User Reviews

Good scenery, good actors but no story at all, no characters' solidity, but lots of gore and sex (often mixed) without motivation nor plausibility. It's a pity as the premise (several well known characters from different stories: Dracula, Jack the Reaper, Dorian Gray, Frankenstein) could have cooked an interesting show in a rich historical setting. To be honest, it falls flat in a few episodes so one does not waste much time

Eva Green, Timothy Dalton, Josh Harnett, ils n’ont pas lésiné chez Showtime mais que voulez-vous, quand y a pas d’idées, y a du pétrole…Ah bah non, même pas en fait. Juste des vampires et autres monstres (Frankenstein ?! Dracula ? et puis quoi encore ?!…) dans une histoire inexistante (la grève des scénaristes, encore ?) et des personnages sans aucune épaisseur (les acteurs ont l’air de se faire **** n’est pas l’environnement de l’Angleterre de la fin du 19ème siècle qui apporte quoi que ce soit à cette nullité, bien au contraire. Une série abêtissante et crétinisante qu’on arrête très rapidement, tellement elle nous gave à fond les ballons. Nous la conspuons et la conchions !

A superb show from start to finish! Eva Green and Rory Kinnear give outstanding performances.

I had high hopes for this show, but it was crap. The writing was bad, the characters lacked motivation, the episodes were just the usual garbage thrown together with one or two dramatic moments contrived to make it seem like something was happening. I think the low-point for me was probably Frankenstein's monster. He's miscast (though I like the actor, he just lacks the brute physicality the monster needs). Then he dribbles long, self-pitying, pseudo-philosophic soliloquys before tearing somebody's liver out with his bare hands. The effect is unintentionally humorous. Then there's all the hugger-mugger and cryptic looks, the misplaced glamor, etc., etc. This show is just the usual disaster with regards to character and plot. Nothing make sense. The action scenes are mindless and intended to dazzle by their sheer speed and complexity, but are always poorly motivated.