As much as it pains me to get sucked into yet another TV series, let alone one revolving around mysterious sci-fi occurrences, I caved and watched the premiere of ABC’s new series V. This is probably 2009’s hottest new show, right behind FlashForward, also on ABC. Sci-fi, has suddenly become cool. The series is a reboot of a miniseries of the same name that aired way back in 1983, and is produced by the same team behind another cult sci-fi series from a few years ago called The 4400.
The re-imagined version of the show essentially follows the same story as the original, involving aliens (referred to as V’s for visitors) who come to Earth claiming to be well-intentioned and peaceful (offering things like universal health care, how humorously political of the writers). Some people are welcoming and curious, taking tours of the ship and agreeing to aid the V’s by becoming peace ambassadors within their neighborhoods, while others are skeptical of the V’s intentions. The pilot episode doesn’t hold back on getting right into the crux of the story, bringing the principal cast together, and revealing that the skeptics just might have something to be very skeptical about.
The cast consists of some familiar faces such as Elizabeth Mitchell, best known from ABC’s Lost as Juliet, as Erica Evans, an FBI agent; Scott Wolf as Chad Decker, a TV news anchor who is offered to interview the V’s leader, Anna (Morena Baccarin); and Morris Chestnut as Ryan Nichols, a man who seems to have a history (more…)