MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Episode Title: "It's Only The Beginning" Written By: Cameron Litvack & Angela Russo-Otstot Synopsis: FBI Agent Erica Evans (Elizabeth Mitchell), Father Jack Landry (Joel Gretsch), secret Visitor Ryan Nichols (Morris Chestnut) and the trigger-happy Georgie (David Richmond-Peck) set forth on their first mission as a rudimentary resistance upon learning that the Visitors' plan...
Deep Dish (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
It's true. They do. There's just something about a gorgeous guy dressed in black with a little white collar around his neck that gives me goose bumps -- and makes me want to rip off all his clothes. And now that I've shared that personal fantasy, let's move on to ABC's new science-fiction drama, V , which features the yummy Joel Gretsch as Father Jack Landry. I could eat him with a spoon....
Film-Book dot Com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... to something, hiding their advanced technology, and she takes no documentation of any kind. Father Jack Landry ( Joel Gretsch ) knows the V’s are monitoring the phones because of what happened in the first episode and makes a open communication on the phone to Erica about Resistance business. I could nitpick the scene more but what is the point. Whoever wrote this scene did not nitpick...
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Episode Title: "There Is No Normal Anymore" Written By: Scott Peters & Sam Egan Synopsis: FBI Agent Erica Evans (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Father Jack Landry (Joel Gretsch) must decide whether or not to hide their knowledge of the Visitors' true intentions — a particularly difficult decision for Erica given the fact that she had to kill former [...]
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... in all sorts of packages, after all. It's in this mind-set that we find Erica Evans and Father Jack Landry. After witnessing the truth of the Visitors in last week's pilot episode, they are thrust into a world where they can trust no one but themselves ... and even that seems hard for Erica and Jack to pull off. It's an instinct that seems more or less ingrained in Erica. She's...
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...
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...
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 [...]
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
