Torchwood (UK): Season 4

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BBC-1 | BBC-2 | BBC-3 | Starz | BBC America | BBC Two | Season Premiere Date: July 8, 2011

Summary: Torchwood: Miracle Day is the show's first season as a coproduction between Starz BBC Wales and BBC Worldwide. CIA agent Rex Matherson investigates a strange worldwide phenomenon and discovers a secret British organization called Torchwood that might know why it is happening.

Creator: Russell T. Davies

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

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Season 4 Episodes

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S4:E3. Dead of Night
Air Date: July 22, 2011
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S4:E2. Rendition
Air Date: July 15, 2011
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S4:E1. The New World
Air Date: July 8, 2011

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Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Jul 7, 2011

A summertime winner here on the strength of strong acting, engaging writing and an immediately gripping premise. Read full review

Lynnette Porter

Jul 8, 2011

The most effective scenes focus on characters' interactions, the sorts of moments Torchwood always did well. Read full review

Linda Stasi

Jul 8, 2011

Lots of action, lots of shoot-'em-ups and lots of big explosions that don't kill anybody. It's also lots of fun. Read full review

Nancy DeWolf Smith

Jul 1, 2011

As the series proceeds, the fiction of the bigger events--e.g. global immortality--is made believable or at least compelling by tiny touches that perfectly anticipate how society would respond. Read full review

James Poniewozik

Jul 8, 2011

As a straight-ahead sci-fi tale, it's engrossing: how is this happening, who is doing it to us, and how does it relate to Captain Jack's own blessing/curse of immortality? The social aspects, however, are handled more hamfistedly so far. Read full review

Mary McNamara

Jul 7, 2011

With any luck, subsequent episodes will find a sharper, cleaner stride. All the elements are there, it's just the alchemy that seems a bit off. Read full review

Mike Hale

Jul 7, 2011

The show has been slowed down this season and stretched out to fill those 10 hours, which means we spend too much time thinking about the story as it develops into a not very interesting allegory involving health care, death lists and big pharma. Read full review

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Jul 13, 2011

A thrill ride that actually makes you think. Torchwood is a British show that has lived a charmed life over the years but remains to be as resilient as its immortal lead character. After the hit and (largely) miss first two seasons the show exploded onto a much bigger, and criticallyA thrill ride that actually makes you think. Torchwood is a British show that has lived a charmed life over the years but remains to be as resilient as its immortal lead character. After the hit and (largely) miss first two seasons the show exploded onto a much bigger, and critically acclaimed, scene with the five-part mini-series 'Children of Earth' in which the British government conspired to surrender 10% of its children to an alien species. Captain Jack Harkness (the immortal hero played by John Barrowman, star of Desperate Housewives among others) was forced to sacrifice his grandson in order to defeat the invaders in a shocking twist in the final episode. Torchwood had finally found its feet and discovered how to create shocking, thrilling, chilling and thoughtful drama and it hasn't looked back since. 'Miracle Day' starts with Oswald Danes (played by the thoroughly magnificent Independence Day star, Bill Pullman) being dosed with a lethal injection as punishment for the sexual assault and murder of a twelve year old girl but something goes horribly wrong. After a few minutes of writhing agony it becomes clear; he won't die. Mekhi Phifer's CIA character Rex Matheson suffers a similar fate when his is impaled after a freak car accident as it becomes clear that this issue has become a global one. Dark themes are explored here with solders, of whom are blown to bits, remain alive (even after being beheaded by a surgeon in a chilling/funny scene halfway through the premiere). Danes, the now immortal murderer, argues that he has been punished for his crimes and that now should be released; a wish that is granted by a local governor threatened by legal action. The Torchwood team, in ruins after the events of 'Children of Earth' come back into the fold to unravel the mystery in explosive fashion as Captain Jack leaps from a suicide bomber out the top floor of a tower block and Gwen Cooper (Welsh actress Eve Myles) blows up a helicopter with a bazooka, obviously. Torchwood is a mix of fascinating intrigue, sound acting, mind-blowing action sequences, chilling themes and impressive writing (from the likes of Doctor Who's Russell T Davies, House's Doris Egan and Buffy's Jane Espenson). Despite a few questionable moments, Torchwood is unashamedly magnificent madness which you'd be a fool to miss.… Expand

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madisonh

Jul 30, 2011

The first episode sucked. But they have been getting better. I am really enjoying the new americanized Torchwood. The have made the transition very well. I do wish they'd stuck with the first two seasons idea of monster-of-the-week but that's just personal opinion. The cast and crew haveThe first episode sucked. But they have been getting better. I am really enjoying the new americanized Torchwood. The have made the transition very well. I do wish they'd stuck with the first two seasons idea of monster-of-the-week but that's just personal opinion. The cast and crew have done a fantastic job of this season and I can't wait for the next episode.… Expand