Millennium - Fear your neighbor as yourself
| Television series | |
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| German title | Millennium - Fear your neighbor as yourself |
| Original title | millennium |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1996-1999 |
| Production company |
20th Century Fox Television , Ten Thirteen Productions |
| length | 44 minutes |
| Episodes | 67 in 3 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Drama , mystery , thriller |
| Theme music | Mark Snow - Millennium Theme |
| idea | Chris Carter |
| production | Chris Carter , James Wong , Glen Morgan (excerpt) |
| music | Mark Snow |
| First broadcast | October 25, 1996 (USA) on Fox |
| German-language first broadcast |
October 10, 1997 on Sat.1 |
| occupation | |
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Millennium - Fear your neighbor as yourself (Original title: Millennium ) is an American television series created by Chris Carter . At the center of the original series concept was the demand for a realistic representation of the crimes, their causes and their explanation as well as the examination of the mythology of evil.
action
The focus of the series is former FBI agent Frank Black. He and his wife Catherine have a baby daughter named Jordan. Black has a special gift to empathize with the essence of evil. This sometimes gives him vivid visions of their motivation and actions, which he uses for his work as a profiler . This constant and intense confrontation with brutal crimes and the threats to his family has caused him to have a nervous breakdown. The action now begins after a convalescence period . Frank moves back to Seattle with his family and is recruited by the Millennium Group . Former employees of various US security agencies, who specialize in providing advice on violent crimes, work in this organization. The group uses an ouroboros as a symbol. The group member Peter Watts is assigned to Frank as a liaison man and mentor. Frank is confronted relatively quickly with the hypothesis that the increase in brutal violent crimes is related to the coming millennium and that the group has more extensive knowledge.
First season
Frank Black works to help solve serial murders , the increased occurrence and brutality of which Frank Black interprets as a sign of an approaching apocalypse. He and Peter Watts make an effective team over time, and he also works frequently with his old friend, cop Bob Bletcher. The renewed occupation with the abnormal as well as the threat to his family from photographs of family members sent anonymously to him put a heavy strain on him and his marriage; eventually his wife is kidnapped.
Second season
Frank kills the previously anonymous letter writer in self-defense in front of his wife. Since Catherine massively disturbs Frank's brutality, his marriage threatens to break up forever; Catherine and Jordan move out of the "yellow house". Frank realizes that the Millennium Group was previously informed of the letter writer's identity; but will still be accepted into the group. Over time, Frank also realizes that there are other groups that seem to have knowledge of the future and that are competing with the Millennium group . He also learns that the Millennium Group goes back to the early days of Christianity and is now divided. There are two factions, one believing in a near end of the world due to a biblical apocalypse and the other assuming a threat to the earth from a cosmic event based on scientific knowledge. Frank realizes that his daughter Jordan seems to be developing her own psychic gift.
In the struggle for control, the Millennium Group is using all means at its disposal and using "sect-like" methods to subdue its own followers. This leads to a break between Black and Watts. Frank tries to leave the group. His wife Catherine is killed in an outbreak of disease that the group had secretly vaccinated against.
Third season
Frank, who suffers another nervous breakdown due to the death of his wife, only manages to recover because of his love for his daughter Jordan. He again works as a consultant for the FBI, albeit as a constant reminder of the machinations of the Millennium Group . In agent Emma Hollis, he finds an inquisitive confidante who is all too happy to leave the usual FBI procedures. But over time, Hollis succumbs to the lure of the knowledge the group has to offer. Eventually she overflows. Black is informed by Watts that the group has a keen interest in his daughter Jordan and her developing gift. He dives with her.
X-Files
The story of the discontinued series should come to an end in the crossover episode “Millennium” of the 7th season of the X-Files series - The FBI's Scary Cases . However, this attempt is both in fan circles and by creatively involved, e. B. the main actor Lance Henriksen, regarded as rather failed, because the episode finally produced was so far removed from the actual plot of Millennium and hardly picked up any of the old storylines, let alone brought them to a satisfactory end.
