5ive Days To Midnight

Now, I try not to get caught up in TV marketing and the incessent advertising for new shows, but 5ive Days To Midnight really caught my attention one evening while relaxing in front of the TV.

This was a five (who would have thought?) show mini-series that was a new, and creative twist on the good ol’ murder mystery. Particularly fascinating was the discussion of temporal paradoxes–which most sci fi freaks should be familiar with. Now, I’m not saying that I believe that time travel in either direction is or ever will be possible, but if it were, and humans could traverse the fourth dimension of time, how would such paradoxes resolve themselves? If I send a package back in time and prevent a murder of someone close to me, I will have lived a new life from the moment in the past the pacakge was received and used. Do I still have to send the package to the past to ensure the same events occur (i.e. prevent the murder)? Who knows, but it is interesting to ponder.

Thankfully, the series does not invent pseudo-science to explain events, and really just sticks with the main theme: a murder mystery with three primary suspects and a few loops. The suspense certainly kept me interested and I hope SciFi replays it soon, so that I may watch the first two episodes that I chose to ignore.