Wow. In season 2, James Wong and Glen Morgan took over after Chris Carter as showrunners. And wow, have they done a good job in this opening episode.
They actually made good sense out of how someone could be kidnapped in an airport terminal, helping to alleviate one of the problems i had with the previous season finale.
Cool intro of the millenium group members with those ominous beats.
Clearer use and look of Frank's psychic ability.
Good deepening of Peter's character.
I liked that this plot thread was resolved already. I feel like Chris Carter would have strung it along and have Catherine kidnapped for part or most of the season.
But i feel the villain was unexplored and didn't make much sense, nor his motivation. It's something to do with showing Frank about the insidious nature of the millennium group? Somehow? And something about a harmonic convergence in the year 2000?
And that's all we're given about this villain and his motivation. It's pretty much nothing, and that's bad.
It doesn't line up with the previous characterization of the character. They have changed him deliberately to resolve this plot thread immediately, and to cast a light on the mysterious nature of the millenium group and the later "harmonic convergence/religious stuff" in the year 2000. It's all interesting, but in setting this stuff up, they forget to develop or characterize much the villain.
He was just an ordinary guy or something and then got obsessed with astrology and taking photos and Frank some reason/because the milennium group is interested in him. So then the guy stalked Frank and tormented him with photos of his family, even though he knew the milennium group knew about this. Then he kidnaps Catherine to... What? Further mess with Frank for reasons not established? No, something about the milennium group... Which Frank is a newer member of/candidate to go higher up the ranks? But since the group is interested in him then so was this villain. Ehhh it's all messy and muddled.
Speaking of the milennium group, in the previous season they were only established as a group of ex-law enforcement types who were a consulting agency for law enforcement. The group was comprised of many talented people, and there was growing belief among members concerning some of the religious stuff that was happening last season. That was pretty much it for the group, we didn't see many members apart from Peter. We only saw a few members, and none of them were really developed.
With this episode however, it is revealed that they are a more mysterious organization than we thought, and they also have more power than we thought. And it seems like with Frank being a member for a while, and having his ability and successful cases, he is rising or going to rise further up the ranks in order to gain more access to the group and answers as to what's going on.
I like it. It gives more weight and importance and mystery to the group, and sets up answers for later. The group has been revealed to be much grander in scope.
I like how the group covered for him at the end.
I like how Frank brutally killed the villain. It's dark.
I don't like how they are breaking the family up at the end. It's forced. It's understandable how Catherine would (later) think about the danger following Frank or the dangerous business he's involved in, but families usually stick together in those circumstances.
Review by Caner AydınBlockedParentSpoilers2021-01-24T10:48:06Z
Normally, i watch series season by season. I watch lots of series, so it takes long time to come back again to series i watched.
I would not come season 2 of this series for a long time but i needed to choose fast after finishing office (UK) series on 23121.
I really like season 1.
I am curious about season 2 and what happened to Catherine and other interesting things like bad unnatural forces.
I will edit here watching some episodes i hope. I will copy this to episode 1 review also.
AFTER FINISHING EPISODE
I could not understand why group did not give photo of the killer after he kidnapped catherine. They could recognize him and could save catherine.
And i think we first time saw the leader, near pete. Said " we should have done very long ago". He meant to kill that killer.
Those are mysterous. According to that, millennium is bigger and deeper than just a consultant company. They have strong roots and maybe dark roots. I am suspicious about it now.
Frank first time sensed wrong, he sensed wrong house.
And first time used violence as i remember.
If the killer was so smart, why did he let himself die? He could kill easily frank by trapping or ambushing. I think he wanted to be killed but i dont know why.
And in last episode, he gave the photo to woods man to kill catherine at first. Those can be nonsense of scenario or we will see later about it.