EPISODE
Dig - Season 1
Through a series of action and thriller events, the series follows Peter Connelly, a FBI agent who has accepted a task in Jerusalem, he has to investigate in the murder of a female archaeologist. By spending time there, he discovers a conspiracy 2000 years in the making and he seeks to uncover secrets behind it.
3 February 1958, Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia
22 August 1960, Dallas, Texas, USA
6 September 1968, Chernovtsy, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
20 February 1978, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
30 July 2002, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
4 September 1979, Croatia
1974, Queens, New York, USA
March 04, 2015
What might have been a tightly woven tale about an archaeological dig beneath the city (of Jerusalem) has sprawled into the kind of End of Days tale that reaches for epic scope, but comes across as a lot of hot air.March 05, 2015
Tim Kring and Gideon Raff teamed to create this 10-episode miniseries, and while they're smart enough to acknowledge their debt to Raiders of the Lost Ark, they aren't able to match their source material.March 03, 2015
There's one thing for certain: Jason Isaacs was born to play an action hero.March 05, 2015
It's so murky and convoluted that following it requires a lot of work -- far too much work for something so flat-out ridiculous.March 04, 2015
Entertaining but a little too slack for its own good, Dig is perfectly diverting, high-octane fun that's just a few turns of a scribe's screwdriver away from taut and gripping appointment television.March 04, 2015
When a show keeps settling for ready-made tropes, that's a bad omen.March 05, 2015
Describing exactly what's going on in Dig may be a tougher challenge than staying awake throughout Thursday's all-important place-setter.March 05, 2015
The problem arises when these plots become so intricate, and lurk so far beneath the surface, that many viewers will just put down the shovel and decide it's not worth the effort to follow them.March 09, 2015
Dig is being touted as a 10-episode event series, and while it has its moments, it feels like it's trying to be too many things at once and not being quite enough of any of them to be compelling.March 03, 2015
They should have called it "Run."