Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... as a news anchor, his exclusive interview with Anna, the leader of the V's. Meanwhile Father Jack questions his faith as he seeks answers outside the church. is a re-imagining of the 1980's miniseries about the world's first encounter with an alien race in which the aliens call themselves The Visitors, and have a seemingly friendly agenda that may or may not be a cover for something more...
SF Gospel (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... the mess as well. One of the first characters we see in the opening scenes of the pilot is Father Jack Landry, a Catholic priest assigned to a sparsely-attended lower Manhattan church. After the arrival of the Visitors, his pews are packed, in large part because he preaches caution and suspicion. One of his congregants sees him as a candidate for a small but growing resistance movement,...
Dan's Media Digest (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... where he takes a shine to flaxen hottie Lisa (Smallville's Laura Vandervoort). There's also Father Jack Landry (Joel Gretsch), who finds church attendance quadrupling in the wake of alien first contact, but t a sign of unspoken unease and creeping fear. A career-obsessed TV journalist called Chad Decker (Scott Wolf) is chosen to be the "V's" human mouthpiece, pressured into...
Film-Book dot Com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... (2009) , so far, are generic, with the exception of Erica Evans ( Elizabeth Mitchell ) and Father Jack Landry ( Joel Gretsch ). Unfortunately, the people behind the show were in too big of a hurry and spoiled many things in the first episode that could have been hinted at and alluded to throughout the first season. Hopefully, V (2009) has more surprises underneath its sleeve, for...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... like they’re practiced real-estate agents closing a sale. So instead, we focus on how Father Jack Landry (Joel Gretsch), a New York priest, feels about the Visitors (strangely suspicious!). We follow attractive FBI agent Erica Evans (Elizabeth Mitchell), who’s hot on the trail of a terrorist sleeper cell. And then there’s this other guy (Morris Chestnut) of indeterminate...
Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... in this incarnation, and I prefer the "Visitors". But V 2009 does have Father Jack Landry (Joel Gretsch, who played Frank Vasser on Journeyman), which opens up some good theological threads (I'm suspecting his superior might be a Visitor undercover), and Lost's Elizabeth Mitchell has a top role as Erica Evans. The new version also has the winning mix of good and bad Visitors,...
EclipseMagazine.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
What a morning! FBI Counter Terrorism Agent Erica Evans [Elizabeth Mitchell] awakens to a rumble that might be taken to be the harbinger of an earthquake and discovers her son, Tyler [Logan Huffman], hasn’t been home all night. The rumble intensifies as she calls him on his cell – he answers in a hospital, where he’s been treated for bruises from an accident. Elsewhere, Father Jack Landry...
EclipseMagazine.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
V [ABC, Tuesdays, 8/7C] begins with an early morning rumble that awakens FBI Counter Terrorism Agent Erica Evens [Elizabeth Mitchell, Lost] to the discovery that her son, Tyler [Logan Huffman] hasn’t been home all night. Father Jack Landry [Joel Gretsch, The 4400] chats with the wheelchair-bound Roy [Stefan Arngrim] by the entrance to his [...]
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... club, ending in a chance encounter with inevitable romantic lead and disgruntled holy man Jack Landry (Joel Gretsch). I would've preferred a slow burn on that front — which actually brings up my biggest complaint about the episode. The way the pilot was paced, it feels like the series is hitting the ground running a little too hard and fast. We shouldn't move at a snail's pace, but...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... Wolf from "Party of Five") is a newscaster who aspires to do more than "read the news"; Father Jack Landry (Joel Gretsch of "The 4400") is a young priest working among the homeless; and Ryan Nichols (Morris Chestnut) has just purchased the engagement ring he hopes to offer Valerie (Lourdes Benedicto).All of their plans are put on hold, however, when the quake turns out to be the arrival...
