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| caption = Recurring guest star [[C. C. H. Pounder]] made her ''Millennium'' début in "The Judge".
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"''''The Judge'''" is the fourth episode of the [[Millennium (season 1)|first season]] of the American [[Crime (genre)|crime]]-[[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] [[television series]] ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]''. It premiered on the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox network]] on November 15, 1996. The episode was written by [[Ted Mann (writer)|Ted Mann]], and directed by [[Randall Zisk]]. "The Judge" featured guest appearances by [[Marshall Bell]], [[John Hawkes (actor)|John Hawkes]] and [[C. C. H. Pounder]].
"''''The Judge'''" is the fourth episode of the [[Millennium season 1|first season]] of the American [[Crime (genre)|crime]]-[[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] [[television series]] ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]''. It premiered on the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox network]] on November 15, 1996. The episode was written by [[Ted Mann (writer)|Ted Mann]], and directed by [[Randall Zisk]]. "The Judge" featured guest appearances by [[Marshall Bell]], [[John Hawkes (actor)|John Hawkes]] and [[C. C. H. Pounder]].


Forensic profiler [[Frank Black (character)|Frank Black]] ([[Lance Henriksen]]), a member of the private investigative organisation [[Millennium Group]], is asked to investigate a vigilante (Bell) who uses newly released convicts to execute those he deems guilty.
Forensic profiler [[Frank Black (character)|Frank Black]] ([[Lance Henriksen]]), a member of the private investigative organisation [[Millennium Group]], is asked to investigate a vigilante (Bell) who uses newly released convicts to execute those he deems guilty.
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==Plot==
==Plot==
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In a bowling alley, ex-convict Carl Nearman ([[J. R. Bourne]]) watches another man eat his meal before following him outside, where he approaches and kills him. Elsewhere, Annie Tisman (Donna White) receives a human tongue in a package. The [[Millennium Group]] sends [[criminal profiling|profiler]] [[Frank Black (character)|Frank Black]] ([[Lance Henriksen]]) and pathologist Cheryl Andrews ([[C. C. H. Pounder]]) to investigate, as several people have received body parts in the mail. No connection between the recipients has been found, nor have the bodies the parts have been culled from.


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Mike Bardale ([[John Hawkes (actor)|John Hawkes]]), a violent repeat offender who has recently been released from prison again, is approached by a man calling himself The Judge ([[Marshall Bell]]). The Judge, a [[vigilante]], offers Bardale a position in his "court", in which convicts are hired to mete out his version of justice against those he perceives as criminals. Bardale's first "execution" is that of his forebear, Nearman.
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In a bowling alley, ex-convict Carl Nearman ([[J. R. Bourne]]) watches another man eat his meal before following him outside, where he approaches and kills him. Elsewhere, Annie Tisman (Donna White) receives a human tongue in a package. The [[Millennium Group]] sends offender profiler [[Frank Black (character)|Frank Black]] ([[Lance Henriksen]]) and pathologist Cheryl Andrews ([[C. C. H. Pounder]]) to investigate, as several people have received body parts in the post over the past few years. No connection between the recipients has been found, nor have the bodies the parts have been culled from.


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The body of the bowling alley victim is discovered, missing a tongue. He is identified as a retired police officer, Detective Mellen, who had given false testimony that had sent an innocent man to prison. Black realizes that the killer is motivated by the need to right wrongs such as this, killing those who have gotten away with crimes. Meanwhile, The Judge passes sentence on another victim—a [[slumlord]] whose negligence caused a tenant's death. Bardale is ordered to cut off the landlord's leg while he is still alive; the leg is later found at a postal depot in a package.
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Mike Bardale ([[John Hawkes (actor)|John Hawkes]]) is a violent recidivist who has recently been released from prison again. He is approached by a man calling himself The Judge ([[Marshall Bell]]), who offers Bardale a position in his "court". The Judge is a vigilante, hiring convicts to mete out his version of justice against those he perceives as criminals. Bardale's first "execution" is that of his forebear, Nearman.


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Forensic evidence on the package eventually leads to Bardale, and then to The Judge. The Judge is arrested for questioning and, knowing that there is not enough evidence to warrant holding him, he offers have Black work for him. Black refuses, but The Judge is released. Bardale is incensed that The Judge has manipulated the law to his own ends and passes sentence on him for hypocrisy. Finding Bardale alone in a farmhouse, Black discovers that Bardale has fed The Judge to his pigs.
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The body of the man killed outside the bowling alley is discovered, missing a tongue. It is identified as a retired police officer, Detective Mellen, who had given false testimony that had sent Annie Tisman's late husband to prison. Black realizes that the killer is motivated by the need to right wrongs such as this, killing those who have gotten away with crimes. Meanwhile, The Judge passes sentence on another victim—a [[slumlord]] whose negligence caused a tenant's death. Bardale is ordered to cut the landlord's leg off while he is still alive; the leg is later found in a postal depot in a package.

