I second that emotion. Of all the second season episodes, this may be the one where I most feel the Frank/Catherine relationship. And the "trick bag" scene with the group. And Brion James. Yeah, if I wanted to convince someone that we should be glad Millennium was on the air, I'd show them "Luminary."

X-Files about traditional monsters don't always work. "3" was pretty dull, despite an effective performance from Frank Military. And God knows the record of comedic episodes not written by Darin Morgan is spotty. But "Bad Blood" does really knock it out of the park. The idea of a vampire who's not the sexy beast…

Ahem.

Silent Rage
Is that anything like Silent But Deadly?

The problem with the sixth season for me was that the Georgia Rae Mahoney storyline took up too much time and was too melodramatic. Also Kellerman is by this point so off-the-rails crazy and assholish that he should have been taken off the force a lot sooner than he was. (Not in real life, maybe, but as Mark Twain…

Also had the X-Files from 93 to 96 and Nillennium up til mid 99.

Tucker Smallwood
Here's a tie to the X-Files. In "Home", Smallwood's character was Sheriff Andy Taylor, an obvious shoutout to the Andy Griffith Show. Here he has the same name as James Brolin's character on Marcus Welby, MD.

Let's meet our players…
The cast—stipulating that Elisha Cuthbert is the weak reed so far—is definitely Happy Endings' secret weapon. I got to like Casey Wilson on SNL, so she was the reason I first started watching. She's lived up to, sometimes exceeded my expectations. Adam Pally I didn't know at all, and Max has…

Midnight of the Century.
This link (http://millennium-thisiswho… gives some background on how Kay Reindl and Erin Maher wrote the script for this episode. I like Maher's assertion that it's the kind of Christmas you end up with, rather than the kind you'd really want.

It's a shame that Morgan and Wong never did the killer doll concept while they were associated with the show. It's the kind of idea that benefits from the approach in "Die Hand die Verletzt" and "Home": sort of funny at the beginning, really scary later on. As distinguished from "Chinga", which tries to be funny all…

That is the genius of Spader.

That was my objection too. In fact for the most part Jim was pretty useless tonight. If he couldn't reign Gabe in, he should have thrown him under the bus, as Gabe so richly deserves. Instead it was Kelly, of all people, who had to do the heavy lifting.

"First Person Shooter" is as bad as anything the X-Files ever put forth, which, I don't know, maybe they were afraid to edit William Gibson? "Audrey Pauley", one of the few season 9 episodes I've seen, sucks just as bad.

This is how it will all end. Not with floods, earthquakes, falling comets or giant crabs walking the earth. No, doomsday will start simply out of indifference.

I thought Kitsunegari had some nice touches, particularly the recurring "He had to go" line. It was watchable where "Pusher" had been memorable.

I heard…
Hot Rod's joint "I Like to Fuck" featuring none other than Tila Tequila. Honestly it didn't do music or sex any favors. So if this song causes Osama to climb out of the ocean and resume his evildoing career, don't say you weren't warned.

Ann
This has been the first episode of the season where I really liked Ann. Between Mark's leaving, her dating Chris, and the "turn the pit into a park" plot being dropped, her stories have all been based around her serial monogamy, which gets old fast.

Ghosts
There's another dimension to Widdle Frank Black telling Dean Winters that there's no such thing as ghosts. Not to spoil too much about the upcoming Christmas episode with Darren McGavin, but Frank has reason to reassess.

Yeah, that's Bill for you. At least on the Internet someone would be around to tell him he's being a dick. As Zack points out, that never happens on the show.

I'm sure I didn't notice how meaty Jeong's "part" was.