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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 12
Runtime: 42 min.
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Premiered: 2009

Format:

Series

Genres:

Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Created By:

D. Brent Mote, Jane Espenson

Actors:

Allison Scagliotti, C. C. H. Pounder, Eddie McClintock, Genelle Williams, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Simon Reynolds

Made In:

USA

Premiered at:

SyFy

Ware­house 13 is the lat­est SyFy orig­inial series, pre­miered in july, and recently com­pleted first series run. W13 fea­tures decent writ­ing and very good cast­ing (with some excep­tions) to make up for the not so orig­i­nal idea behind the series. In august SyFy renewed the series for the sec­ond sea­son, and hope­fully they will fur­ther improve and cor­rect some of the prob­lems the first sea­son had. But, all in all this is very enter­tain­ing show.

Story

Ware­house 13 is a large stor­age facil­ity some­where in South Dakota and as the name sug­gests that it is 13-​th incar­na­tion through his­tory way back to Library of Alexan­dria. And, in this Ware­house are stored objects and arti­facts with some unex­plained pow­ers, col­lected through­out the his­tory. W13 is run by very secre­tive orga­ni­za­tion in US admin­is­tra­tion that can even con­trol Secret Ser­vice. And, at the begin­ning we are intro­duced to two Secret Ser­vice agents that are recruited to join the Ware­house team and start col­lec­tion objects and solve arti­fact related cases.

Cast of Ware­house 13

Cast

Series cast is excel­lent for the most part. Start­ing with the agents Bering and Lat­timer played by Joanne Kelly and Eddie McClin­tock, they really have a good chem­istry and are in a way like Scully and Molder (X-​Files), but with con­stant bick­er­ing and mak­ing fun of each other. Saul Rubinek is also good as the agent in charge for the Ware­house. Beau­ti­ful Genelle Williams plays Leena, mys­te­ri­ous owner of the bad and break­fast near the Ware­house. And, in the mid­dle of the sea­son they are joined by young Clau­dia Dono­van (played by Alli­son Scagliotti). And she is one annoy­ing char­ac­ter, and one mem­ber of the cast too many. She is a total cliche as a hip and techno wiz kid and very annoy­ing. And one thing that should go in sea­son 2.

Pro­duc­tion

Visual effects are not that good, and the attempts of using archaic tech­nol­ogy is not very well done. This is some­thing they defin­i­tively need to improve on.

Con­clu­sion

W13 is fun to watch and very enter­tain­ing, and with few improve­ments in sea­son 2 it can get even to be an excel­lent show. For now, catch the reruns on SyFu and wait for the DVD release.