mrv3000 | Never thought I'd actually *recommend* Torchwood!

grav_ity brought up the fact that Torchwood's latest is playing sort of like a movie for TV. And I agree. The production value for this mini-series has been stepped up a notch from past episodes.

If you've never watched Torchwood, I think you'd have no problem starting with the multi-part "Children of Earth" that started last night. There's not a whole lot of backstory that isn't explained or that you couldn't catch on to in this first part. Torchwood is an organization that deals with aliens. And is the worst kept secret in Cardiff. (Heh.) Jack, Ianto and Gwen are all humans, but Jack can't ever die due to something that happened on Doctor Who years ago. You don't really need to know how this all happened, just that it's something unique about Jack.

I'm not trying to win converts to Torchwood. It's just that I know how summer TV is, and if you want something good to watch that's in the X-Files vein, you might want to give this mini-series a try.