User Reviews

3 episodes in (keeping in mind the pilot was 2 hours) and this show has maked quite a few large strides. The character development has been great. In a short amount of time they have gotten me to connect with the characters. Its the flaws that they have that sell them to the audience. This IS A SCI-FI show, so ya, its goofy and you gotta be able to suspend your belief, but should you be able to do that its a show that can be easily enjoyed.

I expect big things out of this series as time goes on, but only that same time will tell.

If you haven't seen this show, i would highly recommend it. It comes with the fun police work of Law and Order, the quirky wit similar to that of a Joss Whedon series all mixed up with Sci-Fi.

In a previous review your humble reviewer gave the true origins of this series, namely a reboot of one of Canada's first ever home grown series, Friday the 13th, a show about cursed objects.

I am flagging this episode because it contains a geographical trope I have never encountered before.

Namely, while shooting Canada "for" the US (a trick I have seen a thousand times before) the producers elected to shoot in Unionville Ontario and wrote the script so the action takes place in Unionville Colorado.

Yes, there really is a Unionville Colorado.

Maybe this is not a big deal to you but for the accountants who run the Canadian film industry this was a revelation.

1. Pick a Canadian location that is cheap and ready.

2. Alter the script so that you are allegedly in a town of the SAME NAME in the US.

3. This saves a fortune for the continuity editor. If any nameplate accidentally gets in frame, it will say "Unionville." See the trick? And the money keeps rolling in.

Is SyFy known for it's Special Effects? No. It's Campiness? Hell yeah! This show rolls through some excellent dialogue, specifically the interaction between Pete and Myka. It's fun, it's entertaining, it's a guilty little pleasure on the TV. Plus, I love that basically anyone famous from throughout history can be thrown in the mix as something close to them now possesses part of their chi/ka/soul/electric body magnetism/whatever that helped make them noteworthy. You watch this show and immediately afterward (sometimes during) you want to Google the person who made the artifact. I love a little mental teaser. All the actors are good (although I'm slightly unclear on Leena's point in being. She runs the local B&B... uh, and?) and Artie particularly plays his role to the utmost.

In the words of Pete after they find the artifact, "I know! Freaky, right? This stuff is always Freaky!" So fun it's lovable.

I have to admit I found the offending object in this episode to be more than a bit far-fetched. I don't want to reveal what it is here, but it is ridiculous. Pete and Myka are sent to Colorado (everywhere they go is starting to look the same, by the way) to investigate a bunch of people going off the deep end. A nun decides she can fly and jumps off a roof. An old lady gets rowdy with a newspaper honor box. A young musician smashes his violin to pieces. And so on. Myka notices folks are losing their balance just before each outburst, and then she is "infected" so that she starts taking swings at Pete and other males in town. The daring duo have a very tough time trying to connect all of the people involved to some object in town. The show is still fun, and there remains an element of suspense, but this show isn't going the way I personally thought it would. It is not working on the same level as the old Friday THE 13TH TV series, which also dealt with sinister objects to be retrieved by a young guy and gal. Still, the ongoing monkey business between the bickering Bickersons (Pete and Myka) is fun to watch, and the odd disturbances happening back at the warehouse, involving a mysterious hacker, add to the suspense. But I suspect this show will be gone sooner rather than later. Sad.

We have now seen the pilot and two episodes of this SciFi/Syfy/sigh…fie Channel series. As I suspected, it is wearing thin.

The two Secret Service agents are just plain dumb. There is no justification—not even for the sake of humor—for their antics. They bicker like young girls playing with dolls, and their bickering puts them in real danger. Fox Mulder and Dana Scully disagreed, but it never undermined their professionalism. I can't recall any investigative team in any successful series that was this discordant. We're getting into Laurel and Hardy territory here.

As for the humor, that's right out of the Three Stooges. They have built into the script a justification for the basest form of slapstick. I tuned into this episode just as ECW Wrestling was ending, and I barely recognized the transition.

I have given Warehouse 13 the college try, but I suspect that it will get harder and harder to remember to watch this show. One day I will discover that I have forgotten it entirely and realize I have no regrets.