ORBzine - Primeval TV Review
Season 1
Primeval [Season 1, Episode 1]
Shown 11th February 2007 [Sunday]
A gigantic prehistoric monster is on the rampage in an English forest. A Professor and his sidekicks are hired by a secret Government Dept to solve the mystery. The monster came through a time portal ...
This is ITV's first Spec Fic show since the 1980s. Obviously an attempt to cash in on the new generation of fans created by the Dr Who relaunch.
Primeval [Season 1, Episode 2]
Shown 18th February 2007 [Sunday]
Conor, the student, decides to go monster-hunting without Government help. He recruits Abby [who looks great while dancing in her underwear].
London's subway tunnels are infested with prehistoric bugs.
Primeval [Season 1, Episode 3]
Shown 25th February 2007 [Sunday]
A prehistoric giant crocodile gets in via an underwater anomaly.
The Prof gets a chance to meet his wife again. Will he choose his marriage or his duty?
Primeval [Season 1, Episode 4]
Shown 3rd March 2007 [Sunday]
Connor the Nerd's conspiracy-theorist buddies bug him. When the team discover a new wormhole, the buddies capture a Dodo!
Unfortunately, the Dodo has a parasite ...
Primeval [Season 1, Episode 5]
Shown 10th March 2007 [Sunday]
Something eats a Golfer, so the team investigate. They sight a huge Pterodactyl overhead. Connor stupidly brings Rex along, which leads to more conflict ...
Claudia gets temporarily blinded. Worse, she and Cutter get attack in a Stately Home.
Primeval [Season 1, Episode 6]
Shown 17th March 2007 [Sunday]
The worst monster of all is on the loose ...
We get to find out who the skeletons in the first episode were ... and where the missing wife's loyalties lie!
Primeval [Season 2, Episode 1]
Shown 12th January 2008 [Saturday]
The Prof has to adjust to the new universe. His lady friend has been replaced by an annoying lickspittle, who spends most of his time getting on the Boss's nerves. Also, the team now has a brand new shiny HQ.
The team go Raptor-hunting in a shopping mall. They're remarkably inept - but the fact that their SWAT backup was recently eaten may explain it. A civilian is slaughtered while under their protection (they don't even do First Aid!), and Hannah Spearitt is endangered unnecessarily at least twice!
Primeval [Season 2, Episode 2]
Shown 19th January 2008 [Saturday]
A hi-tech office block has a gas leak. Unfortunately the gas is the prehistoric atmosphere, and the creatures that breathe it are enormous hairy carnivorous worms!
Conor falls out with Abby, but gets a new GF. Too good to be true, eh?
Primeval [Season 2, Episode 3]
Shown 26th January 2008 [Saturday]
The team investigate a Big Cat sighting. But this isn't an escaped puma or an overgrown house-cat - it's a sabre-tooth tiger!
Conor's new girlfriend Caroline has a secret agenda - as if we didn't see it coming. But what's surprising is who she's working for ...
Primeval [Season 2, Episode 4]
Shown 2nd February 2008 [Saturday]
The team hunt aquatic monsters that have appeared in a London canal. The first one is a super-shark from the future ... the other is a CGI version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon !
Conor has to sort out his feelings about Abby.
Primeval [Season 2, Episode 5]
Shown 9th February 2008 [Saturday]
The team must have been watching Stargate SG-1 , because they now use a camera-robot before going through the anomalies. This robot was jury-rigged by Connor, though last week Stephen could get a hi-tech military robot sub just by asking for one!
The Prof and his sidekick try to save a teenage girl who wandered through an anomaly. They end up in a desert full of super-sized insects, re-enacting the film Tremors .
Connor makes his choice of girlfriends. Unfortunately, he forgets that Caroline hates Rex, the pet dinosaur ...
Primeval [Season 2, Episode 6]
Shown 16th February 2008 [Saturday]
Mammoths go mad on a motorway!
Cutter puts into action his plan to catch the traitor. However, the villains are a couple of steps ahead of him ...
Primeval [Season 2, Episode 7]
Shown 23rd February 2008 [Saturday]
The villains have launched their takeover scheme. The good guys must save the day - and luckily, they have some unexpected allies.
Finally we get a catfight between Hannah and her rival.
The ending has an unpredictable twist ...
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