FlashForward - Future Shock (S1Ep22)
And so after just a single season of 22 episodes flash forward comes to a close. Not that the producers noticed, ending the show with multiple cliffhangers and no closure. Does Mark survive? Can Janis escape the bad guys she double crossed? Will Demetri get back together with his fiancee? What did everyone see in their new flash forwards? Does anyone care?
Sadly, the answer to the last is a resounding no.
I gave up on the show about 5 episodes in, tired of every week hearing Mark whine about having a drink in 6 months and his wife whine about having an affair. God it was dull. I gave it another shot when it came back from mid season hiatus and found it greatly improved, if still littered with problems. Things generally improve when Joesph-I can only play over intense-Fiennes leaves the screen and John Cho enters. The finale in particular shows Fiennes at his ott best, strutting around the FBI with a shotgun and generally looking like a right prat. His dramatic phone call with his wife had me in stitches. The action itself was fun, if stolen directly from John Woo's Hard Boiled (an excellent action movie by the way, featuring the extremely charismatic Chow Yun-Fat who could blast Fiennes into next century while leaping out of an exploding building clutching a new born baby)
The last couple of episode have seen the show at it's rushed, logic defying worst. To be fair to the production team they did have two episodes taken away from them (never a good sign) making it neigh on impossible to tie up all the loose ends in the time they had left. In the end they went for shoving 2 fingers up at the audience and running for the hills.
And so ends FlashForward. Fun at times, dumb and confusing the rest. The lesson - don't let the guy who wrote and directed Blade 3 run your show.
2.5/5
