Recaps for Zero Hour

ABC's new thriller is 40-something minutes of brain trauma that deserves a second look just to see where the madness goes. //www.tv.com/news/zero-hour-series-premiere-review-anyone-know-what-we-just-watched-30611/

Are you a fan of Dan Brown's conspiracy novels like The Da Vinci Code  or James Rollins' Sigma Force  series? If yes, then you should check out ABC's new drama Zero Hour  premiering tonight. It's a mystery that intertwines the Nazi and religious past with a present day terrorist threat and the possible end of the world. //www.buddytv.com/articles/zero-hour/zero-hour-review-its-time-for-49225.aspx

Say this for "Zero Hour": It is not cookie-cutter television.ABC's new drama, premiering at 8 p.m. ET Thursday (Feb. 14), is a sprawling conspiracy thriller in the mode of "The Da Vinci Code" that involves Nazis, a secretive sect charged with saving the world, an abduction and clocks. Especially clocks.The series opens in Germany in 1938, where the secretive order of Rosicrucians -- "Christian mystics," as they're described later -- tries to stay a step ahead of the Nazis by pulling what looks like a giant coffin from a watery berth under a church. Members of their order have discovered that the Nazis have figured out a way to create human life without childbirth, which is a signal of the end times. Meanwhile, a dozen clockmakers in their employ are hard at work on their timepieces.Cut to present-day Brooklyn. Hank Galliston (Anthony Edwards, in his first series since "ER"), the editor of Modern Skeptic magazine,... //blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/02/zero-hour-review-anthony-edwards-is-on-the-clock-in-abcs-preposterous-da-vinci-code-esque-drama.html

HitFix's Alan Sepinwall reviews "Zero Hour," the new ABC drama starring Anthony Edwards as a reporter investigating a mystery involving evil Nazi clocks. //www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/review-abcs-evil-nazi-clock-drama-zero-hour-isnt-quite-terrible-enough