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Forensic evidence on the package eventually leads to Bardale, and then to The Judge. The Judge is arrested for questioning, and knowing that there is not enough evidence to warrant sentencing him, he offers Black a job with him. Black refuses, but The Judge is released. Bardale is incensed that The Judge has manipulated the law to his own ends, and passes sentence on him for hypocrisy. Finding Bardale alone in a farmhouse, Black discovers that the convict had fed The Judge to his pigs.


==Production==
==Production==
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|source=—The episode's opening quote, from [[Herman Melville]]'s ''[[Moby-Dick]]''}}
|source=—The episode's opening quote, from [[Herman Melville]]'s ''[[Moby-Dick]]''}}


"The Judge" is the first of four episodes of ''Millennium'' to be written by [[Ted Mann (writer)|Ted Mann]], who would go on to write "[[Loin Like a Hunting Flame]]", "[[Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions]]" and the first-season finale "[[Paper Dove]]".<ref name="season1book">{{cite DVD notes |title=Millennium: The Complete First Season |titlelink=Millennium (season 1) |origyear=1996–1997 |others=[[David Nutter]], et al |type=booklet |publisher=[[Fox Broadcasting Corporation|Fox]] }}</ref> The episode marks director [[Randall Zisk]]'s only work for the series.<ref name="season1book"/>
"The Judge" is the first of four episodes of ''Millennium'' to be written by [[Ted Mann (writer)|Ted Mann]], who would go on to write "[[Loin Like a Hunting Flame]]", "[[Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions]]" and the first-season finale "[[Paper Dove]]".<ref name="season1book">{{cite AV media notes |title=Millennium: The Complete First Season |title-link=Millennium season 1 |others=[[David Nutter]], et al |type=booklet |publisher=[[Fox Broadcasting Corporation|Fox]] }}</ref> The episode marks director [[Randall Zisk]]'s only work for the series.<ref name="season1book"/>


The episode features the first appearance by [[C. C. H. Pounder]] as Millennium Group pathologist Cheryl Andrews. Pounder would go on to make another four appearances as the character, appearing across all three seasons.<ref>Genge, p. 102</ref><ref name="force">{{cite episode| episodelink=Force Majeure (Millennium) | title=Force Majeure | series=Millennium | serieslink=Millennium (TV series) |credits =[[Winrich Kolbe]] (director); [[Chip Johannessen]] (writer) | network = [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] | season = 1 | number = 13 |airdate= February 7, 1997}}</ref><ref name="hand">{{cite episode| | title=[[The Hand of St. Sebastian]] | series=Millennium | serieslink=Millennium (TV series) |credits =[[Thomas J. Wright]] (director); [[Glen Morgan]] & [[James Wong (producer)|James Wong]] (writers) | network = [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] | season = 2 | number = 8 |airdate= November 14, 1997}}</ref><ref name="skull">{{cite episode| episodelink=Skull and Bones (Millennium) | title=Skull and Bones | series=Millennium | serieslink=Millennium (TV series) |credits =[[Paul Shapiro (director)|Paul Shapiro]] (director); [[Chip Johannessen]] & [[Ken Horton]] (writers) | network = [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] | season = 3 | number = 6 |airdate=November 6, 1998}}</ref> "The Judge" also marked the final appearance by [[Chris Ellis (actor)|Chris Ellis]] as Group member Jim Penseyres; Ellis had previously appeared in "[[Gehenna (Millennium)|Gehenna]]"<ref>Genge, p. 12</ref> and "[[Dead Letters (Millennium)|Dead Letters]]".<ref>Genge, p. 22</ref> [[John Hawkes (actor)|John Hawkes]], who portrays killer Mike Bardale in the episode, would later go on to work with Mann again on the series ''[[Deadwood (TV series)|Deadwood]]'', first reuniting on that series' first-season finale "Sold Under Sin".<ref name="deadwood">{{cite episode| episodelink=List of Deadwood episodes | title=Sold Under Sin | series=Deadwood | serieslink=Deadwood (TV series) |credits =[[Davis Guggenheim]] (director); [[Ted Mann (writer)|Ted Mann]] (writer) | network = [[HBO]] | season = 1 | number = 12 |airdate=June 13, 2004}}</ref>
The episode features the first appearance by [[C. C. H. Pounder]] as Millennium Group pathologist Cheryl Andrews. Pounder would go on to make another four appearances as the character, appearing across all three seasons.<ref>Genge, p. 102</ref><ref name="force">{{cite episode| episode-link=Force Majeure (Millennium) | title=Force Majeure | series=Millennium | series-link=Millennium (TV series) |credits =[[Winrich Kolbe]] (director); [[Chip Johannessen]] (writer) | network = [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] | season = 1 | number = 13 |airdate= February 7, 1997}}</ref><ref name="hand">{{cite episode| title=[[The Hand of St. Sebastian]] | series=Millennium | series-link=Millennium (TV series) |credits =[[Thomas J. Wright]] (director); [[Glen Morgan]] & [[James Wong (producer)|James Wong]] (writers) | network = [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] | season = 2 | number = 8 |airdate= November 14, 1997}}</ref><ref name="skull">{{cite episode| episode-link=Skull and Bones (Millennium) | title=Skull and Bones | series=Millennium | series-link=Millennium (TV series) |credits =[[Paul Shapiro (director)|Paul Shapiro]] (director); [[Chip Johannessen]] & [[Ken Horton]] (writers) | network = [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] | season = 3 | number = 6 |airdate=November 6, 1998}}</ref> "The Judge" also marked the final appearance by [[Chris Ellis (actor)|Chris Ellis]] as Group member Jim Penseyres; Ellis had previously appeared in "[[Gehenna (Millennium)|Gehenna]]"<ref>Genge, p. 12</ref> and "[[Dead Letters (Millennium)|Dead Letters]]".<ref>Genge, p. 22</ref> [[John Hawkes (actor)|John Hawkes]], who portrays killer Mike Bardale in the episode, would later go on to work with Mann again on the series ''[[Deadwood (TV series)|Deadwood]]'', first reuniting on that series' first-season finale "Sold Under Sin".<ref name="deadwood">{{cite episode| episode-link=List of Deadwood episodes | title=Sold Under Sin | series=Deadwood | series-link=Deadwood (TV series) |credits =[[Davis Guggenheim]] (director); [[Ted Mann (writer)|Ted Mann]] (writer) | network = [[HBO]] | season = 1 | number = 12 |airdate=June 13, 2004}}</ref>


