Millenium

Got the first season of Chris Carter's show Millenium (spelling?) from Netflix. I remember watching this show at times when it came out and liking it, but I wasn't a regular viewer -- it's pretty dark, and at the time I was a devotee of Carter's other show, the X-Files. I missed out is all I can say. The premise is that the lead character, Frank Black (no not from the Pixies) is a retired FBI profiler of serial killers, who hangs it up because he's too good at what he does -- he actually has visions of what the killer sees (a la Will Graham from Red Dragon). The twist is that he's been contacted to come out of retirement by a "consultant" group called the Millenium Group, who assists the authorities on particularly baffling serial killer cases. The Millenium Group, however, believes that these killers, rather than being random psychopaths, are driven by the forces of hell on earth (i.e., Satan) bent on bringing about the apocalypse of Revelations. May sound out there, but it's compelling...