or structure is given away during the first season, though it does appear to be well connected and has access to a great deal of information. However, only very few members other than Frank are introduced - his main contact is Peter Watts, played by Terry O'Quinn. Nevertheless, those who work for the group appear to be happy to lend their expertise to whatever investigation requires their help. A cop in Seattle before he joined the Bureau, Frank occasionally works with Bob Bletcher - a friend and former colleague at the Seattle PD's homicide department. Given Frank's experience, the bulk of his work continues to focus on suspected serial killers. He also has a very useful gift that helps with investigations. When, for example, he visits a crime scene or views a body, Frank can see what the killer saw - something he describes as both a gift and a curse. However, he is not supposed to be a psychic, nor is his ability supposed to be a form of telepathy : he was simply a very gifted individual who could 'put himself' in the killer's head. In addition to the pilot and the twenty-one episodes of season one, there are some special features on the sixth disc. It's always nice when the extras aren't just out-takes, and the team behind Millennium have clearly put some effort in. There are commentaries on the pilot and another episode ("Gehenna"), though two of the documentaries (one on the making of season one and another on the creating the logo and the title sequence) were what I found most interesting. Given that Chris Carter also created "The X-Files", it's perhaps a little unusual that - for this season at least - there isn't anything unusual about the show ! Carter wanted to create a murder-mystery show with a cohesive idea, but without a paranormal thread. Unlike its more famous sibling, "Millennium" didn't feature alien autopsies, werewolves, liver-eating mutants or 'black oil' : with only occasional exceptions, the villains are human serial killers. (Although there simply isn't a bad episode, one of the strongest and saddest - "The Well-Worn Lock" is one of these exceptions. It sees the action largely driven by Catherine and features a criminal who isn't a killer). Carter has created a show that is dark, can be disturbing and has a real sense of evil. Highly recommended for fans of murders, mysteries and thrillers who aren't squeamish.