Liz Heldens, who developed “The Passage” for television, has created previous shows, like “Camp” and “Mercy” for NBC, that had personality but also broadcast-network predictability. In “The Passage,” the early episodes pop because they’re built around Brad and Amy’s flight, a multiepisode set piece with its own emotional payoff. And promos for the show suggest that Amy will soon develop her own abilities, providing the surefire satisfaction of little-body-with-big-powers confrontations. (Also whether the show will continue to be as bloody, by gun and by fang, as it is in the early episodes.) There are signs that she might go down the “Lost” road of substituting flashbacks for real-time character development.

Source: New York Times January 13, 2019 20:15 UTC