Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

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.

Hikarist I often find myself turning to Netflix when bored, and I was pleased to stumble upon this single-season show. The show keeps you on the edge of your seat, and I cannot express how deeply impressed I was with Nesbitt's performance. He changed beautifully from one persona to the other and played both parts wonderfully; the supporting cast was wonderful as well. The locations were thoughtfully planned and the flow of the story was easy to follow, with enough twists to keep my interest. The series was excellently done; a brilliant twist on an old favorite of mine. My only disappointment was the shortness of the series.

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.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU BBC series are rejuvenating when compared with the standard series we have elsewhere on the Anglo-Saxon or European markets. An old, old tale is completely redesigned to the modern world, more than one century later. No descendents he had that dear Doctor Jekyll since he died a virgin. But Mr. Hyde had a lot of descendents, because he was no virgin indeed, particularly with the maid of the family. And the very classic doppelganger living inside you, me, or anyone is back on track for one more series of adventures. Of course we are no longer in a jingoistic village society when London was a loose network of big villages and New York one big hamlet in America. So the state and private interests that want to take control of the world are tracking, tracing and hunting the descendant, Dr Jackman. One of the two will have to die, Dr Jekyll or Mr. Hyde. One has a family, wife and twin boys, one Jekyll and one Hyde of course. They, the bad ones, both military and mercenary, try to capture Dr Jekyll in order to turn Mr. Hyde into a super – killing? – machine that could be used in some shadowy and dark business. They had tried to clone the man but that never succeeded, so they want the real man. But Mr. Hyde is a monstrous super-person or superman and it takes more than one bullet to kill him. Dr Jackman is weak of course but he is protected by his doppelganger who will try not to share the damage. That idea has often been used in horror literature by Anne Rice, Stephen King, Clive barker, and quite a few more. But here we are slowly, at times too slowly, moving to a dramatic end that has to be de-dramatized if there is to be a sequel one day. But the best part of this series is not only the creative plot or intrigue, but also the great acting of these TV actors, who are not only TV actors, far from it. That's what is best with BBC programs: they use "normal" actors that act "normally", that is to say very well, and it is a pleasure to watch the episodes that never become humdrum and habitual. It is a very British syndrome: actors work both and equally well for TV and the cinema, and at times the stage. You can very well see an actor in a series tonight, in a theater in Charring Cross Road on the following night and in some cinema on the third night. And that actor, or actress, will be just as good in the three locales. So, what about the next season since we know now this doppelganger-ism can be carried by women and can be invested in twins? We are longing for the next series of six episodes, let's say ten years later.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID