I like Carla Gugino but there's a Threshold

I actually watched the first two episodes of Threshold before concluding that the formula is too weak to bring me back every week. The first hour of the pilot was pretty good and the cast is excellent for this type of material. Carla Gugino (last seen without her clothes on in Sin City) is Dr. Molly Anne Caffrey, a government consultant who dreams up contingency plans for all sorts of global disasters. One day a spaceship enters Earth’s atmosphere, sends signals to a Navy ship, and Caffrey’s contingency plan for First Contact is activated. She leads the team of specialists, played by actors Rob Benedict (from Felicity and Alias), Brent Spiner (Star Trek: Next Generation), and Peter Dinklage (The Station Agent). All three of these guys are pretty comical and bounce off each other effectively. Dinklage is the most interesting personality on the show—he’s a genius, but he’s also a horndog and extremely arrogant. He’s been drafted to serve the government and he doesn’t like it.

I watched the pilot with some interest, but the second episode just dropped me cold. The aliens have “infected” or programmed humans with a mental virus. This virus presumably makes the humans sabotage various things all over the world and enable the aliens to conquer the Earth. The first episode was about stopping a Naval officer infected by the virus. The second episode was about stopping some kid possibly infected. So every episode they stop some dumb-ass infected with the virus? They aren’t doing a whole lot. In the second episode, some guy blew up his face in a Burger King.

Sorry, Carla, but unless you’re in a thong every episode, I ain’t watching. Nuff said.