Crusoe

This show is well worth the effort to watch. It's "Horatio Hornblower" meets "Castaway" meets "Pirates of the Caribbean." It has plots and a sub plot that will keep your attention and make it difficult to wait a week for the next episode! It's clean and Crusoe has exemplary integrity through very difficult odds. Each week you will learn a new piece of information about how Crusoe got to the island, and how he and Friday became inseparable. Unless you are a hyper-critical couch potato that has nothing better to do than rip apart well-rounded TV shows, you'll love this show! It definitely beats those shows full of social drama, immorality, and graphic psychos. If I wanted to see that I could walk outside and look around.

Thought this was a solid show. There is some violence and blood, but not excessive and is certainly family friendly. The friendship between Crusoe and Friday is the glue of the show, and it's done very well. I get a mix of Swiss Family Robinson with some of the fun, lighthearted elements of Pirates of the Caribbean.

I thought the acting was very good by our 2 leads Crusoe and Friday. People dunking on Crusoe's accent - meh I don't care. I thought it was fine. If anything, I thought Friday's accent sounded a bit off. The scenery of the island and the treehouse were outstanding. The sheer number of gadgets that Crusoe had rigged up was a bit much and took out some of the realism.

The show starts with Crusoe already well-established on the island. It then gradually sprinkled in his back story, and that was done really well. But it did result in the show bogging down here and there in the first half of the series...particularly since our 2 guys are living life on easy mode with virtually no issues except for island visitors. In fact, now that I think about it, every "issue" they had came from other people who came to the island. I would have liked to see them struggle with just "island life" a little bit.

The show really picks up in the 2nd half of the series, and the final 2 episodes leaves you with a very satisfying "crisis resolution".

Would strongly recommend watching.

If you like this kind of thing, you'll like Crusoe but you have to get over the "cheese".

Its predictable, and the acting isn't the greatest.

The sets are incredible.

All of these things can be said exactly the same for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (which I own the first season on DVD so I obviously like it) and Xena: Warrior Princess.

Since I liked both those shows, I guess it remains to be seen whether I'll like it for this one.

I find the show passable, and amusing if you're looking for something light and fluffy thats obviously not meant for anything serious.

This is a great series and I'm annoyed that I never knew of its existence when it was on the air. It is one of many that could have done well but ignorant executives of these networks again sabotage a good series because they think they know what people wanted. They gave it bad time slots and little marketing.

The series has many great actors we all know from other great series and movies. In additionto the big obvious names they also have actors from shows and movies like Black Sails and Pirates of the Caribbean. The she show was out in between the great success of Pirates of the Caribbean. Yes there are some cheesy parts at times or not that great of extras, but what show doesn't. The story line is great and all of the main actors are good. It pulls you in and gets you vested fast and keeps you entertained.

Its been too long so no matter the love it gets thanks to streaming we will never get a season 2 and that is very saddening.

This TV series is a very solid adaptation of the original classic novel, but with a modern style. Considering there is only (for the most part) two characters, everything relies on the lead actors and they deliver up to standard. The setting is also wonderful to look at and the storyline is gripping.