The Dark Ages by Sarah Stegall copyright ©1996 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Chris Carter Director: David Nutter “Men don’t need reasons. All they need is an excuse.” Frank Black is going to blow Fox Mulder out of the water. Chris Carter’s new series, “Millennium”, erupts onto the screen with a pilot both terrifying and mesmerizing, complete with Carter’s trademark style, pessimism, and depth. As sheer drama, it poses more of a threat to “The X-Files” than any of the pale imitations of that landmark series that have hit the airwaves this year. Fox Mulder is cool, arrogant, hip, and sexy,…
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Millennium: “Gehenna”
Eschatology 101 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Chris Carter Director: David Nutter In college I took a survey course in Russian literature. The professor, a defrocked Jesuit, spent a good half semester teaching us the ins and outs of eschatological trivia, the kind of thing that explains why 666 is an evil number, why in Western culture we “instinctively” knock on a door three times or five times but never two times, why seven is a lucky number and why eight is not. These clues to a deeper subtext in our own culture are fascinating and revealing to some intellectual minds,…