[SilverMiniCooperS]

Are any of you watching this? Last night was the second episode and (unlike Lost) we won't have to wait umpteen years to find out who, what where and why!!! Supposedly we'll find out at the end of summer - so it must be just a one season thing.

Persons Unknown

If there was something more decent on elsewhere I'm not sure I would watch it, but it is rather interesting....

[JuanaLaLoca]

Sounds interesting, but too bad it's on in conflict with one of the few (now that Lost and 24 are over and most other shows are off for the summer) shows that I'm currently watching! It's always the way! I'm hoping that Happy Town will get a conclusion, too, since it's been canceled. Harper Island last year was pretty much a one-season mystery show, too.

[ukus]

Another one to watch 'on demand'

[ukus]

I caught up with both episodes. I feel the script is a little lacking in the program but am intrigued enough to keep watching.

Some things I didn't get...

How come they didn't try to smash the camera's? (although we now know they are easily replaced after Janet shot one out after making poor Joe sweat bucket's before she did )

How did the van they were escaping in, get turned around?

Why didn't it occur to them that the butterfly would get fried if they let it go? ..that was my first thought

How come they didn't beat the crap out of the night manager to get some answers on their return? They now know he is one of them because he was able to run through microwave barrier.

How come they didn't beat the crap out of Bill the car salesman just for the fun of it? ... he's soooo annoying.

[JuanaLaLoca]

Thanks to Karen's mentioning On Demand, I also watched both episodes last night! It is certainly interesting.

I also was wondering most of the things that Karen asked. I also thought that the butterfly was sure to get fried. I was wondering why they didn't try asking the Chinese restaurant guys at least who had hired them, or something like that, once they decided that they were not the responsible ones. They just didn't try to get any more information out of them. Oh, and why did the Chinese guys give them back their gun, since they were sure to be angry and did in fact almost shoot them later? And, yes, why no strong reaction when they got back and the night manager was there waiting for them? Although I'm not so sure that he is one of 'them'; I think that he is being used as much as the others, although they are using him for a different purpose and apparently have been doing so for some time at other locations.

The car salesman and Alan Ruck (the only one of the actors I know) are a couple of hotheads and sure to get into trouble. I believe Moira was a mental patient, but she also has a lot of medical knowledge, so was probably in that field originally. I also think that she has the hots for Spoiled Rich Girl.

So far, it seems like perhaps each person had someone willing to pay for them to 'disappear', but didn't want to go as far as murdering them. Rich Girl's father didn't want her to spill his secrets. Janet's mother, who is one scary woman, wants to raise her granddaughter, although I doubt she'll do any better this time around.

We'll see how far that reporter gets. For the moment, he seems to have been scared into dropping it.

[ukus]

Oh yes Janet's mother is very creepy (I may never do a jigsaw again) .... let's hope her sweet little Grandaughter is saved from her clutches very soon.

I kinda understand why they didn't push the Chinese guys too far as they seem to be great cooks and that is the only restaurant in town

I think you are right about the night manager Juana. He said something to the effect that he had done this before. ( Hummnn time to start putting the clues together)

I agree with you about Moira too. She did seem to have a glint in her eye for the rich girl when she was trying on a new outfit.

[SilverMiniCooperS]

Aha! You're both hooked now!!

I have also wondered about some of the questions you bring up and no, I don't have the answers - if we did there wouldn't be a show!

I think this is NBC's answer to LOST!!!! And if the ending is anything like LOST I shall be royally pissed!

[ukus]

Well I certainly wouldn't say this program was on the par of Lost .... but I too would hope for a no questions asked ending.

[SilverMiniCooperS]

Hmmmmm - last night, the ending - that was a turn-up for the books!!

[JuanaLaLoca]

I assumed that the detective faked that photo, but I could be mistaken, and it could really be her husband. But the way he's been behaving so far, I didn't get any impression that he had known her previously, like when he first saw the tape of her being abducted.

Overall, a very gassy episode! I noticed that Karen seems to get the brunt of the incidents, more so than the others. I can't remember; was she one of the two who passed out when they found out about the first barrier that triggered those implants? But she definitely was the first one who ran up against the 'pain gun', then last night she was overcome by the gas in the tunnel, and later trapped in the room without a gas mask (with Alan Ruck, who had one). She did miss out on the gas mask gas, though.

