So J.J. Abrams is back with a mystery-thriller about the Alcatraz prison. Turns out the place wasn't closed down because of it's decrepit conditions, it was closed because all of the prisoners disappeared.
We get a prisoner suddenly reappearing present day in a cell at Alcatraz and is discovered by a tour guide. he promptly makes it to the mainland and starts murdering people.
We get a flashback and see the prison doctors drew a lot of blood from him. What's the meaning behind this?
We then meet our heroine who's partner dies while giving chase. She stumbles onto the Alcatraz mystery and is hooked. Of course, she's in deep when she realizes the person her partner was chasing is her grandfather whom she's been told was a prison guard on Alcatraz yet it turns out he was a prisoner. The mystery deepens furthered.
Robert Forster turns up as a bartender who was an actual prison guard on Alcatraz. He raised our heroine and it's immediately clear he knows a lot more than he's letting on.
Sam Neill is an FBI Agent in charge of all this. We can't tell if he's a good guy or bad guy yet. All that we know is he knows a lot of answers that he's not revealing. He was there at Alcatraz as a young guard the night everyone disappeared.
And then Hurley's also here. Jorge Garcia does a good job as an Alcatraz expert who realizes there's a lot more going on than meets the eye.
Special kudos go to Michael Giacchino. As on LOST, his score elevates the material. Has there been a composer more in tune with eliciting emotions than Giacchino? Probably the best since John Williams.
The series works because the mystery deepens expertly (just as they did on the first season of LOST). We'll see if they can sustain it this time out.
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