Torchwood
TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY—E5
I’m hereby officially reclassifying Torchwood: Miracle Day as Category 1: it’s not dead, but, by all rights, it should be. By all the laws of nature, by everything that is holy, by any reasonable assessment of quality of life, Miracle Day should be put to rest. Let’s stick a red clothespin on it, throw a blanket over its pathetic carcass, and roll it gently over to the incinerator to be put out of its misery. Continue reading
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TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY—E4
Torchwood: Miracle Day is too stupid to take seriously, and too self-serious to be fun. Continue reading
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TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY—E3
Three episodes in, I’m still asking: what is the point of all of this? What makes this story worth telling? In the beginning I was willing to give Miracle Day the benefit of the doubt, since the basic set-up seemed to promise something fascinating; so far, however, the show has not delivered on the potential of its own premise. We have far too much 24-style running around—most of it unnecessary and unexciting—and far too little exploration of what would surely constitute the most important, life-changing development in the history of the human race. Continue reading
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TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY – E2
I’m starting to worry that Torchwood: Miracle Day might have been far better without the Torchwood. Continue reading
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TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY – E1
Miracle Day, like Torchwood: Children of Earth, has a big, global concept at its center: what if, one day, everyone on Earth simply stopped dying? People still get injured, still grow old, still get sick—but they don’t die. Death simply takes a vacation—for reasons that have yet to be explained—and a few characters realize that what seems like a “miracle” could become a global crisis in a matter of weeks. Continue reading
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