This Canadian
produced series takes the premise of its UK predecessor and is able to make use
of the more interesting locations of North America. Some things have not
changed- the dinosaurs mostly pop up one a time and there are plenty of scares
and near misses. The gore quotient is slightly higher and the language more ripe
as this is aimed at a wider audience, not just a family one like the original was.
To bridge the gap Connor Temple pops up in the opening and final episodes
though in the first one he makes only oblique references as to why he is there
which probably baffled most of the audience. Instead of having government
involvement behind the operation the series initially portrays billionaire software developer Evan Cross as pursuing a
personal fascination with the anomalies. A handy flashback sequence in the
opener tells us his wife died at the claws of a visiting dinosaur and this is
what spurs him on.
