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Post by Harold of Whoa on Mar 30, 2018 3:41:10 GMT
I'm only 3 or 4 into Season 1, but I really like this show so far. A very moody and somber tone is established and maintained. It looks great, in a grimy, gritty 19th Century London sort of way. Sean Bean is excellent as a syphilitic investigator haunted by his past and maybe (or maybe not) hallucinations, and getting caught up both in a political conflict and a grisly, creepy mystery. The politics and social commentary aspects are keenly ambitious but smart and balanced (for the most part.)
And there's a black assistant detective...and they actually make a joke about the fact that he sucks at tailing people through the streets of London.
Interesting use of some historical figures in this, like William Blake and Mary Shelley (this is not actually a re-telling of her novel; that exists within the story universe.)
Being on the cusp of the Scientific Age, where surgeons are pushing parliament to give them monopolistic control over the practice of medicine, as well as legal right to take unclaimed bodies of poor people for anatomy schools, is portrayed as a prospect rife with opportunity for abuse and expanded class inequity.
It's worth a look, and there are not that many episodes to go through, so there's no huge time commitment. Available on Netflix, I believe.
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