Molly Anne Caffrey (Carla Gugino) is a government contingency agent whose job is to create response plans for any possible worse-case scenario. One of her plans - THRESHOLD - is enacted by J.T. Baylock when the U.S. Navy realizes an "extra terrestrial craft" has landed in the mid-Atlantic ocean.… More Caffrey must hand-select a team of scientists - consisting of Dr. Nigel Fenway (Brent Spiner) - a NASA microbiologist, Lucas Pegg (Rob Benedict) - a neurotic physicist, Arthur Ramsey (Peter Dinklage) - an expert linguist and mathematician, and Sean Cavennaugh (Brian Van Holt) - a highly trained covert operative with a puzzling past. Threshold stems from the minds of producers David Heyman, David Goyer, and Brannon Braga.
Molly Anne Caffrey (Carla Gugino) is a government contingency agent whose job is to create response plans for any possible worse-case scenario. One of her plans - THRESHOLD - is enacted by J.T. Baylock when the U.S. Navy realizes an "extra terrestrial craft" has landed in the mid-Atlantic ocean.… More Caffrey must hand-select a team of scientists - consisting of Dr. Nigel Fenway (Brent Spiner) - a NASA microbiologist, Lucas Pegg (Rob Benedict) - a neurotic physicist, Arthur Ramsey (Peter Dinklage) - an expert linguist and mathematician, and Sean Cavennaugh (Brian Van Holt) - a highly trained covert operative with a puzzling past. Threshold stems from the minds of producers David Heyman, David Goyer, and Brannon Braga.
Molly Anne Caffrey (Carla Gugino) is a government contingency agent whose job is to create response plans for any possible worse-case scenario. One of her plans - THRESHOLD - is enacted by J.T. Baylock when the U.S. Navy realizes an "extra terrestrial craft" has landed in the mid-Atlantic ocean.… More Caffrey must hand-select a team of scientists - consisting of Dr. Nigel Fenway (Brent Spiner) - a NASA microbiologist, Lucas Pegg (Rob Benedict) - a neurotic physicist, Arthur Ramsey (Peter Dinklage) - an expert linguist and mathematician, and Sean Cavennaugh (Brian Van Holt) - a highly trained covert operative with a puzzling past. Threshold stems from the minds of producers David Heyman, David Goyer, and Brannon Braga.
Molly Anne Caffrey (Carla Gugino) is a government contingency agent whose job is to create response plans for any possible worse-case scenario. One of her plans - THRESHOLD - is enacted by J.T. Baylock when the U.S. Navy realizes an "extra terrestrial craft" has landed in the mid-Atlantic ocean.… More Caffrey must hand-select a team of scientists - consisting of Dr. Nigel Fenway (Brent Spiner) - a NASA microbiologist, Lucas Pegg (Rob Benedict) - a neurotic physicist, Arthur Ramsey (Peter Dinklage) - an expert linguist and mathematician, and Sean Cavennaugh (Brian Van Holt) - a highly trained covert operative with a puzzling past. Threshold stems from the minds of producers David Heyman, David Goyer, and Brannon Braga.
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There is joy and there is sadeness. The joy is that this series is pretty intense from the get go. It has a flawed team, it has challenges and in the end it has only one season to show.
I cannot say why, however in the end, it all feels like people getting out because of ratings.
These producers always forget the story of star trek. cancelled after three seasons because of ratings. It because the most succesful sci-fi serie, running in syndication for decades. good gravyu train i say.
Threshold could have gone likewise. it has the drive, the writing, the acting and the setting. It feels like such a shame, because Threshold was already good in season 1, it could have been great in season 2. Alas.
A nice sci-fi show with Carla Gugino hide show
The story lines revolve around the Threshold protocols - a 'worse-case scenario' overseen by Molly Caffrey, who specializes in creating responses to everything from atomic attacks to the plague. Each episode got more and more involved, blending more characters and beefing up the plot. Carla Gugino, as Molly, is, as usual, brilliant, beautiful, sexy and oh so smart. Every episode was edge of the seat with wonderful comedy tucked here and there. It is a scary and incredibly suspenseful thriller with a brilliant display of character involvement in the plot. That was a good show, at least CBS allow them to finish the plot.
Amazing, mind blowing, out of this world.. I could go on till the end of time. This show is one of the best shows i've watched and it comes 2nd after Invasion on my top ten most best shows ever watched in my entire life! hide show
This show was one of the best shows storywise. The story was so unique who ever came up with it (I'll hunt you down on Wikipedia don't you worry :) ) is a bloody genius!
Its really hard finding a entirely unique SciFi show.. that hasn't been be-headed by the network execs (insert anger here).
This show is dead and will stay dead no matter what anyone says including myself. However, I can't stop but think, why not make a movie to wrap up all loose ends with this movie? It did the trick with Firefly, why not for Threshold? I bet my bottom dollar hell I'll bet my life on it that the movie would be a huge hit purely cause of the unique story!! But it all depends who will get to direct the movie and if its Georg Lucas.. then don't bother >.>
If only I was an Exec for a major television network!! hide show
I can't believe there is a 100 word minimum for placing a review on this site. That is ridiculous, what if my review ends up being only 70 words, I clearly state my opions and views in less then 100 words.... then I must BS the rest and just bable on like I am doing now! I am only at 60 words.....
I still believe they should bring back Threshold! It was a very well thought out show that may have been complicated to follow for some, however for those who could and did follow it, it had the potential to develope into an amazing series. I still think if they wanted to they could give it another chance or atleast give it to another network and let them reincarnate it. Bottom Line is.... Bring it Back!!!
An alien show that keeps up an interesting story throughout without becoming cliche. hide show
This is a show that definitely should have had a long run. It was an interesting idea because the aliens weren't little gray men, but were instead people who were changing into aliens. This difference makes it a unique show in many ways, and it could have been developed into a very interesting story.
What probably didn't help this TV show is that sci-fi has a pretty limited audience base. This type of show, unless absurdly unique or having a big name attached to it (J.J. Abrams or Joss Whedon) they tend not to do extremely well on a lot of the basic cable channels.
However, this one had potential as they had a solid group of characters. It probably didn't help that there wasn't any real romance in the story line to catch in the average drama viewer. There possibly were a few hints of it, but with the characters it really couldn't have been developed. I don't mind this fact at all as I enjoyed it as a sci-fi drama, but for commercial reasons, it probably would have helped.
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