Second Chance.
A futuristic look at Frankenstein, by way of of a hard boiled cop drama. Wunderkind tech industrialists bring a 75 year old sheriff back from the dead, and back to his youth, until the old grumpy codger looks like that #### Warlow from True Blood.
No twists and turns, but no obvious defects either, and I do like a lot of the secondary cast because of their presence in other superb projects over the years like The Loop, Aliens in America, White Collar and Greek.
I'm not sure why but the so called star in the leading role is always the weak link in genre shows like this, even though he's an accomplished British actor pretending to be a yank. Poor bastard has to act left handed. So yeah, the hero in this piece has super powers. Stronger, faster, tougher, better. The usual, from having his body rebuilt by super science, which means every week I suppose, that he's going to be solving crime with his super powers while being happy that he's not old any more but sad that his kids and granddaughter don't recognize him any more.
Dilshad Vadsaria is cripplingly attractive, but I'm familiar with tolerating that burden. She plays one of the wunderkinds: Mary Godwin, which is of course Mary Shelly's maiden name. There's probably other literary references in there I'm too stupid to notice, but this is barely horror, and barely science fiction. Back from the dead sure, but back form the dead and handsome with the intellect of a grumpy old man? It's more like timetravel than anything else, since as this old cop has regained his youth, he kinda wants it to be 1977 again so that he can relive his prime like a real man should, full of porter house steak, bourbon and cigarettes, which because of the limitations of his resurrection, he's probably going to find difficult to carry through on.
I saw this advertised months ago as "The Frankenstein Code" which was a much better name. The original episode order from FOX has already been cut to 11 episodes, so unless there's unexpected swell about the leads shirtlessness, I doubt that there's going to be a second season.
Meh?
Watchable, but 6 out of 10.
A futuristic look at Frankenstein, by way of of a hard boiled cop drama. Wunderkind tech industrialists bring a 75 year old sheriff back from the dead, and back to his youth, until the old grumpy codger looks like that #### Warlow from True Blood.
No twists and turns, but no obvious defects either, and I do like a lot of the secondary cast because of their presence in other superb projects over the years like The Loop, Aliens in America, White Collar and Greek.
I'm not sure why but the so called star in the leading role is always the weak link in genre shows like this, even though he's an accomplished British actor pretending to be a yank. Poor bastard has to act left handed. So yeah, the hero in this piece has super powers. Stronger, faster, tougher, better. The usual, from having his body rebuilt by super science, which means every week I suppose, that he's going to be solving crime with his super powers while being happy that he's not old any more but sad that his kids and granddaughter don't recognize him any more.
Dilshad Vadsaria is cripplingly attractive, but I'm familiar with tolerating that burden. She plays one of the wunderkinds: Mary Godwin, which is of course Mary Shelly's maiden name. There's probably other literary references in there I'm too stupid to notice, but this is barely horror, and barely science fiction. Back from the dead sure, but back form the dead and handsome with the intellect of a grumpy old man? It's more like timetravel than anything else, since as this old cop has regained his youth, he kinda wants it to be 1977 again so that he can relive his prime like a real man should, full of porter house steak, bourbon and cigarettes, which because of the limitations of his resurrection, he's probably going to find difficult to carry through on.
I saw this advertised months ago as "The Frankenstein Code" which was a much better name. The original episode order from FOX has already been cut to 11 episodes, so unless there's unexpected swell about the leads shirtlessness, I doubt that there's going to be a second season.
Meh?
Watchable, but 6 out of 10.
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