Then I Fell Down a Tumblr Hole trying to capture an image, gif, quote, something, that would help me convince people to watch this show.
Oh Tumblr, thou art a labyrinth of obsession and sublimated desires. You are scary. And I kind of love you.
Anyhoodle, at approx 4:24 am I gave up, grabbed my Pepsi from the fridge, and committed to a substandard post that will hopefully still be persuasive.
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| This has been popping up in my Netflix recommendations for ages. When will I learn my lesson and listen them? |
Jekyll is a six part mini series (it's actually considered a whole season but I'm not even gonna go into the vagaries of British television right now). And it's written by Steven Moffat. So let that be the warning and the encouragement.
The clever storyline, while "modernizing" the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novella, really acts more as a sequel to the original work. It's a deft little bit of plotting that allows more believability for our pop culture saturated, meta-aware psyches. It's darkly funny, tense, beautifully paced and visually interesting.
It's also acted wonderfully. James Nesbitt, as the lead, as the is at turns gleefully deranged, achingly heartbroken, desperately self loathing, disturbingly violent and even more disturbingly appealing.
The supporting cast are strong and fully formed characters. Special nods to Denis Lawson (Wedge Antilles!) whose dry delivery makes sandpaper seem soggy. And Gina Bellman knocked it out of the park--rising to every challenge and giving the other characters a credible, some may even say equally intimidating, foil.
tl;dr?
ZOMG!11!! Jekyll is da bomb ass shizzy, fo realz! It's streaming on Netflix, so suckahs got no reason to miss it.
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