Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

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Synopsis:



Episode 2 of 13

Good start after episode 1. They set up an interesting premise and left me as a viewer wanting to know more.

Again, if you missed the Pilot last week it's online:

http://www.hulu.com/persons-unknown-tv

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I was left interested after the pilot, so I'll continue watching.

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Just finished watching the first ep and I really liked it. Reminded me of a Stephen King miniseries, which I'm a sucker for. It seems like something that should run about six episodes, so we'll see how well it will stretch out over thirteen.

Does anyone else think the lead guy is a dead ringer for Christian Bale?

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We loved the premiere. Looking forward to this and coming episodes!

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Same here. I'll be tuning in tonight (even though I was not completely sold on the pilot).

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In for another one.

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I DVR'd it and will catch it this weekend. For those that watched, how was it?

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I guess most people here are like me -- DVR'd it and will get to it later this week.

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I haven't watched this weeks ep. yet but did notice NBC is skipping next weeks ep. for some fireworks show and they haven't scheduled a replay for it throughout the week either. The show will resume for me on ep. 4. And they wonder why we turn to "other means" to get our shows.

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It was pretty much like the Pilot. I liked it, but some might be getting frustrated with it.

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Is that just your local affiliate? NBC.com says it is airing on the 21st as planned.
http://www.nbc.com/schedule/

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

Yep, just my local affiliate. My Tivo is reporting some 3 hour Target fireworks special for next Monday from 8-11pm eastern.

I did notice Comcast has this On Demand so hopefully I'll be able to just watch it there shortly after it airs.

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Usually WDIV rebroadcasts at like 3AM when they preempt prime time. I've searched listings and haven't found it, so I sent them an e-mail today. No response yet.

Edit: No response to my e-mail but TitanTV now shows it 2-3 AM, Wed., June 23.

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Watched this episode tonight.

I liked it. It took more of a "Twilight Zone" spin, especially with the invisible force field surrounding the town and when the group tried escaping and ended up back in the town again. I can see how this series was originally developed for the SyFy Channel.

I knew the Night Manager was full of shit and wasn't a victim like them. Obviously now they aren't going to get any answers from him.

Did those people in the group seriously believe that Moira was a Psychiatrist?

I'm not sure I quite get what transpired with the reporter. He tries getting some information about Janet and then someone involved with the people behind the kidnapping steals it from him? Well, at least he gets laid.

I want to know what's up with this whacked town. I'm in untiil the series finale.

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She has me suspicious...first, she was the only one who didn't show her implant in episode 1 and second, who took her implant out (assuming she had one)??

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I am liking this show and I am not sure why. Although, the underwear camera dance scene could have had something to do with it.

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That guy that roughed him up and took the information was the same detective that Janet was talking to in the first episode before she got taken. He was trying to find her husband. I sort of thought that he was now working for Janet's mother since a lot of the information mentioned were in reference to her tainted past (including absuive mother).

I will say that the bright light that brought them right back to the town certainly changed the game for me. What the hell is going on?!

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I am calling the mother a red herring. She appeared to be genuine during the phone call with the daughter.

The bright light jump could have been creative editing. Bright light, they black out and are taken back to town and setup in the van.

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Perhaps, but she was also a passive-aggressive mega-bitch to her 6 year-old granddaughter about the missing puzzle pieces (like she was working on a 1000+ piece puzzle and figured out there were missing pieces in the DAY the granddaughter has been there?!?!).

Not buying it. People don't just "black out". And they've all removed that remote-controlled ampule that does that. If that were the case, why wouldn't they have been shown as groggy? In fact Janet was still in the exact same position when they got to the "Welcome Back!" sign, gripping the wheel to make Blackham continue into the bright light. You can't just leave a bit like that out...

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Then we are talking teleportation, which is a little far fetched for a series grounded in "today" or ackkkk a Matrix type virtual reality. If they wake up in a lab somewhere, I am gonna be pissed.

BTW the female leads microwave facial injuries cleared up half way through the episode. I thought it was a continuity error, but maybe not.

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A continuity error I'd believe. After all in the "previously on" segment, they showed Janet reading her fortune which was one single line on the slip of paper, but when she checked it again in this episode, it was split into two lines. So who knows? :lol:

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Wormholes! This show just left the land of the here and now and landed deep in the heart of scifi territory.

