The Andromeda Strain – Tv Show

Yes, there is also a movie with this name… The movie came out in 1971, and is also based on a book called “The Andromeda Strain”, written by Michael Crichton and published in 1969.

Now… I haven’t seen the movie or read the book… yet! I will, and posts about it will be written, but for now, I’ll just tell you about the TV series.

This two episode mini-series tells us the story of a satellite that has fallen to earth, near a small town in Utah, unleashing an unknown virus that kills everyone except for two inhabitants. Of course, as often happens in movies and TV shows, the military summon a team of experts to investigate and come up with a cure, while the area is quarantined, and the news bout the incident contained.

I was quite happy with the first episode, but the second one seamed a bit rushed, everything just kind of happened suddenly in the last 10 minutes, which made it a bit disappointing, I must say.

Also, all through the series the scientists speak in complete “science mode”, which, although realistic, makes it hard to follow and fully understand what is going on.

Benjamin Bratt, playing the leader of “team scientists” (actually code named “Wildfire”), and Eric McCormack, playing the nosy (drugs and alcohol recuperating, with a grudge against the army), reporter, do a great job giving us a brave (almost crossing over to complete nut job), reporter and a strong fearless leader, and who wouldn’t want them on our side.

It wasn’t a complete let down, and the actors were pretty good, but altogether it was disappointing.

I already have the movie waiting, but I was so disappointed by the TV show, I keep thinking the movie is going to be that way as well. anyway, once I’ve seen it, you will know.

Outcasts TV show

I’ve been catching up on my tv shows… To do it faster, I’ve been choosing mini series, however this one show, with only eight episodes managed to jump into my radar and I just could not let it speed through without learning more about it.
You see, this is not a mini series, but one of those shows that gets canceled after a bunch of episodes, because ratings are just not cutting it for the execs.
The thing is, a show about the human race trying to make it, after corrupting their own planet, in a new one, discovered within a godly locks zone, five spaceship travel years away, sounds just like my kind of tune, so I couldn’t just ignore it… I tried, by the way… and it just didn’t work.
The first few episodes, might have been what I describe as: meh *shrug*, but the fact is I got hooked pretty soon after, and it was sensational.
Since the show had been canceled, I tried to find some feedback as to why, and it turns out that the ratings just weren’t making it, but what really got me were the brutal reviews that talked about this show as if it were complete rubbish.
Well I just couldn’t let this be!
To me, the show read as believable and realist, well not as realistic as this could be happening today, but realistic in the sense that this could very well happen, and is pretty much how our species would act.
Everything from the scenery, (very low tech and colony like), to the very few high tech gadgets just got to you to the point that you could really believe somewhere in the future this was possible. But what made the show, for me, were the constant emotional gut ranching moments that always managed to bring a tear to my eye.
Altogether, and though it leaves you right when it’s about to get better, it is a show you don’t want to miss.