Torchwood Miracle Day Episode 1

Torchwood: Miracle Day, now a BBC and Starz co-production, airing on the Starz cable network, has begun with a bang. When no one on Earth can die, what are the repercussions? (Note: some spoiler moments are included in my review , so be warned…)

Torchwood as viewers previously knew it (or didn’t if you haven’t seen previous seasons – check them out now, really, NOW) is defunct. Gwen Cooper, her hubby Rhys, and baby are hiding out in Wales. She and Captain Jack Harkness, Torchwood’s resident immortal hero, are all that remain of the former Torchwood Institute, set up in 1879 to defend the U.K. from the strange and alien.

As the story begins, everyone everywhere stops dying. Those who are injured cannot die, including American CIA agent Rex Matheson, injured in a car accident, and Gwen’s father, who suffers an off-screen heart attack, and death-row murderer and lethal injection survivor Oswald Dane. As Matheson seeks answers to his predicament he picks up on investigating the mysterious Torchwood which he feels in somehow connected.

Matheson ‘jumps the pond’, as He, Jack, and Gwen all collide in a great “getting the band back together” moment. As unknown forces attack them all, Gwen, like a mother protecting her cub, faces down a helicopter with a handgun, then a bazooka!   Awesomeness ensues!

With the advent of Miracle Day, and with no one else able to die, Jack has seemingly lost his immortality and his ability to heal!

What happens to those who are severely injured as time progresses?

The population keeps expanding, daily to unsustainable numbers. Food will run out, Society will collapse.

How will the remains of Torchwood fix everything, and what caused Miracle Day in the first place.

I’ll be watching to find out. Maybe you’d enjoy it too.