Ha - bet that Car Salesman won't be hitting on Rich Girl any more! And an interesting revelation about Ruck (sorry, but I still haven't memorized most of their names); I wonder how that came about to be taped in the first place. They must have been watching him for a while.

[ukus]

Just watched this yesterday. Ha, loved seeing Bill get sorted by the rich girl

I can't imagine the newspaper guy really being Janet's husband. Surely he wouldn't have left his daughter with his spooky MIL !!!........ but it makes me want to tune in and see what that is all about.

Um Juana, did you mean to write Janet not Karen? Mentioning my name regarding a 'very gassy' episode could give me a complex ya know

[JuanaLaLoca]

Um Juana, did you mean to write Janet not Karen? Mentioning my name regarding a 'very gassy' episode could give me a complex ya know

Oops, sorry!!! Like I said, I've been having trouble figuring out their names so far........ (yeah, that's it!)

[ukus]

Well the plot thickens.

Poor rich girl, not only did her feminine charms not work on the spooky desk clerk and she struck out with that slimeball Bill, she also has to use cheap mascara that run's down her face when she cries ... bummer. I wonder if the big truck get's her now she has gone off in her taxi.

So after escaping their taxi being bashed into and cut in half by the big truck, Joe and Janet manage to find a cabin to hold up in overnight. Unfortunately when they awoke from their slumber's it was swarming with bee's, which wasn't good for Joe seeing as he is allergic to bee stings.... but the two made it out of the cabin and set off to find their freedom. Unfortunately although Janet is a whizz at star gazing it seems neither of them are any good at summing up directions from the sun because they found themselves back at the dreaded town. Not having the common sense to have packed up a few helpful items from the cabin Joe persuades Janet to go back into the town they have been so desperate to escape from, as is chilly and they are tired. She agrees ... no seriously she agrees.
We soon discover that Joe is one of 'them' and has been in with the plan/experiment (whatever it is) all along. I feel sure there is going to be a romance between the two as he is already softened towards her. Let's see if that throws a spanner in the works.

It would seem the newspaper guy IS Janet's ex after all.

[JuanaLaLoca]

I was surprised to see that the show was on at 8 last night - hadn't it been on at 10 for the previous weeks? Anyway, 8 worked out well for me, so I hope it stays that way.

I was really surprised to find out that the reporter actually is Janet's husband. Someone is definitely trying to scare him off the trail to find her. I still suspect her mother.

Other big surprise was that Joe is a plant! Wow! He obviously was under some kind of threat, though, so I wonder if he was coerced in some way, similar to what I suspect about the night manager. And the Chinese restaurant manager is not the stereotype he appeared to be, barely speaking English, but seems to be in a position of some authority, and in control of Joe.

On the other hand, they also appear to have made several attempts on Joe's life. I was thinking that the flat tire was unexpected, and that they would have all been killed if they had been driving down the road. And then the bees in the cabin were definitely no coincidence. On the other (other) hand, the flat tire may have been deliberate and Joe may not be allergic to bees at all. Both incidents could well have been to increase Janet's trust in him. Very convenient that she happened to catch a bee in town so that he could tell her that he was allergic. Insects don't exactly come and go freely.

I think that if I had been one of the others, when the taxi carrying Janet and Joe went out, I would have been very close beside it in order to get through the pain wall as it was lowered for the taxi to pass. It was barely rolling; they could have kept up with it.

Rich girl had a meltdown, and now she's gone. From the preview, I don't think she'll be back, but just replaced. That should be interesting.

Slimeball's attempts at blackmail failed when he almost became a victim - too bad, so sad! Oh, and he gets his kicks out of luring animals into the pain wall so that they die - what a sweetheart.

[SilverMiniCooperS]

I detected a romance between Joe and Janet from the very beginning - it was quite obvious. Buyt, I did not expect Joe to be 'one of them' or the restuarant manager. The night clerk I have always been suspicious of.

The soldier and the mentally ill girl seem to be getting rather chummy also! Like you Juana - I have a problem remembering all their names.

The bees - yes well, supposedly it is cold whereever it is they are, and bees do not come out in cold weather. They also return to their hive at dusk and emerge at dawn to forage. I guess that part could have been believable, but I would have thought they would have seen it the night before - it wasn't exactly hidden.

Juana, I too thought it had been on later before last night...here it was on at 7PM and I would have thought it was more suitable for later - ya know, kids an' all watching.

