‘V’: Upsetting the apple cart

by Jace Lacob

“Don’t trust anybody.”

Like “Battlestar Galactica,” “V” imagines a world where no one is quite what they seem, where everyone you encounter — whether stranger, lover, co-worker — could be an enemy. After all, when the enemy you’re fighting looks just like you, how can you tell your friends from your foes? <Read the full article>

V Review: There is No Normal Anymore

by Brian Salisbury

Let me start by commending our rejects who regularly review television shows; not easy work.  Personally I find reviewing television shows week to week like trying to review a film after watching only twenty minutes of it.  Sure, ideally it’s compartmentalized enough that the task is not terribly different.  Too bad nobody told V not to make this process seem so alien.  Puns!  If you hearken back into the annals of FSR history, a week ago, you’ll remember that I was none too fond of the pilot episode.  It was a forty-eight minute train wreck with a strangely encouraging finale.  Will episode two mark the beginning of a tremendous comeback?  Or is this miniseries headed into new frontiers of ineptitude? <Read the article>

‘V’ Episode 1.02: ‘There Is No Normal Anymore’

by Josh Wigler

Don’t Trust Anyone: Tonight’s episode reinforced the theme that everybody is suspect — after all, if you can’t trust Alan Tudyk’s face, then who can you trust? <Read full article>

‘V’ – There Is No Normal Anymore

by Jenn Falls

The number of people that can be trusted may be dropping, but the resistance is growin.

After all of the action at the warehouse, Erica (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Father Jack (Joel Gretsch) are left to consider what to do next. Even though Erica calls 9-1-1, the Visitors (V’s) ominously intercept it leading us to the same conclusion that Erica gives to Father Jack when she leaves him – trust no one. <Read full article>

TV Review: V,”There is No Normal Anymore”

by Rabid Nick Refer

The new ABC Sci-fi drama V returned for it’s second installment and picked up directly where the first left off. Although it didn’t suffer from similar pacing issues as the pilot, the second episode didn’t exactly expand much into anything worth raving about either. What is very interesting, however, is the drama the prime-time event is causing in our own world, outside of the fictional television setting. <Read full article>

V S1E2: “There Is No Normal Anymore”

by Troy Brownfield

I’m happy to say that after last week’s strong start, the momentum didn’t diminish.  In fact, I think that it was enormously helpful to start the episode mere seconds after the conclusion of the first one.  We even had FBI Counterterrorist Agent Erica Evans (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Father Jack (Joel Gretsch) still engaged in the same conversation. <Read full article>

V: V is for Meh

by Paul Secrest

PPM, or Post-Pilot Malaise, is a condition affecting infant stage television programs. Its symptoms are marked by the presence of a series premiere so ambitious that either the writers feel the need to give the characters a week to process their thoughts or sometimes the producers realize that after said pilot, there’s only enough cash left in the budget for low grade exposition. In most cases symptoms only last a week, but V has definitely caught itself the PPM bug and the patient requires further observation. <Read full article>

TV Recap: V: There Really Isn’t Normal Anymore!

by Sheldon A. Wiebe

The second episode of V opens literally seconds after the conclusion of the premiere with Father Jack and Erica sitting on that roof. A V shuttle flies by and the follow it to the scene of the underground’s meeting. The aliens are cleaning up – removing all the bodies, including Erica’s late partner, Dale’s. Erica calls 911 from a nearby payphone [we still have those?] but the call is intercepted by the V’s who sent a flying metal globe after them. As it closes in, it sprouts nasty-looking spikes, but Erica destroys it with a major league swing of an improvised club. She and Father Jack go home. They can’t take the V’s on directly. <Read full article>

Review: There Is No Normal Anymore

by Aidan Brack

Having opened last week with a fast paced pilot episode, “There Is No Normal Anymore” has the difficult task of managing expectations and beginning the transition from opening to series. Fortunately although the episode is less gripping than the pilot it does enough to sustain interest, shifts pace comfortably and proves that the show should work as a running series. This is no small feat. <Read full article>

V episode 2 review

by Ron Hogan

One of the elements of V that I find myself really enjoying as we go into the second episode is the paranoia. Really, one of the things the show has done incredibly well with the sleeper alien cell angle is establish that pretty much anyone can, and just might be, a Visitor. I mean, in the first episode we had two surprising reveals of various Visitors, so it’s obvious that V is living by the old Joe Bob Briggs Drive-In Rules, except replace “Anybody can die at any moment” with “Anybody can be a secret lizard”. <Read full article>