User Reviews

Mirror, mirror is the beginning of the end of the Eureka series. It is the first half of the penultimate two-part episode which sets the stage for the series finale. It's a pretty tight offering with a pair of solid and interesting crises that dominate but a multitude of surprisingly touching and funny personal moments between characters that are very satisfying and enjoyable. Each scene is time well spent as the story starts at a trot and ends at a full gallop - the building of dire circumstances and tensions are well done and the viewer can't help but quickly advance to the next episode during an afternoon binge. Enjoy it.

It seems like every science fiction series, or every science fiction adjacent series, has to have a storyline which involves evil duplicates of one or more key characters. Our hero, or heroes, have suddenly become villains and one or more other characters on the show have to discover the subterfuge and save the day. They did it on Star Trek, the original series (Kirk's body is taken over in Whom Gods Destroy), on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy and Faith exchange bodies in This Year's Girl and Who Are You), during season 3 of Fringe, and many times on Marvel's Agents of SHIELD. There are other examples as well, I'm sure.

Now they're doing it on Eureka. And while I have really been enjoying the program, it's a bit tiring that they've gone back to such a familiar trope. Given that it has been such a creative show, I'm disappointed. Oh, I'll finish watching the series; I've invested so much time already. And apart from this disappointment, we just got Holly back and now she's a villain. It hurts, somewhat.