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  • CBS
  • Sep 16, 2005
  • CBS
  • Sep 16, 2005
Threshold

Summary Molly Anne Caffrey (Carla Gugino) is a government contingency agent whose job is to create response plans for any possible worse-case scenario. One of her plans - THRESHOLD - is enacted by J.T. Baylock when the U.S. Navy realizes an "extra terrestrial craft" has landed in the mid-Atlantic ocean. Caffrey must hand-select a team of scienti...

  • CBS
  • Sep 16, 2005
  • CBS
  • Sep 16, 2005
Threshold
Season 1
Season Premiere: Sep 16, 2005
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 26 Critic Reviews
64
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings
4.8
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Summary Molly Anne Caffrey (Carla Gugino) is a government contingency agent whose job is to create response plans for any possible worse-case scenario. One of her plans - THRESHOLD - is enacted by J.T. Baylock when the U.S. Navy realizes an "extra terrestrial craft" has landed in the mid-Atlantic ocean. Caffrey must hand-select a team of scienti...

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 16, 2005
Trees Made of Glass: Part 1
Episode 2 • Sep 16, 2005
Trees Made of Glass: Part 2
Episode 3 • Sep 20, 2005
Blood of the Children
An incident at a fast-food restaurant leads the Threshold team to a military academy, and the discovery that the infection has spread beyond the original Big Horn crew.
Episode 4 • Sep 30, 2005 • 45 m
The Burning
The team pursues an escaped mental patient whose room is filled with the drawings of the glass trees from Caffrey, Cavennaugh, and Pegg's dreams.
Episode 5 • Oct 7, 2005
Shock
Dr. Caffrey finds herself dealing with the Baltimore police and Homeland Security in an effort to gain the transfer of a captured infectee.
Episode 6 • Oct 14, 2005
Pulse
A Miami DJ poses a danger when she begins using part of the alien signal in her mixes, threatening the infection of thousands.
Episode 7 • Oct 21, 2005
The Order
While the Red Team investigates reports of people in a New England seaside village dreaming of the glass trees, Caffrey tracks down a leak and deals with a senator's inquiries.
Episode 8 • Nov 4, 2005 • 41 m
Revelations
Caffrey and Cavennaugh follow a lead on an infectee to an Indiana town with a preacher relating visions of an alien landscape.
Episode 9 • Nov 22, 2005
Progeny
The Red Team traces the infection of three women to a fertility clinic.
Episode 10 • Jan 11, 2006
The Crossing
An attempted breakout by the infected humans in Threshold custody leads to a plan to transport them to a more secure location.
Episode 11 • Jan 18, 2006
Outbreak
Episode 12 • Jan 25, 2006
Vigilante
Arthur is busy with a stripper when an infected serial killer walks in on the scene kills the stripper but lets Arthur go untouched. WHY? Is this some higher Alien plot?
Episode 13 • Feb 1, 2006
Alienville
The trail of an infected cook leads Dr. Caffrey and Agent Cavennaugh to a small Virginia town populated by the infected.

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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58% Positive
15 Reviews
35% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 26 Critic Reviews
64
58% Positive
15 Reviews
35% Mixed
9 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews

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100
Convincingly smart, realistically unsettled and sexy as all get-out, Gugino radiates so much TV star power, it just might be visible from outer space.
By Robert Bianco FULL REVIEW
80
Considering all that it has going for it, "Threshold" has a more formidable foe in Friday night apathy. Out of all the shows that could possibly conquer that, though, you couldn't place your faith in a better choice than this excellent proof of intelligent TV life.
By Melanie McFarland FULL REVIEW

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80
Like "The X-Files," a series it resembles in both look and tone, "Threshold" is as much a horror show as it is a science-fiction program.
By Mark Dawidziak FULL REVIEW
70
The cynical and cerebral Threshold is the darkest of the three new space-alien shows, so much so that the producers seem to be wondering if the human race is even worth saving.
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW
58
With all of its bad-guy chases, Threshold feels like a fantasy series that's been focus-grouped into a cop show.
By Gillian Flynn FULL REVIEW
40
There's too much emphasis on fictional scientific theories and not enough character development to make the few scares in "Threshold" worth a two-hour commitment.
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW
10
There's nothing inviting about the ponderous Threshold. Portentous music plays. Scared smart guys, rounded up by the government to figure out what's really happening, say smart-guy stupid stuff.
By Jonathan Storm FULL REVIEW
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