SnoopyStyle In 1963, all the prisoners and guards mysteriously disappear from Alcatraz. In the present, they start resurfacing and a secret agency is tasked with re-capturing them. Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill) leads the group with technical help from Dr. Lucy Banerjee (Parminder Nagra). He recruits police detective Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones) and Alcatraz history expert Dr. Diego Soto (Jorge Garcia).The premise isn't quite nailed down fast enough. The show lighting is too dark. Every time there seemed to have signs of the show taking off. It takes a twist or we take a detour and we lose all the momentum. JJ Abrams puts his name on yet another show. It had some promise. The concept is fine but needed more development. Sarah Jones is a cutie but she's doing an angry act here. She never smiles and act extremely intense at all times. Jorge Garcia is injected in here but completely wasted.

mformoviesandmore What do you get if you mix a mildly interesting concept, a moderate script, banal dialogue, and discount actors?The answer is: Probably just one season.There is a secret underground room - with cells. A government agents - who is not what he seems.A young cop - who has a family connection to events.There is a geek.There is - no reason to keep going on.Probably no worse than watching CSI:mytown - unless you like your stories wrapped up in each episode.

webby-14 The somewhat sad review I have to give to this show is that despite fairly good acting and plenty of action the writers chose for some reason to leave it to pretty much the very last episode to give this show any depth. The storyline, had it been outlined from the beginning and developed throughout this show would have given the potential to push my vote from 6 up to 8 or even 9 but sadly that was not the case. Disappointing but the show just didn't reach its potential for me. But hey, the action was fairly good and the acting was fairly good so if you are happy with simplistic and unchallenging shows and you are able to forgive them for being a little nebulous in their plot development then Im sure you will enjoy the show. I did. I just think it was capable of being a lot more and found that a little disappointing.

tifummetre I had great expectations of the show.But I was very disappointed. What is it about? Not even to be considered a B-rate TV-crime-show!I do not really understand the concept.Am I supposed to write 10 lines? Sorry! This show does not deserve 10 lines. I have already written too much! This show sucks! There is no other short way to express it!OK! Here we go! The show sucks! The show sucks! The show sucks! The show sucks!Enough lines for you to get the message?