Product Details

• Actors: Lance Henriksen
• Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, Closed-captioned
• Language: English, Spanish, French
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 18
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: October 28, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001CY5N00
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,106 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Bonus Features: Season 1: Disc 1: **Millenium Season 1 Episodes (Disc 1) *Pilot with Commentary by Creator/Writer/Executive Producer Chris Carter *Gehenna with Commentary by Director David Nutter *Dead Letters

Disc 2: **Millenium Season 1 episodes (Disc 2) *Kingdom Come *Blood Relatives

Disc 3: **Millenium Season 1 episodes (Disc 3) **Wide Open *The Wild and the Innocent *Weeds *Loin Like a Hunting Flame

Disc 4: **Millenium Season 1 episodes (Disc 4) *Force Majeure *The Thin White Line *Sacrament *Covenant

Disc 5: **Millenium Season 1 episodes (Disc 5) *Walkabout *Lamentation *Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions *Broken World

Disc 6: **Millenium Season 1 episodes (Disc 6) *Maranatha *Paper Dove

Season 2: Disc 7: **Millenium Season 2 episodes (Disc 1) *The Beginning and the End *Beware of the Dog *Sense and Antisense *Monster

Disc 8: **Millenium Season 2 episodes (Disc 2) *A Single Blade of Grass *The Curse of Frank Black *The Hand of Saint Sebastian *The Hand of Saint Sebastian Commentary by Tom Wright

Disc 9: **Millenium Season 2 episodes (Disc 3) *Jose Chungâ??s Doomsday Defense *Midnight of the Century (Holiday) *Goodbye Charlie *Luminary

Disc 10: **Millenium Season 2 episodes (Disc 4) *The Mikado *The Pest House *Owls *Roosters *The Mikado Commentary by Michael R. Perry

Disc 11: **Millenium Season 2 episodes (Disc 5) *Siren *In Arcadia *Ego *Anamnesis *A Room with No View

Disc 12: **Millenium Season 2 episodes (Disc 6) *Somehow *Satan Got Behind Me *The Fourth Horseman *The Time is Now

**The Turn of the Tide: Making of Season 2 **Academy Group: Victimology

Season 3: Disc 13: **Millenium Season 3 episodes (Disc 1) *The Innocents (Commentary by Lance Henrickson and Klea Scott) *Exegesis *Teotwawki *Closure

Disc 14: **Millenium Season 3 episodes (Disc 2) *...Thirteen Years Later (KISS) *Skull and Bones *Through A Glass, Darkly *Human Essence

Disc 15: **Millenium Season 3 episodes (Disc 3) *Omerta *Borrowed Time *Collateral Damage (Commentary by Tom Wright) *The Sound of Snow

Disc 16: **Millenium Season 3 episodes (Disc 4) *Anitpas *Matryoshka *Forcing the End *Saturn Dreaming of Mercury

Disc 17: **Millenium Season 3 episodes (Disc 5) *Darwin's Eyes *Bardo Thodol *Seven and One *Nostalgia

Disc 18: **Millenium Season 3 episodes (Disc 6) *Via Dolorosa *Goodbye To All That *X-Files "Millennium" episode from Season 7

**End Game: The Making of Millennium Season 3 & Between the Lines

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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MIDNIGHT OF THE CENTURY, September 9, 2008

By	Mr. B. Renshaw (ENGLAND) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

***spoilers follow***

MILLENNIUM is at first a product of its times, a manifestation of the mid to late nineties fear of what Y2K could bring. Its easy to look back now in hindsight and dismiss millennial tension as group hysteria, but there were a great many people who had serious concerns of what could happen, and looked for answers

It's also easy to dismiss its innovative mature and sombre tone when it has been copied to lesser effect in the last ten years with other procedural shows like CSI and COLD CASE.

Chris Carter concieved MILLENNIUM to be like the feature films SILENCE OF THE LAMBS or SEVEN but on a weekly format. No aliens or govermental conspiracies like his X-FILES, but a psychological exploration of the nature of evil, of one man's ability to see into the thought processes of the worst of humanity. Frank Black's gift was not psychic in nature but an accute understanding of the heart of darkness: "I become capability. I become the horror -- what we know we can become only in our heart of darkness. It's my gift. It's my curse. That's why I retired."

Lance Henrikson plays ex-FBI agent Frank Black perfectly, a man who was driven to a nervous breakdown when he realized he could no longer keep his family safe from the evil he was helping to fight. He only returns to work with the help of the Millennium Group and the support of his wife, who realises he can't just sit back and wait for a happy ending. Their symbolic yellow house becomes not just a sanctuary but a fragile treasure in Franks mind, one that is threatened as his investigations continue. Evil takes a personal interest in him, tempting him to join it, and we see the toll his resistence to that evil has on his life.

