Persons Unknown - "Pilot"

You've gotta know the story by now, right? There's a group of Alias Seasons 1-5 DVD boxset, from all different walks of life. Someone or something calls them together to a mysterious locale that is enough like the world we're all familiar with from our day to day lives to be Arrested Development Seasons 1-3 DVD boxset but just a few degrees enough off of that to be absolutely terrifying. While there, they puzzle out the rather As Time Goes By Seasons 1-9 DVD boxset matter of why they're there, while trying to figure out more practical things as well, like how to escape their Battlestar Galactica Seasons 1-4 DVD boxset, weird prison and just why, exactly, they're of such interest to the overlords behind the project. Eventually, they solve enough of the riddles to Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1-7 DVD boxset out why they're there and to figure out a way to thwart the forces keeping them there, and then they escape. Or they don't, and the final Alias DVD is of one of them revealing the man in charge the whole time has been himself. Y'know, whatever.

Persons Unknown is almost the perfect summer version of this Arrested Development DVD. It's just demanding enough to make you think it might be worth following, but it's not so demanding that you'll spend every hour of every day thinking about it and As Time Goes By DVD about it. If anything, it gives the lie to those people who were always complaining about how the gang on Lost Island should have been asking far more Battlestar Galactica DVD, because, man, the people on this show keep asking questions of anyone who will listen, and it eventually just gets incredibly annoying. There's a scene Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD the end where they have occasion to spill out all of their questions, and they mostly boil down to, "Where are we?" and "How do we get home?" Alias DVD set, this is exactly what I'd be asking in this situation, but in a scenario where you're relatively certain no one will be answering the questions, it's not very Arrested Development DVD set interesting.

The brains behind Persons Unknown are As Time Goes By DVD set, who won an Oscar for scripting The Usual Suspects, and Michael Rymer, who was the primary director behind the Battlestar Galactica remake and the one responsible for that Battlestar Galactica DVD set's visual style from the miniseries onward. To that end, Persons Unknown feels almost exactly like what you'd think a collaboration between the two would feel like. There are long Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD set of static machinery and pseudo-documentary shots from the point of view of the surveillance cameras keeping an eye on everyone in the little town where the Alias DVD boxset is set. There are questions piled on top of more questions and quickly sketched in character conflicts and at least one awkward framing Arrested Development DVD boxset involving a reporter. And in a move sure to please the many who worry that these kinds of shows get more and more strained the longer they go on, McQuarrie has apparently As Time Goes By DVD boxset the series much like a miniseries. We'll have a full explanation for what's been going on by the end of the season, and if it's a big hit, Battlestar Galactica DVD boxset will just have to figure out where to go from there next summer.

But I'd be hard-pressed to see this becoming a big Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD boxset. I'm going to watch every episode of it, but that's just because that's the kind of person I am. I love these sorts of shows, and even if I can see where Alias Seasons 1-5 DVD boxset this is going from the first couple of moments, I can find plenty to enjoy. (Astute observers of this subgenre will likely be able to predict what the final Arrested Development Seasons 1-3 DVD boxset of the episode is within the first few moments of the initial setup. That doesn't make the skill with which McQuarrie and Rymer deploy the twist have any less As Time Goes By Seasons 1-9 DVD boxset.) But the show is so devoted toward pressing the plot forward in all instances that the characters remain Battlestar Galactica Seasons 1-4 DVD boxset, and that makes it the kind of show that's likely to inspire mild curiosity, rather than ardor.

The setup, honestly, is a promising one and half the reason I'm Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1-7 DVD boxset it. A handful of people wake up in a weird old hotel (I love weird old hotels!). Gradually, they come together and figure out a Alias DVD off the floor they're trapped on. When they make it to the lobby, they begin to realize that they're the only people in the hotel and in the tiny town that the hotel is Arrested Development DVD in. As they begin to explore the backlot, er, town, other stuff starts to happen, some of it easily explainable, some of it not so easily explainable. They all come in easily explainable As Time Goes By DVD, from the single mother who cares too much to the soldier (who's probably seen a lot of stuff he'd rather forget) to the high-strung dude Battlestar Galactica DVD's played by Alan Ruck (as high-strung dudes must always be). McQuarrie finds some inventive ways to expand this cast, and he does so in a way that will keep Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD wondering just what the hell is going on here. As a setup for a mystery puzzle box show, it's dynamite.

There's one thing that doesn't really work here. The Alias DVD set keeps cutting away to a reporter and his fellow newspaper staff trying to figure out just what happened to our single mother, and it's usually an exercise in tedium to go and watch these Arrested Development DVD set, sort of like watching those scenes where Will was on the trail of SD-6 in season one of Alias. This is just not as interesting as what's happening in the As Time Goes By DVD set town. Indeed, it's pretty much doomed to be less interesting. McQuarrie doesn't spend a lot of time on this storyline, but that it's involved at all means that it will Battlestar Galactica DVD set have some bearing on what's going to happen, and it's inevitably going to be something of a disappointment.

But the larger problem is that the show seems to want to Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD set a little bit too much on the fact that its premise is so much fun. Now, McQuarrie and Rymer figure out ways to deploy the usual twists with some Alias DVD boxset of aplomb, but they're still the usual sorts of twists. Persons Unknown is a show that seems to want to exist in a universe where there weren't millions of other Arrested Development DVD boxset like this out there over the past decade, and it's a show that wants us to be completely interested in it merely because it's presenting mysteries. Obviously, there are As Time Goes By DVD boxset out there who will invest on that level. I'm one of them. But stories like this work only if we get a sense that the characters are going to become more interesting over time, and there's no Battlestar Galactica DVD boxset whatsoever in Persons Unknown that that's going to be the case.

On the other hand, it's the summer. What else are you gonna Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD boxset? Persons Unknown isn't perfect, by any means, but it's nice to see something that takes the old "mysterious place filled with mysterious people" concept and Alias Seasons 1-5 DVD boxset it down to its bare bones to see what it can find ticking beneath the framework of other, better shows. Particularly if you like the idea that you're going to get all of your Arrested Development Seasons 1-3 DVD boxset by the end of the summer, Persons Unknown just might be for you. Honestly, though, I suspect you already know this because you heard "A bunch of people wake up in a As Time Goes By Seasons 1-9 DVD boxset and have to figure out how they got there" and thought, "Cool," instead of, "Seen it!"
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