As for them always ending up back at the 'ranch' - I think the road only goes to the town....twisting and turning and always heads back. I was trying to figure out last night where they might be - by the countryside, and landscape. For all we know they could be in some foreign country or remote island somewhere.

I loved it when Charles almost smothered that obnoxious car salesman - for a second there I thought he'd really do it!! Hopefully, that will shut him up.

I haven't really figured out "the real world' bits. It would seem that Janet's mother in involved - the phone call to Janet from her daughter last week. Unless the mother left Megan alone, there is no way she couldn't have known about it...remember she walked in and asked Megan who she was talking to and took the phone from her.

I'm usually pretty good at working out 'who did it', but not this time.

[JuanaLaLoca]

No episode this week?

[SilverMiniCooperS]

I did a little digging and found this on a blog...

I'll be tuning in on Saturday the 17th, but I'm disappointed in NBC for moving this awesome show!

People with Nielsen boxes just do not watch good television.

So technically we didn't get one on Monday - Saturdays from now on. I'm not sure the ratings have been that great so they may move it around as they tend to do thus making it even more difficult for a show to take root.

[ukus]

I caught up with some proggies 'on demand' last night and the last one is where Joe get's sick Juana. Did you see that one?

I have to say I don't know whether it is the corny script or some of the over acting that some viewer's aren't too keen on. As for me now I've started watching it, I shall remain to see what the outcome is.

[JuanaLaLoca]

I caught up with some proggies 'on demand' last night and the last one is where Joe get's sick Juana. Did you see that one?

I have to say I don't know whether it is the corny script or some of the over acting that some viewer's aren't too keen on. As for me now I've started watching it, I shall remain to see what the outcome is.

I don't think so. I think I get this one On Demand, so I can check and watch if I missed it. Weird week - I was expecting this show on Monday, and Big Brother last night, and didn't get either! And on Sunday when I expected to watch Murder on the Orient Express on Masterpiece, the schedule listed a Marple rerun, too! But I did catch it the next night on another PBS channel. If Warehouse 13 isn't on tonight, I'll scream! (Happy Town should also be on, but that one is on shaky ground and wasn't on last week, so we'll see about that.) At least True Beauty was on on Monday!

[SilverMiniCooperS]

Wow Juana - you are really getting buggered on the TV shows. We got The Orient Express on Sunday and then after we got a repeat of the show in which David Suchet took a trip on the Orient Express...I really enjoyed that - both times!

Don't forget PU tomorrow night.

[ukus]

This is getting very strange...... Comcast had Saturday's PU as 'New' yet I had already seen it 'on demand'. It was the one I was talking about with Joe getting sick

[SilverMiniCooperS]

That's the one I saw (on Dish) on Saturday. Maybe they show them in advance on demand? I wondered what you were on about when you said Joe got sick - I wracked my brains and couldn't remember that!!!

I may have to go the NBC and watch Saturday's again. After over a week with no rain, the storms came in just as the show was airing and we lost our signal for chunks of it.

To be honest, I'm only continuing to watch it for two reasons. There's sod all on anywhere else and I want to see who 'they' are and why they did all this.

[ukus]

They usually don't show 'on demand' until after the airing, that is why I was surprised ...... I wonder if 'the other's' are messing with Comcast

To be honest, I'm only continuing to watch it for two reasons. There's sod all on anywhere else and I want to see who 'they' are and why they did all this.

Me too.

[JuanaLaLoca]

So, the finale is this Saturday. It's been interesting, and I don't have much of a clue what's going on. T-Lo are following it on their blog, and are about as confused as I am, but, like me, are just kind of going along for the ride. Sometimes they point out something I didn't notice, like that the Director woman was the crazy doctor lady that the reporter and his editor/girlfriend tried to interview in the hospital. What I just read today, however, has me rather upset. There is one episode in between last Saturday's and the finale, but it is ON THE WEB ONLY!!!!!!! NO FAIR!!!! I'll bet a lot of the answers will depend on that episode. Anyway, it is on Hulu, and T-Lo have it posted on their blog. I know that my connection at home would not support it, and I probably shouldn't be spending work time watching it. Sometimes new technology sucks, because people think they have to use it in order to be cool. I hope this is not a new trend, and that now you will have to jump back between the TV and the Internet in order to follow a series.

http://tomandlorenzo2.blogspot.com/2010 ... ntity.html

[ukus]

I kind of lost interest in this program, although I might take a look at the finale.

