'Delete' review: Series predicts own fate

Now it's the whole blasted Internet that's faceless but deadly on the rampage. The world's computer chips unite to form an out-of-control artificial intelligence linking mainframes, laptops, cellphones and even cars to wreak havoc on baffled humans.

Who could possibly stop this new "living entity"? Security experts led by Matt Frewer give it a go. So does America's military. But only a Pittsburgh reporter (Erin Karpluk) and a teen hacker (Keir Gilchrist) could really get the job done.

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Thank goodness for '80s autos, paper maps and Seth Green, who pops up (too) late to breathe some itchy life into these conniptions. Green brings cyberskills and massive firepower while decrying "all the toxic crap people stream through their keyboards."

Or their TV sets. Reelz is trying to break through cable clutter by buying up splashy movies/miniseries like this one and Sept. 9's David James Elliott effort, "Exploding Sun." Here's the high concept: Name "stars" go slumming. Life itself is threatened. Things blow up.

But just because you throw it at the screen doesn't mean we stick.

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