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Flashforward: Season One, Pt. 1

What would happen if you got a glimpse of your future six months from right now? What would happen if everyone in the world got a glimpse of their future six months from right now? What would happen if while everyone was having these ‘visions’ the entire world blacked out for over two minutes? Now things are getting crazy. That’s what happens in ABC Studios’ Flashforward. New to DVD is the first part of the first season, Flashforward: Season One, Pt. 1.

Flashforward follows a group of characters that are intertwined since the blackout. The main character in the series is FBI Agent Mark Binford, played by Joseph Fines. Binford has a vision of himself investigating the blackout six months from the event. His vision is a little hazy but he has a huge bulletin board containing information about the blackout that has clues and pictures. Therefore, he gets to be point man on the investigation at the FBI California office. His vision is most important to the series because as the show progresses, Mark and his partner Demetri find clues and pictures from the ‘mosaic’ board in Binford’s office. All of the other characters are key to the story too, but Binford is what you’re following on the show most of the time. The interesting thing about watching the series is getting to see each characters vision and then getting to know them in the first few episodes. Some embrace their future and some fight it. It’s interesting to watch how the characters get to where they’re at to where they’re going.

Flashforward is a lot like Lost. Especially with the series premiere. The first episode is outstanding. No episode on this DVD is as good as that first episode. The chaos that you see unfold and the reaction from all of the main characters is fascinating to watch. After that first episode things can get stagnant. There are probably two episodes on this set that are like that. While most of the episodes are awesome, those two bring things down a little bit. It’s all about movement and progress in a show like this and the two episodes that don’t really progress anything are hard to watch.

This is just the first part of the first season. These are the only episodes that have been on TV so far. The rest of the season will start in March and end in May. If you missed watching these episodes and you haven’t gotten into Flashforward yet, you definitely should. This two-disc DVD set is a great way to do that.