A couple years later, Lear and a team of scientists led by Nichole Sykes (Caroline Chikezie) are still working on isolating the virus that didn’t kill Fanning, but did turn him into a veiny, black-eyed, blood-drinking terror monster impervious to disease. The first episode, a franken-pilot credited to both Jason Ensler and Marcos Siega, begins with scientists Jonas Lear (Henry Ian Cusick) and Tim Fanning (Jamie McShane) leading an expedition into the Bolivian highlands searching for a 250-year-old man, part of a quest to cure all diseases. That was my reaction to watching the first three episodes of The Passage, which bears much more resemblance to the family-on-the-run hijinks of the first season of Fox’s The Gifted than to Cronin’s densely plotted, perspective-and-time-hopping novel.Įven with series creator Liz Heldens thinning the plot out dramatically, there’s still too much happening for a clear synopsis. The problem is that if The Passage offered your flavor of revisionist vampire lore, you probably read Justin Cronin’s epic tome and perhaps even its pair of doorstop sequels and you may understand something that producer Matt Reeves probably realized after trying to develop it as a movie and that Fox probably realized after multiple attempts at developing it for TV: The Passage is completely and totally unadaptable.
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