The problems in Threshold were never to do with its ideas.

And for the most part it wasnt to do with the execution, either.

Its fascinatingly grotesque, as we see Paris slowly melt into this strange, increasingly broken being.

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So yes, Threshold is a failure of an episode in a lot of ways.

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