This is, in my opinion, the first real stumbling block of Miracle Day.  Though this story starts out strong with a couple of episodes, Dead of Night is a pretty good preview of things to come.  Instead of digging into this changed world where people can't die, and what kind of effect this has on society and culture, Miracle Day only occasionally ever really touches on those ideas, and instead, it's really just a generic political-espionage-action thriller in the style of 24.  It feels very of its time and Dead of Night is a good example of that in action.  We are going to spend a lot of time with these characters, but when we slow down a minute and start doing some of this character stuff, well, it doesn't hit that well to me.  Jack and Gwen feel too on the run to have anything meaningful regarding character development, while Esther and Rex kind of feel boring.  It's the start of what ultimately feels like a long haul in watching Miracle Day - a story with some good moments but is about twice as long as it needs to be.

There's like a couple scenes at the bar where people are giving up sobriety over Miracle Day that work but otherwise it feels like you could easily skip right over this one and not miss a damn thing.