When I first heared that James Nesbitt was going to be starring in this adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde, I was looking forward to seeing what he would be like in this role, not like anything he has previously done. When I saw the first episode I was really impressed, Nesbitt played a great role as both Dr Jackman and Mr Hyde, and I found the first episode thrilling.
However, for me the genre changed to its intended genre fro the second episode onwards. The drama became much darker and so began the horror it was about to give us. I thought the 'countdown' in episode two with Mr Hyde was the start of the horror, and from here the darkness continued throghout the rest of the series, though it became more of a horror I still thought it was great and kept you gripped to your seat.
What I really liked about it was the way it had been structured. The producers had done it so that it was full of twists. One minute you thought one person had been victim to the horror of Hyde, then later you find out you were completely wrong and it was someone else. This is done as the drama is not done in chronological order, so even though this can make it confusing it all eventually pieces together.
What I found was overdone however were some of the scenes. I felt some of this was really dragged out. In one of the episodes when Jackman was out into a 'box' we were tuning into the next episode to find out what happened to him. However we waited until the end and just as we thought we would find out we were left in a cliffhanger, as most of the following episode was based on Jackmans past.
Overall I feel that 'Jekyll' was a really good modernised version of the original Jekyll and Hyde story and as this is a really hard task to pull of successfully, I think they did a really good job and found this great to watch.
However, for me the genre changed to its intended genre fro the second episode onwards. The drama became much darker and so began the horror it was about to give us. I thought the 'countdown' in episode two with Mr Hyde was the start of the horror, and from here the darkness continued throghout the rest of the series, though it became more of a horror I still thought it was great and kept you gripped to your seat.
What I really liked about it was the way it had been structured. The producers had done it so that it was full of twists. One minute you thought one person had been victim to the horror of Hyde, then later you find out you were completely wrong and it was someone else. This is done as the drama is not done in chronological order, so even though this can make it confusing it all eventually pieces together.
What I found was overdone however were some of the scenes. I felt some of this was really dragged out. In one of the episodes when Jackman was out into a 'box' we were tuning into the next episode to find out what happened to him. However we waited until the end and just as we thought we would find out we were left in a cliffhanger, as most of the following episode was based on Jackmans past.
Overall I feel that 'Jekyll' was a really good modernised version of the original Jekyll and Hyde story and as this is a really hard task to pull of successfully, I think they did a really good job and found this great to watch.