robkempgee Seems they have borrowed Sharpe's sword (Ep 1)... A 1796 Heavy Cavaly Trooper sword carried by a naval bod is marginally offensive. Good show though!

smithtk The first few episodes were great-- a murder/serial killer investigation. Most of the acting was good. Sean Bean was, as always, great. I even got over the fact that Boz (Charles Dickens) was about 15 in 1827 and didn't start as a political journalist for another five years or so. Why, oh why, did this have to be dragged out to be some sort of science-fiction piece of rancid baloney? Why on earth was the ending open-ended? There is absolutely no reason to continue this story. It should have ended far before it did.

michellemarietheresa Fresh Plot on a Ghoulley Theme....GHoulley to the MAX man.......

rupaabdi The Frankenstein Chronicles is one of the few television series which almost succeeds in accomplishing a multi-media creation which has the multiple layers and depths of a novel. It is a crime period drama based in 1827 London. Its story line is as muddy, gritty and dark as the streets of London in those times. It is a beguiling take on Mary Shelley's Gothic classic from the viewpoint of a detective, Marlott (Sean Bean) who, in his attempts to solve the mystery behind bodies of children stitched together which keep washing up on the shore, ends up becoming Frankenstein's monster himself. The creators of these series have managed to come up with sordid and grisly characters of all shapes and sizes, perhaps a reflection of the underbelly of human consciousness. The sets are bleak and gloomy and the visuals require a tough stomach. Underlying the dirt and wide spread poverty , blood and gore, brutalized women and children, and depraved intellects is the art and poetry of William Blake.The creators of this series have very interestingly juxtaposed the monster of William Blake's visions with Frankenstein's monster with all its shades of grey. The true meaning of Blake's visions and imagery slowly dawn on the protagonist, Marlott, as he undergoes a kind of the catharsis, first during his mercury induced dazed illusions and next as Frankenstein's monster hanging between life and death, heaven and hell, questioning the morality behind medical science's attempts at conquering bodily death at the cost of losing the soul.