A_Different_Drummer Think the current IMDb rating is pretty much on the money. The (no longer in production) show is better than some, worse than others. The most common problem with these "high concept" shows that come (and go, like the wind) is that the first episode -- usually the one that sold the pilot to the network -- is good, often great, but the followup, the notion of running the same extended story week to week is, well, not so much...Another issue (aside from carrying the story) is the cast. On paper they look like an interesting fit. In real life ... not so much. In fact, it is hard to imagine a cast with less internal chemistry. The irony of course is that the story REQUIRES them to be uncomfortable with being "drafted" (press-ganged) into this shoebox of a storyline so you could argue that the acting matches the story...? Uncomfortable on paper. Uncomfortable on camera. But the bottom line is that they all look like they would rather be somewhere else. Spiner especially.Gugino is a breath of fresh air. Highly charismatic with a face that seems to change from frame to frame depending on the camera angle. Liked her work in Watchmen. She tries hard, often carries the entire production, but it is just not enough.

primacag-219-477782 The poor cast was stranded with a bad script that barely made them human and always treated them as caricatures. The science in the fiction was stupid and unrealistic. Maybe hiring writers that know some science would have helped. The show bumbled along from one simplistic plot that showed the best talents the world has to offer as idiots barely coping with the situations the writers put them in. No wonder it didn't last a full season. Now, because there is a requirement that I write enough about this to fill ten lines I will go on the way the shows writers did writing about nothing to fill in the space. Maybe this is enough?

equazcion Gotta love that line... (by Ramsey, after sleeping with an infectee).Anyway, like many of the other posters, I just found out about this series after it was canceled (5 years afterwards, for me), decided to check it out, and ended up spending the subsequent 24 hours glued to the screen watching the episodes back-to-back. I came across it because I was looking into who created FlashForward, a newer sci-fi series currently running, and found out that executive producer Brannon Braga also created this series.Ironically, Threshold is roughly 50 times the quality of FlashForward, but the latter has already survived a few more episodes than the former, and is showing more popularity. Since I never even heard of Threshold at the time when it was airing, I can only assume its failure was due to poor marketing and probably premature fear among network executives due to the initial low ratings. If given a second season I think this could've been a very successful cult series along the lines of The X-Files (though probably not to the same level, only because The X-Files set such an impossible bar).The story elements are smart, and based on what seem to be a real degree of professional scientific consultation, resulting in actual plausibility and realism; whereas most primetime sci-fi action nowadays plays it pretty dumb and melodramatic, probably because they don't think the primetime audience can handle anything more.It's not perfect. There are many "state-the-obvious" moments in the dialog. Nevertheless, the chemistry is there: character development, production values, and especially the acting worked deliciously well together and made for a show that was clearly ripe for success. Special mention goes to Peter Dinklage and Brent Spiner, who really struck me with their line deliveries. It's really painful to see such potential cut off when it had barely gotten started. Network execs need to re-evaluate their views of the cult market, and realize that smart TV series can probably bring more prestige to a network than those safe-yet-silly little fly-by-night, after-school-special, cheap-CGI sci-fi soap-opera medleys they currently choose to back.

rogerrey So what gives with the program administrators? Another great piece of speculative writing slashed off the network. maybe it's too close to the mark, what with home security snatching people of the sidewalk and interrogating them with no warrant or formal documentation. Scary. Also there's no fuzzy nice bits, no easygoing nice guys. It's tough and rugged with no prospects of solutions or "humanity will find a way out" scenarios. Yeah - what do you do if aliens decide to take the world and their technology is so far advanced it looks like magic? We'd be pretty well 'stuffed'. Edgy, uncomfortable, questioning. All the things the programmers think we can't take or understand. How wrong can they be?