Millennium (TV Series) Antipas (1999) User Reviews

The best supernatural episode of Millennium.

[Middle-earthfan84 · 9/10 · 27 November 2009]

Of all the episodes of Millennium that deal with the supernatural, this one is undoubtedly the best. In this episode, Lucy Butler, who had appeared on the series before, is back, this time, she wants to destroy a politicians family and as most absurd as this may seem she wants to have a child with Frank Black. In Millennium there are no monsters, creatures or aliens like on The X-files. In this series, the monster is the monster within each man, the inner evil. That's not the case in this episode, as in any other Lucy Butler episode. Lucy Butler is evil, literally, she is a demon with shape shifting abilities who wants to corrupt Frank at all cost.

In an unforgettable scene of this episode, Frank is sleeping in a hotel room, suddenly he awakes and finds himself having sexual intercourse with Lucy Butler, when he realizes what's happening, he tries to stop it, that's when Lucy's face becomes a face of a demon. He wakes up as if everything had been a dream, later on, he discovers that Lucy is carrying his child. Near the end of the episode, Frank runs down with his car what appeared to be a man, but was actually, Lucy Butler, when he and agent Hollis get out of the car, Agent Hollis asks him if Lucy is dead, he replies saying: " she is not, she never will be", consequently, she loses the "child". In the end of the episode Lucy threatens Frank's daughter, Jordan, but as Frank had said before, she can corrupt men, but not innocents.

This is a wonderful episode of Millennium written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz,there are very good moments on this episode, like the appearance of a devilish attorney, representing Lucy Butler" the devil's advocate" Mark Snow's score seem even better than usual, Thomas J. Wright does an excellent job directing, just like Rob Bowman and Kim Manners on The X-files, and Sarah Jane-Redmond's portrayal of Lucy Butler is just awesome. This is one of the best episodes of the series, it may not be the best, but it's definitely the coolest.

Just like that in the Wind-up Bird Chronicle

[R3ason · 8/10 · 7 September 2021]

As the incarnation of the pure evil, Lucy Butler came back in this episode.

The story is kind of plain, execpt for the part that includes Frank Black. The plot between Frank and Lucy reminded me of the Wind-up Bird Chronicle, a novel written by Haruki Murakami, a Japanese novelist. In the novel, the protagonist had sex with a prostitute via a dream, after he had just broken up with his wife. And the same evil came to tempt Frank, who actually was in the same shoes of the protagonist in the Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

The episodes on Lucy Bulter may contain some metaphors, and are the most imaginative in the whole series, just like the work of Haruki Murakami.

Make room for Daddy!

[XweAponX · 10/10 · 14 November 2018]

In this episode, Lucy Butler is on the verge of obtaining that which she so greatly desires from Frank. And her path to that goal is a very convoluted one.

Art Hindle plays John Saxom, a politician with designs on a governorship. His wife "Una", played by Susan Hogan, is very tired looking woman, mother to a sickly child named "Divina-" A little girl who's health seems to improve after a strange encounter with Lucy Butler.

In the middle of a conference at the FBI, Frank Black is suddenly inundated with photographs that appear to be jumbles of the word "Antipas"- which eventually brings Frank to the politician's mansion and another encounter with Lucy Butler.

And it is a very strange encounter indeed, what we believed to be a fever dream of Frank's were actually real time events, but events that only Frank could see.

Enter the great character actor Jay Brazeau as Lucy Butler's interestingly demented lawyer "Selwyn Wassenaar", who has some improper things to say to Agent Hollis that are on the very edge of racism, as well as his famous line to Frank which is the title of my review. It is worth sitting through this entire episode just to watch this very realistic Performance. Jay was also the guy in Stargate SG-1 who turns them all into robots, "KamTrai-ah"! Plus at least one X-Files episode.

We learn a few things about Lucy butler in this episode, but the most important thing that happens here is the set up to the eventual showdown between Lucy and Jordan Black, which will happen in "Saturn dreaming of Mercury"- see my review for that episode.

And I have to agree with the other reviewer in here, that this is the best "spiritual" episode of Millennium, although I would say it is a tie between this one and "Saturn dreaming of Mercury", but as you know the lines between pure spirituality are blurred between Franks' gift and his perception of things that happen on a different plane that other people do not see, but he does. For example, refer to the season one episode "Lamentations", where Frank witnesses a confrontation between the Al Pepper a.k.a. "Legion" and the other entity posing as a kid named "Sammael"- who claims that being in this plane causes him great pain, and that his helping Frank wasn't really about helping Frank. But where everyone else saw Sammael shooting Al Pepper, Frank "didn't see it that way"- and something very similar happens here between him and Lucy Butler.

A gift from heaven.

[bombersflyup · 6/10 · 13 November 2019]

Antipas isn't bad at all. Lucy's back and messing with Frank. He gets Hollis taken off the case, which is the right thing to do. Without explaining it though, it's unlikely to work, Lucy makes it so she does get involved. Frank wakes in a nightmare of sexual activity with Lucy on top of him and she charges him with rape. Hilarious, what can he do. What Hollis believes transpired's avoided and unlikely to be brought up again, like everything on this show.