Millennium is easily one of the best shows of the 90s, the fans still shout loud for a comeback and once you watch this series you can see why, it's dark but beautifully shot with a sense of dread and a sinister feeling running through which keeps you hooked, the acting is superb and it just keeps getting better episode by episode. You can feel the X- Files touch in this show but it always stands as its own creation.... Millennium is worth being in anyone's collection but with only three seasons it does leave you feeling like what could of been, but what we do have is a strangely haunting and dark show that just might make a comeback and if it does I for one will be extremely happy.

Just a couple of thoughts to add to the other reviews.It's been a few years since I watched my DVD set from start to finish. I gave up on the series after the infamous Kiss Halloween episode "Thirteen Years Later" in October of 1998. Even so, Millennium will always represent a unique time of change in my life /sappiness alert, when my wife and I first began dating and living together. So when the DVD sets came out, I figured it was my chance to finally finish the series, as well as fill in any episodes from Season 1 that I had missed.I've always been of the school who considers Season 2 far and away the best. 15 years later, I still feel the same way. It was among the gutsiest, most riveting seasons of television I can ever remember. Sometimes a serialized work of art just hits its stride, and that happened with Millennium, especially during the second half of Season 2. Somewhere around "Somehow Satan Got Behind Me", Millennium really became can't-miss television, and kept it up right until the season finale. I will never forget the end of "The Fourth Horseman", in which Peter Watts (the wonderful Terry O'Quinn, since graduated to "Lost" stardom) predicts a 4:13 AM earthquake to the stunned Frank Black. Then it happens! HOW??? To say I was salivating for Season 3 would be an understatement. Then the series let me down, as it seems to have let down many commenters. But an episode like "Satan" still stands on its own, and would probably make my list of Greatest Television Hours Ever. (Others, in case you care: Next Generation's "Yesterday's Enterprise"; UFO's "Mindbender"; Star Trek's "Doomsday Machine".) One last anecdote. When I was looking up the DVD sets to purchase, I found a Millennium cancellation rant (since gone missing) in which the writer said that he still misses Frank Black as a person and friend. So much so, that every time he spots a red Jeep Cherokee on the road -- especially the mid-90s model Frank drove -- he would say out loud, "I miss Frank Black", and mean it with all his heart. To this day, I still do the same thing.

Few shows make me feel deep emotion (Final episode of Quantum Leap-Anger. Final Star Trek:TNG- Sad.) The pilot episode of Millennium made me feel something else, scared crap-less. The image of a living body, with eyes and mouth sewn up buried alive in a shallow grave gave me nightmares for weeks, but also started the making of one hell of a TV series. The 'sister' series of the X Files, Millennium was the scariest TV show to date and ever. With Frank Black (Lance Henriksen/Bishop from Ailens) as the man who could "See what the killer sees." I know, not a completely original idea, but the story lines were top notch and the disturbing images made you come back for more. It revolved around the millennium group and the year 2000, which was good for 1996, but once it got closer the threat got bigger. It kept the fans till the last season where (sadly) it became a lot like the x files and became painful to watch. But still all and all a good little series. DON'T WATCH IT ALONE IN THE DARK! SO invite a friend over, turn on all the lights and curl up with a good scare.

Basically this is about code breaking. All religions are the mother of theology is about breaking the codes. This is a show about breaking the codes shown in the cracks between profane life, the soul and the scrapheap antimatter in between.It is a pity that this show followed after The X-Files and was compared to it. Most criticism this show has gotten comes from people who don't seem to understand it. It's one of those shows you understand very little of if you don't see all episodes and that is just great.Personally I can't stand TV-series with one evening resolutions like that godawful CSI or relentless crap like "lawyer shows".Apart from all the brilliant TV-series made by HBO Millennium is one of those shows I real hate not being able to watch anymore. In fact it's so good and one of those shows you wish you never saw so you could see it anew.I am a high school teacher and teach religion, I spent three and a half years in the theological faculty and wrote me bachelors degree about the end of the world, i.e. apokalytica. The studies about the myths of the end of the world. Millennium digs down in the huge pile of myths and present a true and horryfying version of it set in modern society and really makes me remember the collective anxiety regarding the coming of the new millennia. The illness of the world and what aisle the human psyche is constant in the show and it makes you feel uncomfortable. TV4 in Sweden, like most of the time managed, to screw this show up, by airing it on different times or around midnight workdays and changing the airing days - their trailer for the show said it was about a former cop hunting serial killers. It's not, it's about the hunt for the truth in the obscure and sometimes the bizarre. The Swedish public expected to see a cop show and soon turned away thus banning it to airing times 2 o'clock in the morning between a Monday and tuseday.There are some episodes and elements that'll stick to you. As many others have said the episode namned The Curse of Frank Black is amazing. The scene in the lodge when the plague hits is also very good. Legion is a scary figure and sometimes it's presence makes me think of the best show ever on TV Twin Peaks.The Millennium group and the webs of conspiracies leaves the viewer with intellectual speculation and that is how I want to be left after viewing a show and not with some damn fingerpointining and sugarcoated morality Hoartio Caine style.Why this show was canceled is a damn shame but it's understandable. Most people are not into active viewing, they want sitcoms, reality shows and cop shows, but I tip my hat to the creators of Millennium and celebrate their work because we, who like to think for ourselves, should have som shows to watch too.