The episode opens with a quotation from [[Herman Melville]]'s 1851 novel ''[[Moby-Dick]]'', taken from chapter forty-two, "The Whiteness of the Whale". Both ''Millennium'' and ''Moby-Dick'' have been described as "a basic conflict between good and evil". In addition, both are "focused on a then-modern view of the world".<ref>Genge, p. 134</ref>
The episode opens with a quotation from [[Herman Melville]]'s 1851 novel ''[[Moby-Dick]]'', taken from chapter forty-two, "The Whiteness of the Whale". Both ''Millennium'' and ''Moby-Dick'' have been described as "a basic conflict between good and evil". In addition, both are "focused on a then-modern view of the world".<ref>Genge, p. 134</ref>
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"The Judge" was first broadcast on the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox Network]] on November 15, 1996;<ref name="wantto">Shearman and Pearson, p. 108</ref> and earned a [[Nielsen rating]] of 7.6, meaning that roughly {{nowrap|7.6 percent}} of all television-equipped households were tuned in to the episode.<ref>Genge, p. ''xviii''</ref>
"The Judge" was first broadcast on the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox Network]] on November 15, 1996;<ref name="wantto">Shearman and Pearson, p. 108</ref> and earned a [[Nielsen rating]] of 7.6, meaning that roughly {{nowrap|7.6 percent}} of all television-equipped households were tuned in to the episode.<ref>Genge, p. ''xviii''</ref>


