Alcatraz and Touch – reviews

  • Dear ladies and gents,

    between Sherlock, Downton Abbey and Jo Nesbø I had plenty to watch and read in my spare time.But this week I managed to watch Alcatraz and Touch, down below are the reviews.




    Alcatraz     – well it has finally arrived. It seems they have been teasing it forever! And if first three episodes are anything to go on, it didn’t disappoint. Obvs I love seeing Jorge Garcia on a weekly basis again. Even though he hasn’t said Dude once I am still fond of him. Then there is Sam Neill, who well… it’s Sam bleedin Neill, enough said. Parminder Nagra seems like the most intriguing character but Sarah Jones was a revelation as the totally kick ass detective who gets roped into the whole thing after she learns her grandad was an inmate at Alcatraz rather than the guard as she previously thought.

    So the story is that Alcatraz was closed. Only it didn’t really happen. Both the inmates and the guards have disappeared. And now they have started showing up in the present day and they still look the same and they haven’t aged a bit. The pilot was intriguing enough. But it usually takes me a few episode to get hooked. And I have to report that after episode three I am eager to find out what happens next. Where did they go? Why didn’t they age? What did they do to them? And who did whatever they did to them… it looks promising. And hopefully numbers will be good enough so Fox won’t cancel it before the writers manage to weave the story properly.





    Now on to Touch. I didn’t know much about Touch apart from that it stars Kiefer Sutherland. And that his kid can predict the future. But that was all. I am not the biggest Kiefer Sutherland fan (I maybe watched 2 or 3 episodes of 24 in total). So this was more of a watchonwhim kind of thing. And I was pleasantly surprised by the storytelling. I really was. Kiefer Sutherland plays a dude who is a former journalist and whose wife died during 9/11. He is left caring for their son who doesn’t speak at all. But the boy is obsessed with numbers. In the end it turns out… well I don’t want to give stuff away I think you are better off knowing as little as possible about what the show is about. It’s a story that spans the continents and I thought it was rather uplifting.

    Then I saw the credits – Tim Kring is the series creator. Which so explains it – I mean the story is truly great. But Tim Kring did the same thing with Heroes. Remember how great Heroes was in the beginning? Before it got turned into an incoherent, rambling mess with too many characters and too many storylines. I can only hope the same thing won’t happen to Touch. I can only hope that there will be someone designated to reel the bugger in before he gets too… ambitious? Because it is a great story.


    So tell me dear ladies and gents, have you seen Alcatraz? Or Touch? What did you think?


    January 27th, 2012 | bertas | 2 Comments |

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