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''[[The Chris Carter Effect|who cares?]]''|opening titles, first season}}
 
''Millennium'' was a FOX show created by [[Chris Carter]], best known for ''[[The X -Files]]''. Lasting three seasons, 1996-1999, it starred Lance Henriksen as ex-FBI agent Frank Black (not [[Pixies|that Frank Black]]), a consultant to various police forces investigating violent crimes with the mysterious Millennium Group. The show was [[Retool|retooled]] significantly each season--the executive producers of the show changed each season. Throughout the series' run, however, the overall tone remained dark and disturbing, which did not appeal to mainstream television viewers, but earned the respect of a devoted group of fans.
 
The first season focused primarily on Frank's work as [[The Profiler]], consulting with police forces in catching violent criminals, usually serial killers. The audience saw brief clips of Frank's perception of what the criminals saw, but it was left deliberately vague whether these were psychic visions, or just Frank's non-supernatural, but highly skilled, insights into the criminals' minds. Forays into the supernatural were few and ambiguous in the first season.
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The third season saw Frank leave the Millennium Group due to their actions at the end of the second season, and return to the FBI. Its subject material was somewhere between the first and second seasons: it returned to some extent to the criminal-of-the-week format of the first season, but also explored mystical and religious themes, and the nature of the Millennium Group as in the second season. Unfortunately, the [[Executive Meddling]] in this season led to some outright continuity violations: the plague released at the end of the second season, projected to kill a significant fraction of the population of the North American west coast, instead kills less than a hundred people, which is never adequately explained; we learn that J. Edgar Hoover founded the Millennium Group, after learning in the previous season that the Group's history dates back at least to [[The Middle Ages]].
 
After cancellation, the show received a [[Fully-Absorbed Finale]] in ''[[The X -Files]]'' episode "Millennium." The episode was included with the DVD release of the final season of ''Millennium''.
 
The [[Fully-Absorbed Finale]] was not well-received by fans, however. Internet fans created an entire [https://web.archive.org/web/20091020111353/http://www.paperstreetprod.com/compendium/vs/ fourth season] of [[Fanfic]] scripts to give the show a proper ending.
 
The show should not be confused with the 1983 [[John Varley]] novel of the same title, or the 1989 film based on it, which deal with an airplane crash caused by [[Time Travel]], or with ''[[The Millennium Trilogy]]''.
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* [[Artistic Title]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]] - Frank Black ("The Beginning and the End")
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]] - Frank's ability to see the world through the eyes of serial killers and murderers,(Sure, it's useful but who would WANT that?)
* [[Breather Episode]]: "Jose Chung's Doomday Defense" and "Somehow Satan Got Behind Me". Given how dark the series was, these were necessary to keep the audience sane.
* [[Buried Alive]] - In the pilot episode, the victims having their mouths and eyes sewn shut, and then being nailed into coffins. While still alive.
* [[Came Back Wrong]] - "Powers and Principalities"
* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]] - Implied to be the future of one of the kidnapped children in "19:19"
* [[Darker and Edgier]] - Much of the humor that offset ''[[The X -Files]]''' horror is absent here.
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]] - which Legion keeps offering Frank through various guises. [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in that Frank never accepts despite all the threats to his family. Some of Frank's targets play this straight.
* [[The Devil]] - Legion, described as "the devil's liege, the base sum of all evil"
* [[The Devil Is a Loser]] - "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me," which subverts much of the rest of the show's darkness
* [[Do They Know It's Christmas Time?]] ("Midnight of the Century," "Omerta")
* [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]] - The "blood plague" that breaks out in the season 2 finale. {{spoiler|Thanks to [[Executive Meddling]], the world got better in time for season 3.}}
* [[Executive Meddling]]
* [[Finger in Thethe Mail]] - The serial killer variation showed up where a sinister figure known as "the Judge" has criminals committing vigilante killings and mailing body parts to the victims' victims.
* [[Fully-Absorbed Finale]]
* [[I Am Legion]] - Frank's true nemesis, of which Lucy Butler is only one face
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* [[Killed Off for Real]] - {{spoiler|Catherine Black}}
* [[Mad Bomber]] ("522666")
* [[Murder Byby Cremation]] ("Gehenna")
* [[Murder.Com]] ("The Mikado")
* [[Music Video Syndrome]] - An entire act of the season 2 finale is essentially a music video for Patti Smith's "Land".
* [[Never One Murder]]
* [[Next Sunday ADA.D.]] - In the first two seasons, the login message on Frank's computer tells him how many days are remaining until 1/1/00.
* [[Ouroboros]] - A tattoo of one marks each member of the Millenium group.
* [[The Profiler]] - Frank Black
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