Primeval - Series 3 Details

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[Highly rated reviewer]

superb....................

this series is superb. Primeval follows a team of five scientists - Professor Nick Cutter (played by Douglas Henshall), Abby Maitland (played by Hannah Spearritt), Connor Temple (played by Andrew-Lee Potts), Sarah Page (played by Laila Rouass) and Jennifer Lewis (played by Lucy Brown) tasked with investigating the appearance of temporary anomalies across Great Britain and containing prehistoric and futuristic creatures which enter the present.

The episodes for this series are:

Episode 1- An exhibition of ancient Egyptian relics comes to the British Museum and an anomaly opens in a mysterious monument called the ‘Sun Cage’.

Episode 2 - Three teenage boys break into a house and a Future Gremlin attacks them. Only one boy manages to escape.

Episode 3 - An anomaly opens in a London hospital, causing several Diictodon to emerge.

Episode 4 - Mick Harper steals an anomaly detector from Jenny's car and uses it to track down an anomaly at an airport, bringing Nigel Marven with him to identify the creature, yet when a Giganotosaurus comes through the anomaly the team has to keep it hidden from the public and stop it destroying an airport and a Boeing 747.

Episode 5 - After breaking into the ARC again, Danny Quinn is drafted in to help the team when a fast-growing flesh-eating fungus is transferred to the present day by a temp who in turn passes the spores onto his boss who turns into a Fungus Creature.

Episode 6- When the ARC is taken over by Christine Johnson and the military in search of the artifact, Danny and the team flee to a safehouse in the woods: in truth, an old cabin that has been abandoned since the 1930s. With no technology or weapons but their own resourcefulness.

Episode 7 - A Dracorex comes through an anomaly, trying to escape from a 14th century knight who believes he is hunting a dragon. The team are forced to find and save the life of the Dracorex, and return the confused knight to his home before he kills any people, who he believes to be demons.

Episode 8 - An anomaly opens at a race car test track and a huge insect-like creature comes through. It is carnivorous and lethal, and the team must draw on all their resources to get it back to its home.

Episode 9 - The team have to deal with a herd of Embolotherium from the Eocene. Danny arrives with a mysterious woman from the future, but can they save everyone from the stampede?

Episode 10 - Danny, Abby and Connor travel to the future while Sarah and Captain Becker deal with future insects in the ARC. However, Helen plans to destroy the whole evolution of humanity.

Well worth watching !

[Highly rated reviewer]

Well I suppose it's not so bad...

I have a love / hate feeling towards this show, much of it is undeniably naff and poorly made (the action scenes are often like something thought up by small children with very little thought or imagination to them - though there was a significant improvement with the action this series), but I can't help but enjoy it's sense of fun and amusing banter between the characters, who despite being rather irritating at times, have an irresistable innocence and charm that is very likeable. Like when a puppy pees on the newly fitted carpet. Annoying, but just look at his little face! As mentioned, the action has improved with this series as have the special effects and there were times when I was genuinely impressed - the action was occasionally half-decent, sometimes even GOOD!!! But not very often. The acting isn't technically what you could possibly call good acting but it fits the fun style of the show and is satisfying enough. And the new characters were great, as likeable as the ones they replaced, sometimes more so. Infact, the overall standard of the programme was a notch higher this series in my opinion. Either that or I'm finally weakening to it's frustrating hypnotic trance. Possible. I complain about it's many flaws and moan on about it's inferior quality and yet there I am every week - five minutes early, eagerly awaiting the gang's next daft adventure. Dammit, I like it. There, I admitted it. With things like this, I'd normally suggest you turn your brain off to enjoy it. But for Primeval, you'd be better off shutting it down for good, unplugging it, stuffing it into a bottle with a small note saying 'Now I can enjoy Primeval' and hurling it into the sea. In all honesty though, it is entertaining and enjoyable. I never thought I'd hear myself type this, but I'm actually looking forward to series 4. Just when rumours are flying around that it may be the last series too. Typical! Still, only rumours. Let's hope they're wrong.