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Post by marion on Jul 28, 2018 14:33:16 GMT
This series started on ITV last Wednesday. It stars Sean Bean š as a police inspector in 1867 London investigating crimes which, as the name suggests, appear to involve attempts to resurrect the dead/create life or somesuch! I haven't watched it yet but it has an IMDB score of 7.4. Some of the costars are Samuel West, Tom Ward and Ed Stoppard and next week it features Anna Maxwell Martin and Steven Berkoff. So in theory it should be good.....
It first aired on ITV Encore which is why I have never seen or heard of it. BUT they recently aired The Americans on ITV4 which had also been banished to ITV Encore. So maybe we are finally getting to see the shows they hid on that channel on Freeview. Yay!..... assuming there some good shows involved.
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Post by marion on Jul 28, 2018 15:36:13 GMT
Well.I've just watched the first episode and I think it must have been lit by the people who did Jamaica Inn. I could barely see a thing for a.lot of it. I may give it another week but it wasn't all that great really.
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Post by undertheparapet on Aug 18, 2018 16:49:09 GMT
I donāt know if youāve watched any more of these Marion?
This series is a Netflix or Amazon original (I think the former) and I started watching it last week. So, if youāre a subscriber you can see the whole of the first season.
Typically with these specials, the production values are tremendous, because they throw money at them. I didnāt find it hard to see on my iPad, but it is gloomy and filthy, both scenically and psychologically.
In fact, I have only managed one episode at a time, as it is so grim, but at least I havenāt had to sit through adverts.
It is a weird concept though and more like āSilence of the lambsā or Burke and Hare than the Mary Shelley novel (although she does appear in it at Wm Blakeās deathbed, which never actually happened).
I look forward to more tampering with history and literature, and strong performances from a starry cast.
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Post by marion on Aug 18, 2018 16:54:38 GMT
I did watch episode 2 but decided in episode 3 I wasn't really enjoying it so have given up.
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Post by undertheparapet on Aug 18, 2018 17:12:23 GMT
Iāll let you know in a couple of weeks if thereās anything still worth watching!
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Post by Miranda on Aug 18, 2018 18:20:00 GMT
I watched the first episode and thought it was good but... I don't know. I have to be in the right mood to watch something this grim.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2018 20:35:47 GMT
I've been watching this; yes it is very grim (and sometimes grisly!) but it's gripping stuff. Sean Bean is superb, and the rest of the cast are very good, too. Plenty of twists and turns.
It's not without moments of humour, though. The first episode contained at least two tongue-in-cheek allusions to Sean Bean's previous career in Sharpe: Marlott's claim to have formerly been a soldier in the 95th Rifles, and someone whistly Over the Hills and Far Away. In the opening sequence there was also a glimpse of what appeared to be a 1796 Pattern Heavy Cavalry Sword - Sharpe's weapon of choice - though that might have been coincidence. And in a later episode Marlott mentioned having served at Waterloo.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2018 10:52:30 GMT
A startling if rather unsatisfying end. However, they're going straight into series 2 so I won't be left hanging (unlike one main character!) Oddly the Radio Times lists a character in the cast who finished series 1 very dead, but given the subject matter it might be a spoiler rather than a mistake...
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Post by kabuki on Sept 6, 2018 16:27:26 GMT
I've been watching this; yes it is very grim (and sometimes grisly!) but it's gripping stuff. Sean Bean is superb, and the rest of the cast are very good, too. Plenty of twists and turns. It's not without moments of humour, though. The first episode contained at least two tongue-in-cheek allusions to Sean Bean's previous career in Sharpe: Marlott's claim to have formerly been a soldier in the 95th Rifles, and someone whistly Over the Hills and Far Away. In the opening sequence there was also a glimpse of what appeared to be a 1796 Pattern Heavy Cavalry Sword - Sharpe's weapon of choice - though that might have been coincidence. And in a later episode Marlott mentioned having served at Waterloo. I chuckled at the reference to Sharpe. I am really enjoying this series, despite the subject matter. |
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