Warehouse 13
Warehouse 13 is an American fantasy television series that premiered on July 7, 2009 on the Syfy network.[1][2] The series follows United States Secret Service Agents Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) and Peter Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) when they are assigned to the government's secret Warehouse 13, which houses supernatural "artifacts".[3][4][5][6] It is also in a barren landscape in South Dakota, and they initially regard the assignment as punishment. As they go about their assignments to retrieve missing Warehouse 13 artifacts and investigate reports of new ones, they come to understand the importance of what they are doing.[3][6]
Executive-produced by Jack Kenny and David Simkins,[7] the dramatic comedy from Universal Media Studios has been accused of "borrowing" much from the 1980s television series Friday the 13th: The Series[8][9][10] and has been described as "part The X-Files, part Raiders of the Lost Ark and part Moonlighting."[3] Syfy President Dave Howe has suggested that it was derived from a 2006 miniseries The Lost Room.[11] The series premiere was Syfy's third largest debut to date, garnering 3.5 million viewers.[1][12] It also has a near 50% female viewership.[13] The first six episodes were all among the top 10 highest rated series episodes on Syfy. Episode 6, "Burnout", drew 4.4 million viewers, setting the record for Syfy's highest rated show.[14] The second season of Warehouse 13 began July 6, 2010.[15] On October 5, 2010, Warehouse 13 was renewed for a third season.[16
About Warehouse 13 – Introduction, Story, and Review – SyFy’s “Warehouse 13″ is the newest entry into this specialty sci-fi drama. Warehouse 13 is about two Secret Service agents who find themselves abruptly transferred to a massive, top-secret South Dakota storage facility, which houses every “strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the US. In addition to searching the country for several missing objects discovered stolen from the Warehouse, their job is to monitor for new reports of supernatural and paranormal activity that could indicate the presence of another object they must investigate and safely bring back to the vaults of Warehouse 13.
Warehouse 13, a new show set to premiere on the Sci Fi Channel in July, seems to be a mish-mash of various other shows, such as:(1) The X-Files, which I loved. Warehouse will be a story-of-the-week type of show, versus and ongoing plot, although there may be one great story that is the thread throughout the series. The two-hour pilot for Warehouse 13 is enjoyable enough, although the first hour does drag a bit with exposition. Warehouse 13 is a high concept synthesis of The Librarian, The LostRoom, Ghostbusters, and a myriad other shows.
Too often “Warehouse 13″ comes off like a mashup of leftover parts from better series (”X-Files,” “Moonlighting” and a hint of “Lost”) and in its premiere never manages to distinguish itself as a show worth watching. “The X-Files” meets “Fringe” by way of “The Librarian” with a little ” Indiana Jones” and maybe even “Bones” thrown in for good measure, “Warehouse 13″ is unapologetically and delightfully derivative, happily plucking the best stuff from our favorite shows and leaving all the heaviness behind. Like other Sci Fi shows of the recent past (think: “Eureka”), “Warehouse 13″ begins with a strong concept and suffers from weak execution.
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