I was never that into dinosaurs. Sure, I watched Jurassic Park along with everyone else, but, like David Foster Wallace once wrote, the story loses its plot after awhile, and by the fifth viewing you are really goddamn rooting for those velociraptors. A similar observation can be made of the BBC series Primeval, which was created by the people who brought you the “Walking with the…” series, and uses something called “anomalies” to bring prehistoric creatures into our world, and to wreak all kinds of improper havoc in the city of London. It’s the job of a rag-tag team of scientists from the Arc (Anomaly Research Center) to locate the portals, and corral any stray dodo birds or mammoths back to their homes. But, their appearances seem so unrelenting, as if the world wants them so badly to happen, it comes off as ridiculous of them to try so hard to stop it.
- 9/26/2009
- by Michael Narkunski
- JustPressPlay.net
The world of Primeval is a duplicitous one, with schemes within schemes, most of which take far too long to play out. When the BBC series was renewed for a third season, they were given a ten episode order and they decided to change things up while introducing new threats, leaving things more muddled than necessary.
Airing this spring in England and here on Sci-Fi Channel, the series garnered good reviews and very solid ratings. However, Itc, facing a cash crunch, canceled the series, paving the way for a big screen adaptation currently being mounted by Warner Bros. For fans, though, they can relive the exploits with Primeval: Volume Two, released Tuesday by BBC Video.
The series, about a team of specialists protecting the citizens of the 21st century from prehistoric beasties that have come though spatial anomalies, had two shorter but stronger seasons. Between seasons one and two, an...
Airing this spring in England and here on Sci-Fi Channel, the series garnered good reviews and very solid ratings. However, Itc, facing a cash crunch, canceled the series, paving the way for a big screen adaptation currently being mounted by Warner Bros. For fans, though, they can relive the exploits with Primeval: Volume Two, released Tuesday by BBC Video.
The series, about a team of specialists protecting the citizens of the 21st century from prehistoric beasties that have come though spatial anomalies, had two shorter but stronger seasons. Between seasons one and two, an...
- 9/14/2009
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
The first several seasons of "The X-Files" rank as some of the best entertainment television has to offer. They deftly mixed creatures, characters, and creative storytelling together to form a captivating show with more hits than misses. Episodes were divided between the mythology, which explored the series' story arc of aliens and Mulder's missing sister, and stand alone episodes referred to as the monster-of-the-week. I was always more partial to the latter style where each episode brought new creatures and challenges without the heavy burden of deep conspiracies and back story. The show was eventually consumed by cast changes, confusion, and mediocrity, and there's been nothing approaching it's monster-filled greatness on TV since. Until now. "Primeval" is a British show about a team of scientists and government agents investigating a series of time portals, or temporal anomalies, or doorways into the prehistoric past, or glittery light shows from whence deadly creatures emerge... let's...
- 5/16/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The BBC reserves its Saturday night prime time slots for genre-bending fare and it’s where shows vie for a place. Primeval is one of the newer series to occupy the coveted slot on ITV and recently completed its run on BBC America. Today, Warner Home Video collects the first 13 episodes, comprising its first two seasons, as Primeval Volume One, which will have to tide us over until season three kicks off next year.
Totally unrelated to Doctor Who or other Sf series, the show seems to owe more Jurassic Park than anything. We’re in a world where spatial anomalies randomly open (throughout only England it seems) and objects animal, vegetable or mineral can cross through.
On the one hand, it’s a paleontologist’s dream, on the other hand it’s also a nightmare as long extinct predators arrive seeking dinner. A group of individuals, responding to what...
Totally unrelated to Doctor Who or other Sf series, the show seems to owe more Jurassic Park than anything. We’re in a world where spatial anomalies randomly open (throughout only England it seems) and objects animal, vegetable or mineral can cross through.
On the one hand, it’s a paleontologist’s dream, on the other hand it’s also a nightmare as long extinct predators arrive seeking dinner. A group of individuals, responding to what...
- 11/4/2008
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
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