Unthoughts Unknown: Don't Piss On...

"The Edge", the second episode of the new Persons Unknown series, I thought was largely better than the first episode.  The pilot basically set up the situation and gave broad strokes toward the characters, this second episode gave us more showing the characters actually trying to deal a wee bit more with the situation.  It's also nice that we've finally got names for some of them, although I still think most of the relevant information on surface character background should have been related at their first dinner together.  Details and backstory naturally coming later, but it seemed like the usual introductions were only half-delivered.  The "microwave" fence, blinding white light, and driving back into the town after trying to esxape definitely gave off more vibes from The Prisoner, as well as Dark City.  The night manager and the Chinese restaurant waiter are also officially creepy.

Unthoughts Unknown

I caught the pilot episode of NBC's Persons Unknown tonight.  I thought it was a decent entry into The Prisoner/first-season of Lost/Cube vein of storytelling, with a group of strangers waking up in a deserted hotel in an initially deserted town with no recollection of how or why they got there.  I think the cameras themselves are the interesting part, some sort of black market reality television is what I'm thinking right now.

I did, however, catch a continuity error between the episode and the preview for next week.  When we're shown Eleanor's fortune cookie message in the episode, "Kill your neighbor and you will go free", is on one line.  In the preview, it's on two.  I wonder how many months went by between filming the pilot and starting the reason of the series to cause that gaffe?