a5c7b9f00b Switching between eras, Alcatraz focuses on the Alcatraz prison, which was shut down in 1963 due to unsafe conditions for its prisoners and guards. The show&#39;s premise is that both the prisoners and the guards disappeared in 1963 and have abruptly reappeared in modern-day San Francisco, where they are being tracked down by a government agency. On March 21, 1963, the inmates and guards at Alcatraz prison mysteriously disappear. To cover up the problem, the government reports to the public that the prison has been closed because of unsafe conditions. A secret government unit was set-up to find the prisoners. Now, in the present-day, the inmates begin returning - unaged and unaware of where they have spent the missing decades - and continue their criminal ways. They are acting out of character and appear to be searching for specific objects. A federal agent employs a police officer and a conspiracy theory novelist to help track them down. After watching a few episodes, I think the show is a keeper…for now. When I first heard Fox was developing a story like this, I literally laughed and thought they were crazy. My opinion has changed. <br/><br/>If you liked X-Files or Cold Case you will like the show. I get that vibe from the show. The show&#39;s developing story line brings you back to the 1960&#39;s to where it all started. The story starts 3 years before the inmates disappear. You get the feeling there are sinister actions in taking place well before the disappearances occur.<br/><br/>Sam Neill and Jorge Garcia are great in this. I would even gofar to say Johnny Coyne is great too. Johnny Coyne plays the warden and he puts evilness at another level.<br/><br/>The show will only get better if Sarah Jones&#39; acting gets better. She is the main detective and you can tell she has that &quot;made for TV&quot; background. Right now the inmates roles are very limited. I hope these inmates get extended actionthe series continues. Early criminals dropped off in present day. It will be very predictable. Make them less so. I have now watched 4 whole episodes so I thought I&#39;d say my two cents.<br/><br/>As the title suggests this reminds me a lot of Fringe in that it has random characters put together in a fictitious scenario that tries to blend the real world with the sci-fi one. It&#39;s still early days but the characters and the story can be honed to something that can last a while but we will know more by the end of the season. Thankfully this is nothing like Lost in that we know the basic story and we slowly learn more and more, hopefully to get some answers by the end of the season. I like Fringe because it has an underlying story-line but every episode has its own case which can be seen (and enjoyed) individually. Lost &#39;lost me&#39; in the second season and I was glad I didn&#39;t stick to it because I would have waisted lots of time to get answers 7 years later, which turned out to be ill-thought to say the least! This series is worth watching and giving it some time if you like sci-fi interspersed with police work (real or TV dramatised)wellgood settings and a bit of mystery, though not too muchto make you lose interest. The characters are there for a reason and they seem to be mono-dimensional so they grow through the series and the different cases though to avid TV fans of a cross-section of genres these things become obvious. Whereas to &quot;hardcore&quot; fans of sci-fi who think that they are comic book heroes/villains/authors then this will be a let down just like everything else that is not their idea!<br/><br/>–––––––––––– The spoiler bit! ––––––––––––<br/><br/>Finally, I would just like to say that JJ Abrams is the executive producer and not the creator so the comparisons with Lost are unavoidable but he is not the decision maker on the scenario (thankfully in my opinion!) If this is anything like Fringe then we will know why the 63&#39;s have time-travelled and how within a couple of seasons but there will still be a lot of work to be done (catching them, catching the brains behind the operation etc). If this was Lost then we would wait till season 7 to find out that it was all a comic that doc came up with and he was thinking of the whole thinghe was writing it but it never happened!
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