I am completely baffled by all the favourable reviews for Millennium. I started watching it because I love the X-Files and it's made by the same creators, but I don't know how the same people managed to mess up so badly. I completely understand why critics panned it and why it's mostly forgotten. It's not good television.
At its core, Millennium is little more than yet another police procedural drama, and a boring one at that. Almost nothing happens in any episode. The writing is awful and none of the main cast are fleshed out properly. I couldn't even tell you any of their names or anything about them besides Frank.
One thing that's good about the X-Files is how well it's aged. Despite being made in the 90s, it still stands up today, and in some episodes, you could even believe you are watching a modern show. The scripts are tight, well-written, and well-directed, with good pacing. Millennium is the exact opposite. Despite being made in the 90s, it feels like a show from the 70s. The production values are low, acting wooden, lighting bad, dialogue difficult to hear, and the scripts are just mindless drivel. The criminals are never fleshed out or their motives revealed.
In a typical episode of Millennium, barely anything happens for 40 minutes, there is no suspense, and you don't care what happens to anyone since the characters are hollow and nobody seems to have any real motivations for what they are doing. Then in the last 5 minutes, they find the killer and reveal nothing about him, or maybe they don't even find him, he just dies for some reason, and it's unresolved.
The actress playing Frank's wife cannot act very well. In every scene she tries to do brooding or worried looks, but ends up over-acting. It feels like watching a 70s soap opera, and I half expect to hear a studio audience.
I forced myself to watch this show because I like the X-Files, but I could not continue. It's a waste of time. I had hoped to at least reach season 2, because I heard that's when it has a change of tone and a story arc about a conspiracy, but I couldn't get through season 1.
Millennium is a mediocre, boring show in which very little happens. I would say it's a product of its time, but there were plenty of good shows from the 90s, it just seems that Millennium was made in the style of much older shows.
At its core, Millennium is little more than yet another police procedural drama, and a boring one at that. Almost nothing happens in any episode. The writing is awful and none of the main cast are fleshed out properly. I couldn't even tell you any of their names or anything about them besides Frank.
One thing that's good about the X-Files is how well it's aged. Despite being made in the 90s, it still stands up today, and in some episodes, you could even believe you are watching a modern show. The scripts are tight, well-written, and well-directed, with good pacing. Millennium is the exact opposite. Despite being made in the 90s, it feels like a show from the 70s. The production values are low, acting wooden, lighting bad, dialogue difficult to hear, and the scripts are just mindless drivel. The criminals are never fleshed out or their motives revealed.
In a typical episode of Millennium, barely anything happens for 40 minutes, there is no suspense, and you don't care what happens to anyone since the characters are hollow and nobody seems to have any real motivations for what they are doing. Then in the last 5 minutes, they find the killer and reveal nothing about him, or maybe they don't even find him, he just dies for some reason, and it's unresolved.
The actress playing Frank's wife cannot act very well. In every scene she tries to do brooding or worried looks, but ends up over-acting. It feels like watching a 70s soap opera, and I half expect to hear a studio audience.
I forced myself to watch this show because I like the X-Files, but I could not continue. It's a waste of time. I had hoped to at least reach season 2, because I heard that's when it has a change of tone and a story arc about a conspiracy, but I couldn't get through season 1.
Millennium is a mediocre, boring show in which very little happens. I would say it's a product of its time, but there were plenty of good shows from the 90s, it just seems that Millennium was made in the style of much older shows.