NBC's Revolution Continues to Improve

While I have written earlier about the difficulties shows of this nature have in keeping the excitement they create at their beginning Revolution continues each week to bring it's viewers into a world that is more and more interesting.

JJ Abrams is making use of the same device we saw on Lost, that is, slowly filling in the backstory on the characters in the show. Of course many shows might follow this practice but each time it is done in this show thus far I have never failed to be surprised at the history of the character being revealed. It makes the characters much more complex to have this information.

Aside from the plot twists and the fact that we are learning much more about each of the characters we also are becoming used to offhand references and asides which, for those of us in the know, create smiles, nods, or if you are playing along at home a checkmark for another " cookie" found.

In just the past couple of weeks we have seen a reference to Stephen King's The Stand characters such as Stu Redman and Frannie Goldsmith, as well as last night having the password for members of the resistance be asking for a biography of Joe Biden. Pretty clever stuff.

We still do not know of it's long term success but if you have been waiting for the right time to catch up on this show and enjoy the new episodes now might be an opportune time. It is becoming must see television.