Contributor: Bronzethumb

Written by Jeff King
Directed by Jon Cassar

The first episode of “Continuum” came out of the gate strong, moved fast and defied expectations of what a show about a cop from the future would be like. The second episode continues this trend and moves with the kind of sure footing that a lot of shows don’t find until much ( Read more... )

Contributor: Bronzethumb

Written by Simon Barry
Directed by Jon Cassar

Pilots and premieres are always a tricky business: they’ve got to balance all the introductions and set-up and world building against telling an individual story. In genre shows, the introductions are all the more complex because it’s not simply a matter of saying “here’s the ( Read more... )

Contributor: Bronzethumb

Written by Simon Barry
Directed by Patrick Williams

The first season of “Continuum” has been, on the whole, fantastic, so the season finale has a very high bar to clear. It continues the grand tradition of focusing on the strong characters and treating the subject matter with intelligence, but one gets the sense the show is ( Read more... )

Contributor: Bronzethumb

Written by Floyd Kane
Directed by William Waring

With rare exception, “Continuum” has excelled at using the forms and functions of a typical cop show without falling into the category of one. That skill is on display in “Family Time”: instead than simply being one of the militants-take-hostages-and-police-siege-ensues ( Read more... )

Contributor: Bronzethumb

Written by Andrea Stevens
Directed by Paul Shapiro

“Continuum” is back in fine form twith a tightly paced and well-plotted episode that managed to hit just about every note a viewer could want. It addressed the big complaint of last week’s instalment by giving things a focus, pointing them towards the myth arc even when a ( Read more... )

Contributor: Bronzethumb

Written by Jeremy Smith and Jonathan Lloyd Walker
Directed by Rachel Talalay

The premiere season of “Continuum” is continuing to hit all the right notes and escalate the narrative in ways both organic and dramatic. “Time’s Up” beautifully makes the leap from last episode’s character-centric action and tension to a story ( Read more... )

Contributor: Bronzethumb

Written by Jeff King
Directed by Patrick Williams

To say that “Continuum”, a show that already toys intelligently with the conventions of time travel on a regular basis, is doing an episode steeped in temporal theory is really saying something. It’s also saying something that for the fifth episode in a row, the show has ( Read more... )

Contributor: Bronzethumb

Written by Sam Egan
Directed by Michael Rohl

For a show about cops, “Continuum” has done remarkably little in the way of straight-up procedural storylines, instead playing out like an awesomely franchise-free Canadian take on “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”. Not so this episode - regarding the procedural, that is ( Read more... )

Contributor: Bronzethumb

Written by Simon Barry
Directed by David Frazee

The title of this episode is somewhat misleading, but unfortunately it’s tough to think of a time-based pun to do with regrouping and laying the groundwork, because that’s what the bulk of the episode is dedicated to. The action slows down and things start to settle into a ( Read more... )

Contributor: Bronzethumb

Written by Jeff King
Directed by Jon Cassar

The first episode of “Continuum” came out of the gate strong, moved fast and defied expectations of what a show about a cop from the future would be like. The second episode continues this trend and moves with the kind of sure footing that a lot of shows don’t find until much ( Read more... )