Millennium (TV series): Difference between revisions

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]].

 

 

 

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]]''.

 

* [[Abusive Parents]] - The Dad in "The Well-Worn Lock"

* [[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

* [[The End of the World As 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 The 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.

* [[I Am Legion]] - Frank's true nemesis, of which Lucy Butler is only one face

* [[Initiation Ceremony]] - {{spoiler|Which drove Lara Means insane}} in the second season finale

* [[Mad Bomber]] ("522666")

* [[Murder By Cremation]] ("Gehenna")

* [[Music Video Syndrome]] - An entire act of the season 2 finale is essentially a music video for Patti Smith's "Land".

* [[Never One Murder]]