The psychological aspect is what I believe Chris Carter was more interested in, however when Season two began, Carter was concentrating on the first X Files movie, and X-Files script writers/producers Morgan and Wong took over. They moved the focus away from the psychological aspect and more onto the supernatural and mythological nature of the Millennium Group itself. Over that one season (instead of five whch would have been perhaps more believable as a narrative) the Group turned from a noble company of ex-law enforcement agents (like the real life Academy Group) into a fractured quasi-religious cult, founded at the time of Christ's crucifixtion, with an agenda to not just wait for an apocalypse but to pre-empt it. At the end of the second season, the writers introduced a deadly ebola-type virus, supposedly manufactured by the group itself, that apparently wipes out half the world, as well as claiming the life of Catherine Black. At the end of that season, the world has ended, and the writers effectively ruined the concept of the show.

Season three, back now in the hands of Chris Carter, starts off without making any real reference to the virus outbreak, with Frank back at the FBI, until a few episodes in when its revealed it was only a media panic over a few isolated cases rather than the real apocalypse. The SOUND OF SNOW is particulary a heart-wrenching episode where Frank finally deals with his wifes death. Try as they might, despite some exceptional work, the show never recovers from the loss of Megan Gallagher, the loss of the symbolism of the yellow house, or the change of Millennium Group to religious conspiracy cult. After the Group begin to execute those members deemed too dangerous to their agenda, Frank goes on the run with his daughter Jordan, driving down a road to an uncertain future. And the less said about the X-Files crossover episode the better.

These DVD's are still a must buy for any fan of dramatic storytelling, because even the worst episodes are better than 90% of current tv. If you like CSI, 24 and all of the other procedural shows, you'll like this. They're excellently put together with commentaries and documentaries, which especially give you a palpable sense of the frustration felt by the actors and Chris Carter of how great the show could have been if allowed to grow at its own pace. Regardless of its faults, MILLENNIUM is a special show, the level of acting and production elevating it over any inconsistancies of series narrative.

These DVD's have also helped bring the show to those who may have missed it, or were too young to have seen it first time round. Since the first episode was broadcast in 1996, it has garnered a growing and dedicated fan community, centered around the websites www.fourthhorsemanpress.com/Abyss and www.millennium-thisiswhoweare.net, and the forum at www.tiwwa.info.

Fans also created the first critically acclaimed Virtual Season, season 4, shortly after the shows cancellation, producing professionally written and formatted televsion scripts released on a weekly basis, in 1999. This was followed by Virtual Season 5 and and VS6 and 7 are concurrently in development, intending to give full closure to Frank Black's story that we never had the chance to see in the show.

All this highlights just how powerful a show MILLENNIUM was, and how relevant it still is. As Lance Henrikson says in the DVD documentary, he feels the show was unfulfilled, a missed opportunity. MILLENNIUM still haunts him.

MILLENNIUM will haunt you long after you've watched it, but for all the right reasons.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Killer Show, January 23, 2009

By	to the sun (MA) - See all my reviews

Sorry about the bad pun. But seriously, Chris Carter hit a home run with this dark saga which at its core is about a tormented man trying to balance good and evil in both his own and others' lives. Lance is brilliant in portraying our protagonist, Frank Black. I must say I do prefer Millenium to its predecessor, The X Files. (I know, I know, blasphemy) Something about the extremes to which this show goes; the severity of its ideology is mesmerizing. Each season does have its own flavor, but overall it is imperative to watch all the episodes in order to get the big picture (albeit a bleak one...)

Season One focuses more on the killer-of-the-week structure (that also came and went through The X Files as well). This season was the darkest and most horrific (and consequently quite the way to introduce viewers to the show!)

Season Two is my personal favorite. These episodes manage to lighten the load of terror and dread a wee bit and pose more metaphysical inquries; many of which find little or no resolve, leaving the viewer to construe their own meaning. (This is MUCH appreciated by engaged watchers...)

Season Three is like the big comedown after the high. While not bad by any means, it is a bit more tired (as is Frank at this point), relies a bit more on conventional crime solving (although the story arc does pervade this season as well.)
Overall, the series does not "end with a bang, but with a whimper"

People have mixed feelings on how the writers chose to end the dark drama, but the ambiguous nature of the show as a whole is what this reviewer thinks made it so special and welcoming to individual interpretations. Highly recommended to those willing to step into the dark closet and face some heavy issues.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FRANK BLACK is back!!!, November 25, 2008

By	Johnny Reb "John" (USA) - See all my reviews

I recently bought the Millennium complete DVD collection, and I love it! This show was one of the top 10 great series of all-time... It is too bad it ended with only three seasons. I remember watching this show when it was firat ran, and I even recored most of the show on video tape for future viewing.. Now I have the DVD collection and I can watch it to my hearts content... Now all I have to do is getthe X-Files complete collection and then I'll be set...

This is a must see show... Lance Henriksen was perfect choice to play Frank Black, a former FBI serial profiler who can "see" the world through the eyes of the killers he hunts.... This show dealt with serial killers, murderers, and endtimes conspirarcy make for pleanty of thought provoking entertainment!

A 100 percent must see!!!