As the gang nears Neville and his men, their hopes of finding Danny grow until a shocking discovery threatens to impede their efforts. Meanwhile, orders from Monroe have upped the value of Danny's life and Nora connects with a fellow Rebel.Download Video Revolution Resentment Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Revolution Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.What would you do without it all? In this epic adventure from J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions and "Supernatural's" Eric Kripke, a family struggles to reunite in an American landscape where every single piece of technology - computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights - has mysteriously blacked out forever. A drama with sweeping scope and intimate focus, "Revolution" is also about family - both the family you're born into and the family you choose. This is a swashbuckling journey of hope and rebirth seen through the eyes of one strong-willed young woman, Charlie Matheson (Tracy Spiridakos, "Being Human"), and her brother Danny (Graham Rogers, "Memphis Beat"). When Danny is kidnapped by militia leaders for a darker purpose, Charlie must reconnect with her estranged uncle Miles (Billy Burke, "The Twilight Saga"), a former U.S. Marine living a reclusive life.
Together, with a rogue band of survivors, they set out to rescue Danny, overthrow the militia and ultimately re-establish the United States of America. All the while, they explore the enduring mystery of why the power failed, and if - or how - it will ever return.
In other words, it seems to have all the ingredients to be the water-cooler show of the fall. It's probably not a good sign, though, that all we could think about as we were watching the pilot for the NBC drama, which premieres Monday (Sept. 17), was steam engines.
"Revolution" takes place 15 years after something makes everything that uses any form of electricity -- from your iPad to your car to the simplest light bulb -- stop working. We see the calamity in a prologue: Planes fall from the sky and all the lights go out.
Chicagoan Ben Matheson (Tim Guinee) knows why, although he doesn't have time to tell his wife (Elizabeth Mitchell) and two young kids what's going on before the power goes out. He does, however, manage to download something very important to a flash drive/amulet.
The story then shifts to 15 years later. Society has reverted to a pre-industrial state, and what was the United States is now controlled by various militias. Ben is now a farmer, his kids Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos) and Danny (Graham Rogers) young adults. They live a reasonably peaceful life in a subdivision-turned-agrarian village.
Militiamen, however, soon come calling, led by a captain named Tom Neville (Giancarlo Esposito). They're looking for Ben (and presumably his magic flash drive), things get tense, people get shot and Danny ends up in the militia's clutches.
Ben tells Charlie to go find his brother Miles ("Twilight" dad Billy Burke), who lives in what's left of Chicago. She and her traveling companions Maggie (Anna Lise Phillips) and Aaron (Zak Orth) find him, trouble finds them, there's a pretty cool swordfight and we're off and running.
But yeah -- steam engines. At times when we were supposed to be wondering if Miles would reluctantly join Charlie in her quest, and who the mysterious Gen. Monroe is that Neville works for, we kept thinking about things that don't require electricity to work and why people aren't building them. It's because, frankly, "Revolution" doesn't do the best job of setting its own ground rules.
It's one thing to suspend disbelief and roll with the idea that "physics went insane," as Aaron puts it. It's a pretty great what-if, actually. But 15 years on, wouldn't you think that people would be at least trying to build some steam-powered tools? James Watt started building steam engines 100-plus years before Edison got his light bulbs to work, so it's not like it couldn't be done.
Giancarlo Esposition is better than this.To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, " I knew Gus Fring. Gus Fring was a friend of mine. And you, my friend, are no Gus Fring". Never saw Mr. Esposito in a bad project before, but I guess there's always a first time.
This hodgepodge of "The Postman" and "Life After People" looks dead on arrival. And speaking of "dead on arrival", AMC's little zombie show seems to have a way to make this post-apocalyptic stuff a whole lot more palatable. Just add writers and some committed actors and you got yourself a winner. It CAN be done. But "Revolution" ain't doin' it.