TVSquad

You have to hand it to this show. Just when you think they're really stretching the kinds of plots for each episode - in this case, the alien signal is mixed into a song and a bunch of clubgoers are exposed to it - they do it with juuuuuust enough of  twist to keep it interesting. And touches like that and combine it with the fact that it has an enjoyable cast and you have one of the better sci/fi horror shows of the seasons (along with Surface, which is the best, and Supernatural, which is getting better).

What makes this oh-my-God-people-can-be-exposed- to-the-alien-signal-through-music plot so interesting is that they actually refer back to the pilot episode (don't you hate it when a show goes on and they don't even refer to stuff that's happened in previous episodes?). A girl's brother was on that ship whose crew was first infected (is that the right word for this, infected?) by the alien ship/sound. He actually called her via cell phone from the ship, telling her they're seeing a UFO, and she heard what happened next, the weird sound and crew being taken over and/or killed. As most family members would do when someone in the family is killed, she listened to the message over and over and over again, and it started to take over her a little (and by "little" I mean flipping out on her ex-boyfriend and throwing him out the window onto the windshield of a car). The sound is mixed into a song and played for other people, and affects them too (much like the kid tried to do via e-mail in the military school episode).

I'm not too thrilled with Charles S. Dutton in this show. I don't even think it's him, he's just saddled with some really inane dialogue and everything that comes out of his mouth seems over the top and cliched. But that' one minor quibble about this show. Even though it seems to be taking it's time to reveal what the alien's plans are, they actually aren't being too stingy with the details. In the past few episodes we've found out how long they've been here, how the sound affects people, and little by little how they plan on taking over people. Would I like to see some major event happen, maybe a city destroyed or a battle between the military and the alien ships? Sure, I guess, maybe as the season-ending cliffhanger. But you have to give the show points for keeping it smaller for now (maybe it's budget constraints after the expensive pilot). This isn't epic science-fiction. It's almost like an espionage drama, only with comic book/space overtones. I like it.

And did I just say I'd like to see a major battle as part of the season-ending cliffhanger? That would mean there's going to be a second season. Oh, we can only hope.