Silver Archive #8 – Millennium

“The time is now.”Millennium is the greatest show you’ve never watched — and its second season may well be one of the most perfect seasons of television ever made. Although created by the same team that struck lightning in a bottle with The X-Files, Millennium is at once more personal and larger than anything its sister show managed. By turns experimental, visually striking, apocalyptic and occasionally downright hilarious, Millennium explored the cultural fears of a changing America in the late 1990s. With fears of a looming apocalypse, the rise of serial killers, cults and the evolving nature of religion, the series stood at the intersection of cultural fears between the twentieth century and 9/11 — and predicts a devastating worldwide pandemic.