I finally caught the first 3 episodes of Alcatraz on Fox. I have to say that it is interesting and written well enough to be a wee bit engaging. Even with its flaws.
TV Review:
Alcatraz comes to us from Elizabeth Sarnoff (Lost, Deadwood), Steven Lilien (Kyle XY), Bryan Wynbrandt (Kyle XY) and is executive produced by J.J. Abrams.
The cast includes Sarah Jones (Sons of Anarchy), Jorge Garcia (Lost), Jonny Coyne, Parminder Nagra (ER) & Sam Neill.
The premise of Alcatraz is that back on March 20th, 1963, everyone on the island disappeared. Now, here in 2012, the folks who disappeared seem to be returning. And that’s not good.
The interesting thing is that there’s an organization that has already been set up and expecting the inmates to be returning. Their advanced office of equipment is set up under the prison and is run by Emerson Hauser (Neill). Lucy Banerjee (Nagra) is his partner and Jones plays detective Madsen who gets herself recruited to their team. She tags a comic book writer to help her, who also happens to be an expert on Alcatraz history (Garcia).
So each case of the week has them hunting down the newest perp who has reappeared and doing what they do best, is evil stuff. We watch the perp do his deed here in the present, but we also get flashbacks to their lives back in the 60′s. It’s some filler, background material giving us their motivation, if there’s motivation to be understood.
Here’s the gang at Comic-Con 2011, meeting, greeting and signing things fans brought by…
And once they do catch their man, Hauser transports them to a new version of Alcatraz, somewhere off in the woods. This is where they’re putting all the inmates they reclaim.
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