"The Judge" received mixed reviews from critics. Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book ''Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen'', rated the episode one star out of five, finding its "contrived" plot to be "barely a subtle premise", and noting that "the script unfortunately elevates the lead villain to [[Camp (style)|high camp]]".<ref name="wantto"/> Shearman and Pearson felt that the subject of vigilantism was a suitable one for the series, and that it had "been bubbling under the surface every since the concept of the Millennium Group ... was first mentioned"; however, they ultimately felt that the episode contained "very little to engage the brain".<ref name="wantto"/> Bill Gibron, writing for [[DVD Talk]], rated "The Judge" 4 out of 5, describing it as being "a fine, moody episode". However, Gibron felt that Marshall Bell's character may have been better suited to a recurring role, rather than being killed off during the episode.<ref name="dvdtalk">{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/11615/millennium-season-1/ |title=Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video |first=Bill |last=Gibron |publisher=[[DVD Talk]] |date=July 20, 2004 |accessdate=February 25, 2012}}</ref> Writing for ''[[The A.V. Club]]'', Emily Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode a B-, praising the acting of both Bell and John Hawkes. However, VanDerWerff felt that "The Judge" showed ''Millennium'' to be struggling with its own concept, growing "staid" as a result of only having "the one color to play with".<ref name="avc">{{cite news |url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/unruhethe-judge,46213/ |title="Unruhe"/The Judge" {{!}} The X-Files/Millennium {{!}} TV Club |newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]] |first=Emily Todd|last=VanDerWerff |date= October 16, 2010 |accessdate=February 25, 2012}}</ref>
"The Judge" received mixed reviews from critics. Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book ''Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen'', rated the episode one star out of five, finding its "contrived" plot to be "barely a subtle premise", and noting that "the script unfortunately elevates the lead villain to [[Camp (style)|high camp]]".<ref name="wantto"/> Shearman and Pearson felt that the subject of vigilantism was a suitable one for the series, and that it had "been bubbling under the surface every since the concept of the Millennium Group ... was first mentioned"; however, they ultimately felt that the episode contained "very little to engage the brain".<ref name="wantto"/> Bill Gibron, writing for [[DVD Talk]], rated "The Judge" 4 out of 5, describing it as being "a fine, moody episode". However, Gibron felt that Marshall Bell's character may have been better suited to a recurring role, rather than being killed off during the episode.<ref name="dvdtalk">{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/11615/millennium-season-1/ |title=Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video |first=Bill |last=Gibron |publisher=[[DVD Talk]] |date=July 20, 2004 |access-date=February 25, 2012}}</ref> Writing for ''[[The A.V. Club]]'', Emily Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode a B−, praising the acting of both Bell and John Hawkes. However, VanDerWerff felt that "The Judge" showed ''Millennium'' to be struggling with its own concept, growing "staid" as a result of only having "the one color to play with".<ref name="avc">{{cite news |url=https://www.avclub.com/the-x-files-unruhe-millennium-the-judge-1798166254 |title="Unruhe"/The Judge" {{!}} The X-Files/Millennium |newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]] |first=Emily Todd|last=VanDerWerff |date= October 16, 2010 |access-date=February 25, 2012}}</ref>


==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==
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===References===
===References===
*{{cite book |year=1997 |first1=N. E. |last1=Genge |title=Millennium: The Unofficial Companion |publisher=Century |isbn=0-7126-7833-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/unofficialmillen00nege }}
*{{cite book |year=1997 |first1=N. E. |last1=Genge |title=Millennium: The Unofficial Companion |publisher=Century |isbn=0-7126-7833-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/unofficialmillen00nege }}
*{{cite book | year=2009 | first1=Robert |last1=Shearman |first2=Lars |last2=Pearson | title=Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen|publisher=Mad Norwegian Press|isbn=0-9759446-9-X}}
*{{cite book | year=2009 | first1=Robert |last1=Shearman |first2=Lars |last2=Pearson | title=Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen|publisher=Mad Norwegian Press|isbn=978-0-9759446-9-1}}


==External links==
==External links==
* {{IMDb episode|0648267}}
* {{IMDb episode|0648267}}
* {{Tv.com episode|25869}}


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"The Judge"
Millennium episode
Recurring guest star C. C. H. Pounder made her Millennium début in "The Judge".
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 4
Directed byRandall Zisk
Written byTed Man
Production code4C04
Original air dateNovember 15, 1996 (1996-11-15)
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"'The Judge" is the fourth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on November 15, 1996. The episode was written by Ted Mann, and directed by Randall Zisk. "The Judge" featured guest appearances by Marshall Bell, John Hawkes and C. C. H. Pounder.

Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, is asked to investigate a vigilante (Bell) who uses newly released convicts to execute those he deems guilty.

"The Judge" begins with a quotation from Moby-Dick, a novel that the episode has been compared to thematically. Guest star Pounder would reappear several times in the series, while fellow guest Ellis made the last of his three appearances in this episode. The episode received mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

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In a bowling alley, ex-convict Carl Nearman (J. R. Bourne) watches another man eat his meal before following him outside, where he approaches and kills him. Elsewhere, Annie Tisman (Donna White) receives a human tongue in a package. The Millennium Group sends profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and pathologist Cheryl Andrews (C. C. H. Pounder) to investigate, as several people have received body parts in the mail. No connection between the recipients has been found, nor have the bodies the parts have been culled from.

Mike Bardale (John Hawkes), a violent repeat offender who has recently been released from prison again, is approached by a man calling himself The Judge (Marshall Bell). The Judge, a vigilante, offers Bardale a position in his "court", in which convicts are hired to mete out his version of justice against those he perceives as criminals. Bardale's first "execution" is that of his forebear, Nearman.

