'The Passage' Season 1: The backstories of death row prisoners-turned-virals raises the Fox show above its peers
From the pilot episode to its latest, the genre-bending Fox series 'The Passage,' has been an emotional ride, and that's not something you expect out of a show said to be about blood-thirsty "vampires" set in a dystopian backdrop.
The first episode introduced us to Amy Bellafonte (Saniyya Sidney), who was orphaned overnight only to be kidnapped the next day by the government, who are running a secret facility carrying out inhumane experiments on a section of people such as prisoners on death sentences and now, an orphan child. In the pilot itself, a bad cop Brad Wolgast (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) has a change of heart and instead of taking Amy to the facility in Colorado, where he is dutifully supposed to, he sets on a mission to rescue and protect Amy.