TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY - NEW YORK POST: ‘Day’ of the undead
British sci-fi favorite emigrates with story of Immortality to US
By LARRY GETLEN
July 3, 2011
‘Torchwood: Miracle Day,” a 10-episode sci-fi drama, kicks off with the attempted execution of child killer Oswald Danes by lethal injection. Danes — played by Bill Pullman — convulses, is almost thrown from the table as the drugs surge through him, and then ... nothing. Their effect suddenly wears off, and he’s as alive as he was when he awoke that morning.
So begins a ride that examines — amidst a Hollywood blockbuster-like spectacle of explosions, gunshots and hand-to-hand combat — what would happen to our planet if people stopped dying.
“It’s unexplained. We don’t know what’s going on or what the answer is,” says Mekhi Phifer, who plays CIA operative Rex Matheson. He meets what would have been a brutal end if it hadn’t been “Miracle Day.”
“That’s the difference between this and a 9/11, where everybody banded together. Here, we don’t know who the enemy is, and that’s what’s so scary...”
Mekhi Phifer as Rex Matheson
Torchwood: Miracle Day premieres in the US On Starz Friday, July 8, 2011 at 10/9C.
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