Catharina_Sweden For some months about 20 years ago, this show was my life! I was very unhappy in real life at this time, for various reasons, and I suppose my need for escapism was enormous. And so I happened to watch this series on TV, and it just entered my heart and my soul and my whole being, and exploded... and for some time, I lived quite as much with Duncan and Tessa and Richie in the antique shop, as I lived my real life - which was at that time taking place in a small Austrian town, with a job that I detested, non-empathic colleagues, and hateful flatmates...Of course Duncan/Adrian was in the center of it all. I admired his dark, masculine, mysterious, handsome looks, and every move of his perfect body. I almost loved him - if it is possible to love someone you have never met in reality...Now, when I have been re-watching some of the episodes on Youtube, I am not as impressed anymore. The story is VERY confused and muddled, with enormous plot holes, and almost all the episodes follow the same pattern. A new immortal is introduced, Duncan remembers when he met this person before in history and we are shown back-flashes in period costume, and in the end Duncan fights him and wins (of course). This plot is framed by nice homey scenes with Tess and Richie, and spiced up with love-scenes - often containing both sex and nudity... It becomes very repetitive after ten episodes or so.I would not fall for this series, if I saw it for the first time today, and I would not fall for Adrian/Duncan either. I even do not find him that very attractive anymore - I get a feeling, that without the lines that someone else wrote for him, he would come across as quite stupid... There is too much death, blood, and violence, for one thing. If I got to chose, I would only want to see a sword fight quite occasionally - but spend the time mostly in the homey company of Duncan, Tessa and Richie..! :-)But still - the show has to have SOMETHING, as so many people all over the world, along with me, were caught up at it then in the 90:s. Queen's spurring music is part of it, and the historical scenes that - as far as I can see - were very well researched and staged with the right costumes and props and everything. If one likes to, one can learn a little history from it.

bignastybastard I was always a fan of the Highlander films with Christopher Lambert and knew from the start I would feel the same about the series. I really liked how they expanded on the imortals and brought in the watchers, and different villains like the rogue watchers who saw imortals as an abomination to humanity and wanted to kill them.What annoyed me about the series is every episode seems the same, Mac reminisces about his past, meets an immortal from his past, they do battle, Mac wins and has learned a valuable lesson in life and has closure from an event in his past.Every episode seems to be about an Immortal which annoys me because if Imortals exist then surely this should open it up for all kinds of possibilities. I think the writers could have really expanded on the Highlander franchise if we saw other kinds of things in it, such as maybe Warlocks, witches and other kinds of supernatural elements.That been said I did like the Highlander series, Adrian Paul was great as Duncan MacLeod. There were some fantastic sword fighting scenes and some great stories based around past historical events. I like how we got some new characters too such as Amanda, Methos, Richie, and Joe A great series that would have been better if the writers were able to think outside the box.

movieman_kev This show followed the adventures of Highlander Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul), his girlfriend Tessa, and Richie, a young punk twenty-something that Duncan takes in after the kid tries to rob his house. Duncan also has to deal with many other Highlanders, violent and benign through the course of the series (and varies era's in flashbacks) as well as a secret cabal of mortals known as Watchers. For the most part this show was pretty good considering it's limited budget and I looked forward to it every week, but sometime it started it's gradual decline in it's 5th season, and the 6th season is virtually unwatchable due to all the episodes that were just searching for a spin-off character that season should be stricken from the records as the mere mention of it makes my blood boil. The spin-off "Raven" show sucked balls as well.My Overall Grade: C (if the show had stopped when it should have it would've been a much higher grade)

jeffman52001 I am a big Highlander fan,this show is so wonderful, great cast and crew. Adrian Paul is so wonderful as Duncan MacLeod. The show really does explore the good and bad sides of immortality, Duncan MacLeod is a man of Principle and morals, he was born 400 years ago in the Highlands of Scotland. He has been around the world, made some friends and made enemies too. There are good and evil immortals. The cast consists of Stan Kirsch as Richie Ryan who becomes immortal in season 2, Alexandra Vanderoot as Tessa, MacLeod's girlfriend who knows he's immortal, Jim Byrnes(Wiseguy and Higher Ground) as Joe Dawson, a member of the secret society known as "The Watchers" who know about immortals, the late Werner Stocker as 2000 year old immortal priest, Darius. Peter Wingfield as the oldest immortal, Methos, who is 5000 years old. Duncan MacLeod has fought a lot of evil immortals and defeated them, even the ones who are older that he and more powerful than him, his courage and skills is what it takes to win. My favorite good immortals next to MacLoed are Darius, Methos and Amanda, the 1100 year old immortal, Richie Ryan, Marcus Constatine and Sean Burns. My favorite evil immortals are Kalas, Xavier St. Cloud played by Roland Gift of the 80's pop group "The Fine Young Cannibals", Kronos and Grayson. I also for a good immortal I like Hugh Fitzcairn, played superbly by Roger Daltrey of "The Who". Joan Jett made a guest appearance in the first season episode as immortal Felicia Martens. This show really rocks,they play great songs by Queen, the song "Princes Of The Universe" is the perfect song for the theme music of the show. I give this show 2 thumbs up.