Jekyll - digg this
BBC America's Jekyll came on last night and I enjoyed the crap out of it. James Nesbitt plays Tom Jackman who, we come to find out, has blanks in his memory. Rather than simply being caused by the horror of his realizing that he's not American, it turns out that he becomes this evil, insanely strong and fast psycho with much better fashion sense. He distances himself from his family and hooks up with a really hot psychologist (Michelle Ryan who will be the Bionic Woman) to see if he can control the beast within. Eventually we find out that he's somehow related to the original Dr. Jekyll (who is in this universe real, though that's not widely known) and that the good doctor is a foundling.
This is another of those instances where if we Yanks had done this it would have sucked. We would have added all manner of CGI and Hyde would not have been nearly as scuzzy-cool. And as is the case with a couple of other Brit shows I've seen this is more mini-series than series. There are six episodes and that's that. I've see the first two and can't wait for the rest.
Rumor is that Nesbitt will be playing the next Dr. Who. Also during this show I got to see previews for Torchwood a sort of X-files thing. I'll be checking that out as well.
God bless you cable for bringing BBCA into my home!
