Baal_Azazel

I'm amazed to see people talking of this as if it's some great work of fiction. Nearly every single character is just a shallow stereotype; and usually the worst kind. Hysterical women, thieving Irish lout, and on and on.

The whole thing hangs on an historical fraud suspected by a man whose conscience pricks him in later life, but is mainly a multitude of people with hardly any redeeming qualities.

The only positive I can say is that it manages to be extremely funny it's so bad. Foreign accents included.

I didn't care about the story, such as there was one. It was like what you'd get if you trapped someone from childhood in a windowless room, with only Barbara Cartland novels and the Daily Mail from the early 20th century to read, and then they too started writing novels.

I thought I'd give it a go, though suspicious that out of 22 votes it had a higher score that even really high quality stuff doesn't get; usually a sign of people involved in production upvoting. I'm only going on the first episode because I sat through it just to be fair, even though the acting was terrible and the plot a re-hash of so many stories like it. Nothing original and so tedious I wouldn't watch the rest. Watch if you like bad actors playing out predictable stories.

I've tried to give this a chance but it gets more and more painful each time I watch. It's not just the wooden acting. It's like someone got a book on folklore out of the library and just recycles the stories without any real kind of originality. And all the macho posturing is too much. Really laughable. When either of them tries to show emotions it reminds me of Joey's 'smell the fart' acting in 'Friends'. All in all it's pretty one dimensional. I suppose that when it comes down to it, Manichaean world-views don't leave much scope for nuance. The closest it seemed to come to anything vaguely new was in the storyline with the vampires who were trying to stay away from feeding on humans and be left in peace. Maybe it's asking too much of a story that sticks pretty close to the Christian parable of Good v. Evil, right down to the rosaries and Latin exorcisms but I long to see something that goes beyond these same old tropes that have been done to death.