Jekyll Season 1 Disk 1

Episode 1:
As you can probably surmise from the name of this show, it's a retelling of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Much like the recent reboot of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson characters in the show Sherlock, Jekyll is set in modern times, essentially 'today' and relies heavily on current technology to tell the story.
You can tell right off the bat that this show is a drama, but it's hard to pin that down, as I kept excepted funny to happen by the way several of the actors Meera Syal and Fenella Woolgar as the private detectives Miranda and Min, and Patterson Joseph who is completely over the top as Banjamin Lennox. I was really having a hard time deciding if they were spoofing what was going on, playing coy (which you by now I blame on the director) or if they were being straight up so that we would have something very different from how the characters turn out later in the series.
The two women in the Doctor's life, that would be Dr. Tom Jackman played James Nesbitt, are the wife, Claire played by Gina Bellman and the assistant Katherine Reimer played by Michelle Ryan. Both characters are extremely serious all the time and aren't going for the over the top shtick at all, which makes their performances quote stand out from the others.
The main character, or is that characters, of Jackman/Hyde is played marvelously by Nesbitt. What the man can do with just a pair of lifts in his shoes is quite impressive. I really like the way that we see the Hyde part of ther personality evolve over the course of the episode, while  the Jackman part is fighting just to hold on.
Oh, and because they make such a big deal out of showing the Claire and Katherine characters wearing tight sweaters, putting on tight sweaters or taking off tight sweaters, I feel I should say something about it, and I guess that something is like, 'hey, I noticed. I like sweaters.' or something like that.

Episode 2:
This time out, we get the first big reveal, well, I guess round of reveals. There are no surprises this time out, the guy you think is keeping tabs on him is keeping tabs on him, the girl you think is really on his side even though the cut shots make her appear to be working against him really is on his side.
Benjamin Lennox is quite the character, much more complex than his silly accent would have you believe (by silly, I mean a Southern accent), I mean that's why he keeps slipping in and out of the accent right? Because we're seeing a complex character? Oh. We're not? That is really too bad.
My general impression of this ep is "poor lion". Hunt the people, not the big kitty cats.

Episode 3:
Finally, we get some movement on the story and yet they manage to make you feel like you're not getting movement because there is too much movement. Let me explain. Jackman goes to his friend's house, the friend who has been keeping tabs on him for the last 20 plus years for the secret organization that we don't yet have a name for. Mrs. Jackman is there and gets to see her husband transform into Hyde and proves that she is as tough as Hyde. When the organization comes to take Hyde in, Hyde kills the annoying Lennox who is for no reason that I have been able to discern threatening to kill the Jackman family. That is what hapens in the story. What we see on screen is continuous flashing back and flashing forward and many small scenes or parts of scenes played multiple times. Sometimes it was easy to follow, but often is was just difficult enough to be a real distraction.
One thing that is holding true, Hyde is a lot more interesting than Jackman.

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