Story: Torchwoood: Miracle Day - The Categories of Life
Written By: Jane Espenson
Length: 60 Minutes
Year: 2011
Torchwood has (hopefully) its its stride in Miracle Day. This episode involves the major plot element of Overflow Camps, what they are for, and why PhiCorp is paying for them. It also introduces the Categories of Life, which categorize people into 3 sections of living...and its kinda scary.
Rex goes undercover into the camps, using his wounds as a mean to get entered into them, and begins to record what he sees on camera. At the same time Vera Juarez joins the team by using her medical panel status as a way to tour the facilities with a really creepy camp director. Unfortunately that guy is creepier than you think from first impressions (lets face it he was pretty creepy from the start)...and he shoots Vera twice and she plans to prosecute him for his poor running of the facility. He puts her in one of the modules and BLAM: she gets burned alive. It was a hell of a shocking end, and the creepy way humans have been pushed into Nazi-like territory is chilling to watch unfold.
One smaller storyline (in terms of screentime) involve Gwen heading back to Wales in order to remove her father from a camp...but unfortunately her plan leads him to have another heart attack, one more fatal than his last...and he gets moved to Category 1: thus the living dead. He is sent into a module himself.
The other smaller storyline involves Jack attempting to get Danes to use his Miracle Rally time slot to out PhiCorp...unfortunately Danes is a total creepy prick and does not out PhiCorp as evil, and manages to gain an even larger following from the looks of it.
Definitely a good episode, the best since the opener of the season. I hope this season keeps it up.
NEXT TIME: The Truth
Written By: Jane Espenson
Length: 60 Minutes
Year: 2011
Torchwood has (hopefully) its its stride in Miracle Day. This episode involves the major plot element of Overflow Camps, what they are for, and why PhiCorp is paying for them. It also introduces the Categories of Life, which categorize people into 3 sections of living...and its kinda scary.
One smaller storyline (in terms of screentime) involve Gwen heading back to Wales in order to remove her father from a camp...but unfortunately her plan leads him to have another heart attack, one more fatal than his last...and he gets moved to Category 1: thus the living dead. He is sent into a module himself.
The other smaller storyline involves Jack attempting to get Danes to use his Miracle Rally time slot to out PhiCorp...unfortunately Danes is a total creepy prick and does not out PhiCorp as evil, and manages to gain an even larger following from the looks of it.
Definitely a good episode, the best since the opener of the season. I hope this season keeps it up.
NEXT TIME: The Truth
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