The plot: Frank has again placed himself under psychiatric supervision. He is in a custody battle with the parents of his late wife Catherine Jordan and is trying to prove his sanity. However, he makes FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully aware of four members of the group who want to play an important role in the apocalypse expected of them for the turn of the millennium through a ritual self-sacrifice. While the victim appears to have mystical consequences, Mulder and Scully can prevent the worst. In addition, the predicted apocalypse does not materialize .
synchronization
The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book by Martin Schmitz under his dialogue direction on behalf of the Arena Synchron in Berlin .
| Role name | actor | Voice actor | Leading role (Starring) |
Recurring lead role (Also Starring) |
Guest appearance (s) (Guest Starring) |
Number of episodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Black | Lance Henriksen | Michael Telloke | 1.01-3.22 | 7.04 ( X-Files ) | 67 | |
| Catherine Black | Megan Gallagher | Liane Rudolph | 1.01-2.23 | 3.12 | 46 | |
| Peter Watts | Terry O'Quinn | Lothar Hinze | 1.01-2.23 | 3.02-3.22 | 41 | |
| Jordan Black | Brittany Tiplady | Pauline Habermann | 1.01-3.22 | 7.04 (X-Files) | 41 | |
| Lt. Bob Bletcher | Bill Smitrovich | Roland Hemmo | 1.01-1.19 | 11 | ||
| Det. Bob Giebelhouse | Stephen J. Lang | Michael Narloch | 2.03-2.20 | 1, 3 | 16 | |
| Special Agent Emma Hollis | Klea Scott | Claudia Urbschat-Mingues | 3.01-3.22 | 22nd |
background
Production history
After the X-Files series had become a commercial and artistic success on the American television station Fox in the mid-1990s , the intention was to retain the corresponding series creator Chris Carter and let him develop new projects. The first project became Millennium . The series was supposed to be way darker than the X-Files . The background was the belief in the end of the world, as evidenced by the first millennium in Christian history, through the apocalypse prophesied in the Bible for the upcoming millennium, i.e. the millennium.
The first season of Millennium was under the direct supervision of Chris Carter. However, the audience reaction was rather cautious. For the second season, the team Glen Morgan and James Wong was won. Both had had a major impact on the early design of the X-Files . Then they had their own project with the Space 2063 series . After its failure, they should now give Millennium a new direction. Among them, almost all of Space 2063's cast had guest appearances. However, Morgan and Wong let their contract with Carter's production company expire, so that new producers were responsible for the third season again and there was a slight discontinuity in the plot. After the third season, Fox did not renew the series. Due to the different responsible persons, the three squadrons also have very different emphases in terms of content. To wrap things up, one episode of the X-Files series clarified at least some of the questions about the Millennium Group.
Millennium and Profiler
In 1996 another series with similar premises premiered on US television: Profiler on NBC . Again, it's about a former FBI agent who had an empathic gift and who was terrorized by a stranger. Despite many assumptions, however, neither of the two series could be proven to have been copied from the other. The two series also took different developments, with Profiler becoming significantly more successful.
Radiance and reach
In Germany, the series was advertised intensively as Millennium - Fear Your Neighbors Like Yourself and broadcast on Sat.1 from October 10, 1997. Since the audience ratings did not meet expectations, the second half of the second and third seasons were broadcast on ProSieben from July 17, 2000 on Tuesdays between 11 p.m. and midnight after a significant break . In 2004/2005 a rerun ran on kabel eins . In 2009, it was repeated again on the RTL Crime pay station .
Awards
The series received numerous nominations for science fiction and fantasy awards . In the field of established prizes, Lance Henriksen was able to book three nominations for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series . There were also two nominations for the Emmys 1998 (for a Best Supporting Actor and Extraordinary Sound Editing (sound editing) in a television series )
DVD publications
The series was released on DVD in season boxes in 2005 . The third season set also includes the episode Millennium from the X-Files series . In 2007 a complete box was also released.
literature
- Ngaire E. Genge: The Millennium Factbook - All Episodes, All Facts, All Stars. Econ Taschenbuchverlag, Düsseldorf / Munich 1997, ISBN 3-612-26477-X .
- Ngaire E. Genge: The Millennium Factbook II - The Mystery Continues. Econ Taschenbuchverlag, Düsseldorf / Munich 1997, ISBN 3-612-26508-3 .
- Andreas Kasprzak: The real cases of the Millennium. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-426-77364-3 .
- Kai Kricke, Sascha Westphal, Lorenzo Zucchetti: Millennium - The horror begins. Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-14245-4 .
- Christian Lukas: Millennium - All the background and facts about the series. Heel-Verlag, Königswinter 1997, ISBN 3-89365-599-9 .
- Sascha Westphal: Millennium - The second season. Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-15439-8 .
Web links
- Millennium - neighbor as yourself in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Millennium - Fear Your Neighbor Like Yourself in the Online Film Database
- Millennium - Fear your neighbor like yourself at Fernsehserien.de
- The Millennial Abyss - Various background information
- Millennium - Fear your neighbor like yourself in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Millennium - Fear your neighbor as yourself. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on January 9, 2010 .
- ↑ Emmy nominations for Millennium on emmys.com