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Soylent Green is People... THE TIME IS NOW, developed by the team who brought you The X-Cast: An X-Files Podcast, is dedicated to Chris Carter's dark TV series Millennium, which ran on the Fox network between 1996-1999. Each episode will recap and break down the investigations of gifted criminal profiler Frank Black, exploring the ins and outs of the show, with exclusive interviews with members of the production along the way. We hope you become part of our group. Remember... This Is Who We Are A proud part of the Film Stories Podcast Network: www.filmstories.co.uk
Frank Black's flashlight grip gets close reading; you know immediately if you're among friends.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A scene by scene case for why Manhunter still feels tense and unsettling.
The piece treats Manhunter as a lean crime film and keeps coming back to why it still works: the world feels lived in, while Lecter and Graham read like parallel minds separated by bars, choices, and empathy.
A careful discussion that makes the film's domestic dread feel immediate.
This episode stays close to the human scale of Se7en and Millennium, and that is where it works best. The hosts keep coming back to secrecy, domestic space, Catherine's tolerance of lies, Somerset's distance, and the way ordinary places can start to feel morally loaded.
A candid Millennium panel on evil, lawyers, and the uneasy reality behind making dark television.
A live Millennium panel from September 2023 has Chris Carter speaking with unusual candor about evil, lawyers, and what it costs to make television this dark.
Sharp TV arguments, faster than prestige can posture.
Star Trek commentary with the brakes off.
After the episode, inside the scene.
Classic Perry Mason, case by case.
A fannish map of Mindy’s TV universe.
Luke Winch and Tony Black analyze the 1986 film Manhunter, discussing its influence on later serial killer media like Millennium and Hannibal.
Simon and Russ Hugo frame “Seven in Seattle” as a comparison between David Fincher’s Seven and the Millennium pilot, not a straight film review.
Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, and Troy L.
Kurt North interviews Christopher Pilbeam, a writer for the 25 Years Later site who discovered Millennium in early 2021 through The X-Files and The X-Cast.
Tony Black and Carl Sweeney introduce a November 2021 Square Eyes Festival interview with Glenn Morgan about The X-Files episode Home and related Millennium work.
Kurt North and Russell Hugo provide a scene-by-scene commentary on Millennium's Halloween episode The Curse of Frank Black during The Time Is Now's 25th-anniversary specials.