Fancy airing an episode to be shown only on the web!!!. I suppose they think it will add interest but I also hope this is not the start of a new trend.

[SilverMiniCooperS]

I lost interest in it also, but like Juana have been watching and haven't a clue what's going on.

Why the hell would they put an episode on the web??? If you hadn't mentioned it I would not have known.....not that I will watch it anyway... well maybe.....

We're not totally over the show. We still care how it ends and we still want answers, but it's getting to the point where it's a bit of a slog week in and week out and we just want to hit the finish line.

That's how I feel about it! Very well put.

[SilverMiniCooperS]

Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh

Never again will I get suckered into one of these programmes, or into the continuation of this one.

"Welcome to level two"?????

I don't think so.

[JuanaLaLoca]

Oh, well. Very few answers, and a whole bunch of new questions. I thought this was supposed to be just a one-summer thing. I wonder if it will be picked up again and continued, on 'Level 2'. Although poor Joe just can't seem to make it out of Level 1. And there is a police detective all set to pick up where Renbe left off - good thing, since Renbe is now a victim, too.

BTW, I did see the 'missing' episode On Demand.

[SilverMiniCooperS]

I didn't watch the 'missing' episode online - but there were two episodes on the telly Saturday and I figured one of those was the online version...was I right?

[JuanaLaLoca]

I didn't watch the 'missing' episode online - but there were two episodes on the telly Saturday and I figured one of those was the online version...was I right?

No, those two episodes made up the finale (what's the matter with just having a 2-hour finale these days? This seems to be a trend; maybe it lets them shove more commercials in between the two episodes or something. Pillars of the Earth also had two 1-hour episodes masquerading as a 2-hour finale.). In On Demand, they generally show the air date of TV episodes, and I noticed that they had 2 for 8/21, the one that I saw, and the 'missing' one (called 'Small Sacrifices'). Did I miss something, and did they actually show two episodes last week, as well? Maybe I just turned to something else after the first hour and didn't notice there was a second, although T-Lo was where I read that it was only online (and, now we know, On Demand).

[JuanaLaLoca]

Check out T-Lo's wrap-up of the last three episodes!

http://tomandlorenzo2.blogspot.com/2010 ... rapup.html

We admit it. We weren't really looking forward to writing this wrapup because "You've gotta be fucking kidding me" does not an entertaining read make. Still, we've come this far and we like to finish what we started, so we're just gonna do this rapid-style and try to compose some sort of ending thought. Strap yourselves in. This post should be more exciting than that finale, although that's not saying much.

My favorite bit:

Bill: *die*
Mark and Kat: We have no phones or money and one of us is a fugitive from the law but we made it to Iowa somehow, so HERE WE ARE, SECRET ORGANIZATION! OVER HERE! WE KNOW YOU'RE EVIL!
Director Lady: LOL
Charlie: *die*
Theresika: Hey, Moira.
Moira: RAAAAA!
Theresika: *die*
Graham: I am so over you.
Moira: Stop looking at me!
Joe: Whoa, that bitch is crazy.
Graham: Moira, I was wrong, baby. *dies after falling 8 feet*
Janet: You're such a bitch!
Moira: *die*
Joe: We made it, Janet. Let's have a cocktail.
Janet: *die*
Joe: I win.
Mark and Kat: WTF?! Where'd we get this car?!
Janet, Moira, Graham, Theresika, Bill, Charlie: PSYCH! Peekaboo!
Driver: AHHHHH!
Janet, Moira, Graham, Theresika, Bill, Charlie: D'oh!

Look, we're not angry. We could be, but we're not. It was a diversion during the lighter months of the summer and for the most part, it managed to hold our attention. Of course, part of the reason it held our attention is because we were promised that the whole story would be wrapped up by the end of the summer. Repeatedly. Obviously, that was never the intention. Given that NBC essentially burned off the last 4 episodes in a one-week period, we think it's safe to say the ratings aren't going to warrant a Season 2.

Well, it remains to be seen if they do go on to Level 2.

[SilverMiniCooperS]

Well, if it does warrant a level two, I for one will not be watching. What a gyp.

[ukus]

Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh

I know how you feel.

I did have fun reading Juana's T&L link though ..... hysterical!