Joy of Joys! My less-than-personable postal lady delivered a bundle of goodwill to my home last night - the first season of Millennium on DVD. I was so excited, I bypassed the normal watching of the recorded TV to review the pilot of Millennium again. Ahhhhhhhhh.

I did notice a couple of new items watching the show 8 years after it first ran:

1. The Frenchman was played by the same actor who later played the recurring role of Angelo in The Pretender.
   
2. The pilot certainly doesn't seem as racy and cutting-edge as it did in 1996. Still, it was quite good, especially for a pilot.
   
3. The paranoia surrounding the upcoming millennium seems awfully trivial now. Looking back 4 years after the turn of the millennium at the situation from four years prior to the turn of the century, the notions of the end of the world and the prophecies of doom just don't have the impact they did back then. I'm sure some of that is 9/11 fallout, but you just don't hear as much about doomsayers in the news these days.
   

So, what's the next big thing? Well, I'm still waiting to get my hands on the complete series of Twin Peaks on DVD. Please????