{television} millennium; season one (1996)

X-Files creator Chris Carter is the man behind this equally fascinating (if not as long-running) series about a retired serial-killer profiler (Lance Henriksen) who joins a special group formed to protect the innocent from the forces of darkness. This collection includes all 22 episodes of the first season; Sarah-Jane Redmond and Meghan Gallagher co-star.

ireviewnetflix.com rating: ** (Actually 2.5) I kind of like this show...at times. There were some great episodes and some real stinkers. Overall, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, but at the end of the day it was still background noise more than anything else. I'm not a huge X-Files fan and was worried that this would be too X-Files, being that it was created by Chris Carter, but I was pleasantly surprised to see it was more like CSI than X-Files. The first couple of episodes were great, but halfway through the season the wheels kind of fell off and there were more bad, nay boring, episodes than good episodes. I did start to lose a little interest towards the end of the season, and while the season finale was pretty bad and didn't leave me wanting more as a cliffhanger should, but I'll still think I'll check out the second season.