Due to time-constraints, we’re a bit behind in our FlashForward reviews, but we do plan to get back up to speed soon! For completeness, we thought we’d go ahead and post our very condensed review of 137 Sekunden by pointing out one good aspect to the episode, and one bad.

THE GOOD

• One of our complaints about White To Play was the lack of impact the global blackouts seemed to have on the global community. By visiting Germany and East Africa, Sekunden, at least went some way to making the show feel like the global story it was advertised as being.

THE BAD

• The Nazi. For one thing I doubt either the German or US governments would agree to his demands, especially as his tidbits didn’t exactly amount to much. (I’m fine with the flash forwards being an overarching mystery, but the ‘stepping stones’ towards completing the puzzle could be a little more believable, or interesting). Even his reveal about the crows seemed a little lacking in payoff. Sure, it turned out to be a clue, but only because the show made it fit. I guess it just felt too mechanical. As an aside, it does beg the question of where Team Mosaic will draw the line. In this episode they let a mass murderer go free for the smallest piece of information – what next!? Perhaps a question we should be asking is, whether the future is really worth fighting for if we’re just going to forget the past, like, completely..

Overall: A decent episode. FlashForward shows signs of live but we’re still waiting for the large hook to draw us into the mythology and mystery of the show.

Rating: 7.1/10

(Our Black Swan review will be posted in the next few days).

FlashForward scored 3.0 in the key demos and received more than 9 million viewers for episode 1.03 137 Sekunden. This is slightly down on last week but the baseball might have had something to do with that.

[source: tvbythenumbers]

Synopsis: MARK AND JANIS MEET WITH AN IMPRISONED NAZI WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE BLACKOUTS, DEMETRI RECEIVES A TIP ABOUT HIS FUTURE, AND AARON WANTS TO EXHUME HIS DAUGHTER’S BODY TO RE-TEST HER DNA AND CONFIRM HER IDENTITY, ON ABC’S “FLASHFORWARD”

“137 Sekunden” – Mark and Janis travel to Germany to speak with an imprisoned Nazi who claims to have knowledge about the blackouts, and an anonymous tip leads Demetri to believe his deepest fears about his future. Meanwhile, Aaron pleads with Mark to help him get the approval to have his daughter’s body exhumed in order to re-test her DNA and confirm the identity of the remains, on “FlashForward,” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

137 Sekunden Promotional Trailer

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPvctAGQsA

Resources:

• 1.03 Press Release
• 1.03 Promo Photos
• WeFlashForward Premiere FF Forums

Episode Rating:

ABC have released the official promo photos for FlashForward 1.03 137 Sekunden. Click the jump to view them all.

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Continue below the jump for news of the latest FlashForward ratings, watch the Canadian 137 Sekunden promo, and find out who’s landed a recurring role on the show..and more.

The second episode of FlashForward - White To Play, received 10.78 million viewers – as reported by Digital Spy this is healthy retention from the season premiere.

Here’s the Canadian FlashForward promo for 137 Sekunden:

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhTfZOTKTs8

The Guardian label FlashForward “the fastest selling Disney series ever”:

Flashforward, the high-concept US drama series, has become the fastest-selling Disney series of all time, and broadcasters around the world are showing it as quickly as possible in a bid to beat piracy.
The programme, in which an unexplained event makes people around the world see into their future after blacking out for two minutes, has premiered in Britain on Channel Five, in Australia and even been dubbed into Russian within days of its US premiere. “Even before Mipcom begins we have sold it to 100 territories, already making it the fastest-selling series in our history,” said Disney Media Networks president global distribution Ben Pyne on the opening day of TV trade festival MIPCOM. He said persuading other networks to premiere the programme quickly was part of a new policy.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, “Sleeper Cell” star Michael Ealy will have a recurring role on FlashForward.

Here’s another FlashForward series promo, Spanish style:

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYRYoHTiR-E

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPvctAGQsA

Here is the promo for next week’s episode of FlashForward - 1.03 137 Sekunden.

Here is the ABC Press Release for FlashForward 1.03 “137 Sekunden” – click below the jump to view:

MARK AND JANIS MEET WITH AN IMPRISONED NAZI WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE BLACKOUTS, DEMETRI RECEIVES A TIP ABOUT HIS FUTURE, AND AARON WANTS TO EXHUME HIS DAUGHTER’S BODY TO RE-TEST HER DNA AND CONFIRM HER IDENTITY, ON ABC’S “FLASHFORWARD”
Gabrielle Union Guest Stars as Zoey

“137 Sekunden” – Mark and Janis travel to Germany to speak with an imprisoned Nazi who claims to have knowledge about the blackouts, and an anonymous tip leads Demetri to believe his deepest fears about his future. Meanwhile, Aaron pleads with Mark to help him get the approval to have his daughter’s body exhumed in order to re-test her DNA and confirm the identity of the remains, on “FlashForward,” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

“FlashForward” stars Joseph Fiennes as Mark Benford, John Cho as Demetri Noh, Jack Davenport as Lloyd Simcoe, Zachary Knighton as Bryce Varley, Peyton List as Nicole Kirby, Dominic Monaghan as Simon, Brían F. O’Byrne as Aaron Stark, Courtney B. Vance as Stanford Wedeck, Sonya Walger as Olivia Benford and Christine Woods as Janis Hawk.

Guest starring are Gabrielle Union as Zoey Andata, Lee Thompson Young as Agent Gough, Barry Shabaka Henley as Agent Vreede, Kim Dickens as Katie, Curt Lowens as Rudolf Geyer, Gina Torres as Felicia Wedeck, Thomas Kretschmann as Stefan Krieger, Ray Proscia as Helmut Baecker, Jeff Richards as Jerome Murphy, Shohreh Aghdashloo as Nhadra Udaya, Alan Ruck as Tomasi, Joe Rose as bartender, Guido Foehrweisser as Schultz, Michael Merton as John Spears, Cade Olivas as Attaf, Anna Khaja as older woman and Amy Rosoff as Marcie Turoff.

“137 Sekunden” was written by David Goyer & Marc Guggenheim and directed by Michael Rymer.

[ABC]