Alcatraz manages to be a show where many things occur, and many people are involved in a variety of activities, and yet it manages to be about nothing, and stars no one. Pretty impressive for a new show.
Alcatraz opened strong, with a creepy Sam Neill voiceover and two guards walking into an empty prison in 1963. It’s unsettling, it’s shot reasonably well, and gives you a great what the fuck vibe. They jump forward to today, Alcatraz is a tourist spot, and a little girl wanders off into an area that’s clearly not where she’s supposed to be, and finds our first time traveling criminal. Ok, so far, so good. Nothing groundbreaking, but its solid. After the opening five minutes however, the show goes to shit.
