![]() Plus, it hurts when your main character is just plain boring. The first episode is a little too cop procedural and not enough cryptic. In the modern day, these criminals start to resurface at the same age they were when they disappeared, and our main team - comprised of an FBI agent, an Alcatraz history expert and a police detective - give merry chase. Starring Sam Neil, another Lost alum, Jorge Garcia, and an unfortunately bland lead Sarah Jones, the show revolves around the famous island prison of Alcatraz, in which 256 inmates and 46 guards mysteriously disappeared without a trace one night in 1963. Alcatraz (2012)Īnother frustratingly dull exercise in an stellar concept, Alcatraz is a police procedural with a time travel twist. Sadly, the pilot skips the intrigue (and keeps its best star, Lost alum Elizabeth Mitchell, out of the picture) to go straight to the generic dystopian post-apocalyptic tropes. Revolution takes place 15 years after a worldwide blackout causes everything that relies on electricity to stop working without explanation In the chaos that descended, militant regimes have taken over the remnants of civilization, and suddenly everyone's an expert at fighting with machetes. It's too sleek, and there are too many sexy people running around in midriff-baring tank tops to pay attention to a concept that is actually intriguing. The bottom of a pretty good barrel, Revolution's pilot suffers from being a bad indicator of how good the show would eventually become. So, with his newest show, the Hulu series in collaboration with Stephen King 11.22.63 , out, we revisit and rank all of the pilot episodes for Abrams' TV shows. He's not known for sticking around with his shows for the entirety of their runs - he's more of a concept and pilot episode guy - but he's had a hand in creating, executive producing and writing (the beginnings of) some of the most beloved TV shows to date. In fact, the sci-fi director may have done some of his best work on TV, with his shows like Alias and Lost becoming cultural phenomenons. ![]() ![]() Abrams may be one of the biggest names in Hollywood now thanks to a little sci-fi film called Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but that doesn't mean he's too big for the small screen. ![]()
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