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It’s hard to pin down exactly how I feel about volume two of Primeval, which just came out yesterday from the folks at BBC America.  But we’ll go through exactly why in a minute.

First, a plot recap.  There’s an organization in England, the ARC,  that’s devoted entirely to hunting down various beasties that emerge from some kind of time-dilation portal known as an anomaly.  These anomalies spew beasties like a dime store gumball machine spews toy beasties when you put in a credit card.  So needless to say, there are a whole lot of beasties running wild in and around London at any time.

This is where our fearless collective of heroes steps in and takes care of business in the grandest possible sense, ushering the beasties back through the anomalies wherever possible and occasionally killing a few when it’s not.  Meanwhile, the ARC is being hounded in every possible direction, like dealing with overzealous journalists and former operatives who are convinced that they have seen the enemy, and the enemy is ARC, just not right away.

Alternately thrilling and baffling by turns, Primeval is going to do a whole lot of interesting things, some of which even manage to make sense.  But it’s not just science fiction in here, no sir–there will be some laughs and some occasional romantic bits that will actually allow guys, who came here for the beasties and the sheer staggering array of hot English chicks, to convince their girlfriends to see it too, because there will be plenty of drama and romantic tension among our leads.

In other words, Primeval is one of those really, really rare collections that manages to be a whole lot of different things to a whole lot of different people.  And that’s part of its great appeal.

Whether you’re here to watch beasties try and eat people or see if those two favorite characters of yours will EVER manage to kiss, Primeval pretty much has everything you’re going to be wanting.

And that’s why the Screenhead Ten Scale hands it a hefty seven out of ten, because even though it’s a bit niche, it’s nowhere near as niche as anyone expected.

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