| "Goodbye Charlie" | |
|---|---|
| Millennium episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 11 |
| Directed by | Ken Fink |
| Written by | Richard Whitley |
| Original air date | January 9, 1998 |
"Goodbye Charlie" is the eleventh episode of the second season of the crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on January 9, 1998. The episode was written by Richard Whitley, and directed by Ken Fink.
In this episode, offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen)
Plot
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Production
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The script for "Goodbye Charlie" was written by Richard Whitley; it was his sole credit during the show's run.[1][2][3] The episode was directed by Ken Fink, who would later return to direct the third season episode "Darwin's Eye".[3] "Goodbye Charlie" reunited several cast and crew members from the programme Space: Above and Beyond, which had been created by Glen Morgan and James Wong, who were the executive producers of Millennium's second season.[4] Actors Tucker Smallwood and Kristen Cloke had been regulars on that series,[5] while writer Whitley had contributed two episode scripts for it as well.[6][7]
The episode makes use of Bobby Darin's song "Goodbye Charlie"; the song had also been used in the earlier season episode "Monster". Darin's music has been noted by Millennium's resident composer Mark Snow as a hallmark of the works of Morgan and Wong, and would also appear in the episodes "Beware of the Dog" and "Sense and Antisense".[8]
Broadcast and reception
edit"Goodbye Charlie" was first broadcast on the Fox network on January 9, 1998. The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 5.6 during its original broadcast, meaning that 5.6 percent of households in the United States viewed the episode. This represented approximately 5.7 million households. "Goodbye Charlie" was the ninetieth most-watched television programme during the week it aired.[9][nb 1]
"Goodbye Charlie" received positive reviews from critics.
The A.V. Club's Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode a "B+". VanDerWerff felt that Smallwood's performance elevated an episode which he thought otherwise "seems stupid on its face". VanDerWerff believed that the assisted suicide storyline was overly-familiar on television by the time the episode aired, but that both the character of Kiley as written, and Smallwood's portrayal of him, "makes “Goodbye, Charlie” worth a watch, even today".[10]
Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 4 out of 5. Gibron felt that it looked past its "hot button" subject matter in order to give weight to the series' purpose—introducing the idea of deeper motives for the Millennium Group's investigations in the series so far.[11]
Notes
edit- ^ Each ratings point represented 980,000 households during the 1998–99 television season.[9]
Footnotes
edit- ^ Millennium: The Complete First Season (booklet). David Nutter, et al. Fox.
{{cite AV media notes}}: Unknown parameter|titlelink=ignored (|title-link=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ Millennium: The Complete Second Season (booklet). Thomas J. Wright, et al. Fox.
{{cite AV media notes}}: Unknown parameter|titlelink=ignored (|title-link=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ a b Millennium: The Complete Third Season (booklet). Thomas J. Wright, et al. Fox.
{{cite AV media notes}}: Unknown parameter|titlelink=ignored (|title-link=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ Soloman, Harvey (September 18, 1997). "Fall Watch; 'Millennium' takes new turn". The Boston Herald. Retrieved May 19, 2012. (subscription required)
- ^ Garcia & Phillips 2008, pp. 246–247.
- ^ Winrich Kolbe (director); Richard Whitley (writer) (March 3, 1996). "Dear Earth". Space: Above and Beyond. Season 1. Episode 17. Fox.
{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help) - ^ Charles Martin Smith (director); Richard Whitley (writer) (March 24, 1996). "Pearly". Space: Above and Beyond. Season 1. Episode 18. Fox.
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- ^ a b "NBC returns to head of the pack". San Francisco Chronicle. January 14, 1998. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
- ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (May 28, 2011). "The X-Files: "Kill Switch" / Millennium: "Goodbye Charlie"". The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
- ^ Gibron, Bill (January 3, 2005). "Millennium: Season 2: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
References
edit- Chris Carter, John Peter Kousakis, Lance Henriksen, Michael R. Perry, Ken Horton, Thomas J. Wright, Mark Snow, Chip Johannessen, Kristen Cloke, Megan Gallagher, Frank Spotnitz, Mark Freeborn (2004). The Turn of the Tide: The Making of Season 2. Millennium: The Complete Second Season: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
{{cite AV media}}:|format=requires|url=(help) - Shearman, Robert; Pearson, Lars (2009). Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 978-0975944691.
- McLean, James; Henriksen, Lance; Spotnitz, Frank; Carter, Chris (2012). Chamberlain, Adam; Dixon, Brian A. (eds.). Back to Frank Black. Fourth Horseman Press. ISBN 978-0988392298.
- Garcia, Frank; Phillips, Mark (2008). Science Fiction Television Series, 1990–2004. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469178.
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