Warehouse 13, Syfy, Mondays 9pm
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There are two Secret Service agents, Pete Lattimer and Myka Bering. Pete seems pretty casual and intuitive (he sometimes gets "vibes"), whereas Myka is more professional. Also there's frequent references to something that happened on one of her past cases, which she deeply regrets. Anyway, the two of them get forced to start working for Warehouse 13, a secret storage facility in South Dakota. The place is overseen by Artie Nielsen, their new boss. He's rather eccentric. He answers to the mysterious Mrs. Frederic. Meanwhile, Pete and Myka's old boss at the Secret Service, Daniel Dickinson, tries to get his agents back, though this doesn't seem to be possible. Nevertheless, they remain in occasional contact with him, which they're not supposed to do. Oh, another character is a woman named Leena, who runs the local bed & breakfast where Pete and Myka are now staying. She can read auras, and also works for Warehouse 13 in some capacity.

Anyway... Pete and Myka's new job is to track down and obtain artifacts which seem to have supernatural or paranormal effects, or whatever, and bring the objects back to Warehouse 13, to be safely stored until they can be understood... which may never happen. But the important thing is, most if not all such objects are dangerous in some way, so they have to be kept under wraps. But there are some things that agents of Warehouse 13 can use from time to time, most notably the Farnsworth, a video communication device Pete and Myka use to stay in touch with Artie when they're out investigating artifacts; and an electrical gun called the Tesla. Um... so I guess some artifacts will be sort of mystical or whatever, the stuff of fantasy, while other artifacts may be more technological, often with a retro feel, having been invented by people like Edison (or obviously Tesla and Farnsworth), but never made available to the public. Other things... may be even more abstract, like a piece of music that puts people into a sort of trancelike state of happiness.

Before long, we see that someone is trying to hack the warehouse, and Artie has to deal with that. And soon it turns out the hacker is Claudia Donovan, a young woman who Artie knew 12 years ago, when she was a young girl, whose brother Joshua was attempting a scientific experiment that left him trapped in interdimensional space. Since then, she has tried to get him back, and now she forces Artie (who had believed him dead) to help. After they get him back, Claudia starts working for the warehouse, herself.

Well, in the course of the first season, we slowly begin to learn a bit more about various things, including the fact that the Warehouse is actually controlled by mysterious people called "Regents." Also, there's a former agent, Artie's old partner, James MacPherson, who seems to have a vendetta against the Warehouse, and Artie in particular. In the latter part of the season, he becomes the main antagonist, and our heroes begin to concentrate on finding and catching him.... There's a cliffhanger at the end of season one, which is resolved in the season two premiere... which introduces a new antagonist: H. G. Wells (who turns out to be a woman). I've often enough seen the writer pop up as a character in science fiction shows and such, usually as an inventor whose "fictional" stories were based on reality, but this... is even more of a twist than I'm used to. There are some twists during the second season, in the question of whether H.G. is really a good guy or a bad guy, and I don't want to spoil how that turns out. Though it does lead to Myka making a hard decision at the end of the season. Other events in season 2 include Pete getting a girlfriend named Kelly (though that doesn't last), a crossover episode with Eureka, and of course various standalone cases (some better than others) in addition to the major story arc involving H.G.

Season 3 starts with Pete getting a new partner, an ATF agent named Steve Jinks, who has the ability to always know whether a person is lying or telling the truth. Pete is reluctant to accept him, as he wants to get Myka to return (after having quit the warehouse at the end of season 2, for reasons I won't go into). She ends up returning by the end of the first episode of the season, though apparently Jinks is going to stay, as well. Also, there's going to be a new villain this season, who clearly knows all about the warehouse. I look forward to learning more about that.

So... not sure what else to say right now. The series definitely improves the further into it you get. The regular cases can be either really lame or really cool. The show's humor can be kinda lame or pretty funny. The characters are likable (especially Artie and Claudia), and the overall mythology of the show is definitely interesting. Also, the girls are all pretty cute. Anyway, I should mention that I'm rather unsure what category to put this entry in. In season one I had it in the "supernatural & paranormal" section, but when season two started, I moved it to "science fiction." I still think it'd go as well under things like "fantasy," "mysterious," "quirky," or maybe even "weird." But... I guess sci-fi will do for now. I may change my mind again, though.