The body of the bowling alley victim is discovered, missing a tongue. He is identified as a retired police officer, Detective Mellen, who had given false testimony that had sent an innocent man to prison. Black realizes that the killer is motivated by the need to right wrongs such as this, killing those who have gotten away with crimes. Meanwhile, The Judge passes sentence on another victim—a slumlord whose negligence caused a tenant's death. Bardale is ordered to cut off the landlord's leg while he is still alive; the leg is later found at a postal depot in a package.

Forensic evidence on the package eventually leads to Bardale, and then to The Judge. The Judge is arrested for questioning and, knowing that there is not enough evidence to warrant holding him, he offers have Black work for him. Black refuses, but The Judge is released. Bardale is incensed that The Judge has manipulated the law to his own ends and passes sentence on him for hypocrisy. Finding Bardale alone in a farmhouse, Black discovers that Bardale has fed The Judge to his pigs.

Production

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Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere those things must exist. Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

—The episode's opening quote, from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

"The Judge" is the first of four episodes of Millennium to be written by Ted Mann, who would go on to write "Loin Like a Hunting Flame", "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" and the first-season finale "Paper Dove".[1] The episode marks director Randall Zisk's only work for the series.[1]

The episode features the first appearance by C. C. H. Pounder as Millennium Group pathologist Cheryl Andrews. Pounder would go on to make another four appearances as the character, appearing across all three seasons.[2][3][4][5] "The Judge" also marked the final appearance by Chris Ellis as Group member Jim Penseyres; Ellis had previously appeared in "Gehenna"[6] and "Dead Letters".[7] John Hawkes, who portrays killer Mike Bardale in the episode, would later go on to work with Mann again on the series Deadwood, first reuniting on that series' first-season finale "Sold Under Sin".[8]

The episode opens with a quotation from Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, taken from chapter forty-two, "The Whiteness of the Whale". Both Millennium and Moby-Dick have been described as "a basic conflict between good and evil". In addition, both are "focused on a then-modern view of the world".[9]

Reception

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Also clear in this episode is just how little the show had figured out to use Catherine, as she mostly stumbles in to say, "Hey, one of my co-workers has a client who just got a TONGUE IN A BOX. You know anything about this?" before wandering off.

—The A.V. Club's Emily Todd VanDerWerff on the character of Catherine Black.[10]

"The Judge" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on November 15, 1996;[11] and earned a Nielsen rating of 7.6, meaning that roughly 7.6 percent of all television-equipped households were tuned in to the episode.[12]

"The Judge" received mixed reviews from critics. Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode one star out of five, finding its "contrived" plot to be "barely a subtle premise", and noting that "the script unfortunately elevates the lead villain to high camp".[11] Shearman and Pearson felt that the subject of vigilantism was a suitable one for the series, and that it had "been bubbling under the surface every since the concept of the Millennium Group ... was first mentioned"; however, they ultimately felt that the episode contained "very little to engage the brain".[11] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated "The Judge" 4 out of 5, describing it as being "a fine, moody episode". However, Gibron felt that Marshall Bell's character may have been better suited to a recurring role, rather than being killed off during the episode.[13] Writing for The A.V. Club, Emily Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode a B−, praising the acting of both Bell and John Hawkes. However, VanDerWerff felt that "The Judge" showed Millennium to be struggling with its own concept, growing "staid" as a result of only having "the one color to play with".[10]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b Millennium: The Complete First Season (booklet). David Nutter, et al. Fox.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ Genge, p. 102
  3. ^ Winrich Kolbe (director); Chip Johannessen (writer) (February 7, 1997). "Force Majeure". Millennium. Season 1. Episode 13. Fox.
  4. ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Glen Morgan & James Wong (writers) (November 14, 1997). "The Hand of St. Sebastian". Millennium. Season 2. Episode 8. Fox.
  5. ^ Paul Shapiro (director); Chip Johannessen & Ken Horton (writers) (November 6, 1998). "Skull and Bones". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 6. Fox.
  6. ^ Genge, p. 12
  7. ^ Genge, p. 22
  8. ^ Davis Guggenheim (director); Ted Mann (writer) (June 13, 2004). "Sold Under Sin". Deadwood. Season 1. Episode 12. HBO.
  9. ^ Genge, p. 134
  10. ^ a b VanDerWerff, Emily Todd (October 16, 2010). ""Unruhe"/The Judge" | The X-Files/Millennium". The A.V. Club. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
  11. ^ a b c Shearman and Pearson, p. 108
  12. ^ Genge, p. xviii
  13. ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved February 25, 2012.

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