Just a little nitpick but the continuity director on this series should have been fired. The fortune cookie messages kept changing in every shot. The "y" in "you" is capitalized in one shot, then not, then capitalized again. (I noticed this because I thought it was odd that "You" was capitalized in mid-sentence.) The message to our heroine (whats-her-name) is all on one line in one shot, two lines in the next. There were a few other things as well but I can't remember now.

[Edit] Oops -- just read the whole thread and see someone beat me to it. And yes, the face was the other thing I couldn't remember.

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Did anyone else find it disturbing that Tori chose to dance topless for the surveillance camera, while every other time she has addressed the camera she states her belief that her father is the one watching them?

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At 1st I thought Janet's mother may be involved, but I agree I'm not so sure now. Now I'm wondering how Janet's daughter made that garbled phone call to her.

^^ Wasn't that scene before Tori assumed her father was behind it? Nah, I don't think it was disturbing.

Yeah I agree the continuity errors were hilarious.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

I thought that the road just circled around and brought them back to the town. In the confusion and the storm they wouldn't have noticed that they were circling around. The bright light was there to block the view of the town so they wouldn't know they were going back until they got there.

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I may be wrong but didn't her fortune say "kill your neighbor" in the first ep. and "kill Sam" (I think that's his name) in this ep.

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Her fortune from episode 1 said "Kill Your Neighbor and You'll Go Free." However, I think someone put another fortune in her room with the gun that said "Kill Joe and You will go free"

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Here is the shot from episode 1:
http://www.imageuploads.net/ims/pic....5CzSC&i=185921

Here is the shot from episode 2, 3:09 in:
http://www.imageuploads.net/ims/pic....5CzSC&i=185922

You are thinking about the NEW fortune that was left with the gun she found in her room which said kill Joe.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

liked the 2nd episode better than the 1st... I'm probably in until the end.

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Nice of the show to let us know torture NEVER works.

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The writing on this show continues to be simply awful. It is so amateurish I'm left to wonder if there isn't a nepotistic reason this show made it to air. The dialogue is some of the worst I've ever heard outside of first year screenwriting classes and either the ridiculous continuity errors are purposeful and will be explained later, or they simply don't care and ran out of money (it is nothing more than a summer replacement anyway.) The characters are as thin and one dimensional as a business card and bordering on pure stereotype. Moira is the "expositional character" who turns out to be a mental patient, but is able to perform deep muscle tissue extraction with a swiss army knife, no anesthesia and no sanitization. Oh, and they're able to run afterwards... -ohbfrank-

I'll give it one more episode but if the writing doesn't get any better (and I hold no hopes that it will) then I am out. Life's too short to watch shitty TV.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

I don't think anyone here believes this is good writing or acting (I hope), but the puzzles are kind of fun and it's a summer guilty pleasure. This is the kind of show that is so bad, it can get away with the unexpected and I am tired of formulas.

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I agree completely. This show isn't going to win any awards but it's entertaining enough to watch during the summer.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

yup to everything ^^^ said up there....

we're in it till the end, too much damn fun not to be....

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

How this show made air:

1) The creator and Producer (Chris McQuarrie) is an Academy Award Winning Screenwriter.
2) It's a co-production with FOX and Televisa Mexico meaning it was shot entirely on location in Mexico using local Mexican production crews saving millions on production costs.
3) The cast is mostly B actors (Jason Wiles and Alan Ruck are probably the best known of the cast) again saving lots of $$$ in costs.
4) NBC paid a very small licensing fee to FOX to air it.

I agree with your assessment about Moira and the removal of the implants. But, I'm not watching this looking for reasons to hate it. I've been entertained through 2 episodes. Harper's Island, which was a similar 1 and done show was entertaining even though alot of people complained about the acting too. Your comment about the dialogue is really subjective. I haven't noticed anything that was really stiff or unnatural sounding. I think it's already tough for a TV writer to create stuff that someone would actually say in real life in order for it to work in the plot. Most of the shows that I watch that have better production value than this, I always ask myself if someone would actually speak that way in a normal conversation and probably 9 times out of 10 I would say no.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

Which is why I was looking forward to it. I love Chris McQuarrie's stuff and I think he's a very talented writer. This is why I'm both surprised and saddened by the amateurish plot turns and dialogue.

I'm really hoping they have something really nifty in store to justify what's happened so far. I want to like it, but so far the crappiness is drawing me out of the story.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

as long as it finishes, the ratings for Monday's ep were abysmal at best.