UnowPriceless hyped garbage

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

gridoon2018 This series has a lot going for it: an intriguing premise, a great music score, a magnetic lead pair of performances by James Nesbitt, a solid supporting cast, a simultaneously cheeky and dark sense of humor. But the story could have been told in a 2-hour movie instead of six 55-minute episodes. I thought the earlier episodes were the best, because they focused more on the psychological aspects of two minds, and two personalities, occupying, and fighting for control of, the same body. In the later episodes, the focus switches to a rather clichéd "super-secret-powerful-evil" organization that seems to come from a spy show like "Alias". The final episode does give us some big surprises (the truth about Claire), but also some unforgivable cheats (the "not sharing the damage" thing, completely contradicting the previous five episodes). Steven Moffat has a habit in "Doctor Who" of devising such ingenious and fiendish traps for the Doctor and his companions that they can only get out of them by the script cheating, and this habit followed him in "Jekyll". Plus the series ends on a cliffhanger that will never be resolved.

A_Different_Drummer Living on this side of the pond, we tend to forget that our language, theatre, drama -- even our humour -- originated in merry old England. And, clever as we may be, these guys are often clever-er. (Factoid -- comparing the writing credits on American vs. British shows, one is forever amazed how the US products can list up to 2 dozen writers, and the UK version, usually just one!) So here is the deal. Someone decided, why not re-imagine Jekyll and Hyde? I mean, hey, Jerry Lewis did it and achieved a one-hit wonder (although arguably he produced a different film than he had originally intended). So off we go again, this time with a miniseries about a pretty normal guy who (one discovers later) is a descendant of the original Dr. J., and the awkward steps he must take to meld "two lives in one body." Including, on top of all the other bother, not telling the darker side about this wife and kids. Brilliant? It's "bloody marvellous," and James Nesbitt does a great job, acting in both roles (the two sides of the character) like a parent you really don't want to mess with. The ending is, to be kind, over-written, but overall a spectacular riff on an old theme.

rwk2 This series is like a set of six sprints. First episode was OK but pacing itself. Nothing too extraordinary, just gathering steam. It really hits its stride during episodes two through four. So much so that right there it's clear whose going to win the race. Hence, at the tail end episodes five and six are still solid but not as wicked cool as the middle ones. I was nervous in the beginning of number six, looked like it was going to go way cliché, but it came back strong.A little sample of some of the coolest lines (and there are MANY):"Trust me, I'm a psychopath!" and "My Daddy wants to have a word with you."One of the things this series pulls off amazingly well is the use of flashbacks. It was clearly plotted out from the get-go (unlike LOST) and hence it all fits together perfectly. I haven't been this impressed by a whole series in a good long while.Awesome.

rorshach9 The only way I can imagine that so many people think so highly of this series is if they only watched the first episode and didn't bother with the rest. The entirety of this mini series is nothing but a lot of build up, threats and promises of activities that would make this a good show with no payoff whatsoever.The first episode is really good. There is so much potential for a great story. But the creators spent years shopping the premise around to various studios before finally getting the green light and after watching all of the episodes one gets the impression that they only wrote the first episode and then slapped the rest of them together after funding came in.During all of the episodes Hyde makes continual threats of violence, cannibalism, sexual abuse, acts of debauchery, etc. Outside of them pointing out that he frequents prostitutes none of these things ever happen. Hyde beats up some bad guys. That's it. That's all. Spoiler alert! Instead of building up to a shocking finale Hyde sacrifices himself for his wife. Nothing else. We watch him for six hours spitting insults and promises about the vicious and savage proclivities that permeate his thoughts and he does little more than barking without biting.I'm the first person to say there's no call for violence for violence's sake. I'm the first person to point out that story is far above explosions and machine guns and gratuitous sex. But don't have the lead character promise all of the above and give us none. Sucks to be you in the BBC won't air things like that but, as with the prostitutes, there are ways around anything. The best horror movies are those that do not show you the creature/monster/whatever until the end if at all. By the same token this line of thinking can be extended to anything that would prompt censors to baulk at whatever behavior hits the screen.All in all don't make promises you can't keep and if you're going to write and rewrite a pilot episode for years the least you could do is have some concept of how to finish the damned series. As for everyone who seems to think this show is great... well I just don't know what to say for you. Or to you for that matter other than how bad is the stuff you're watching now if you think this show is great?