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The Frankenstein Chronicles - Seeing Things
episode 1.2
UK 2015
produced by Carol Moorhead, David Tanner, Frank Doelger (executive), Patrick Irwin (executive), Tracey Scoffield (executive), Justin Thomson (executive), Sean Bean (co), Oliver Butler (co) for Rainmark Films/ITV
directed by Benjamin Ross
starring Sean Bean, Tom Ward, Richie Campbell, Vanessa Kirby, Ryan Sampson, Anna Maxwell Martin, Charlie Creed-Miles, Eloise Smyth, Samuel West, Mark Bazeley, Elliot Cowan, Steven Berkoff, Deirdre Mullins, Lucy Cray-Miller, Jessie Ross, Nicola Lindsay, Kerri Quinn, Steve Wilson, Anthony Morris, Daniel Wiffen, Nathan Wiffen, Stuart Graham, Deirdre Donnelly, Paul Carlin, Joel Gillman, Ciaran Flynn, Matthew McGowan, Patrick FitzSymons, Andrew Bridgmont, Michael William Burns, Simon Millar, Claire Rafferty
written and created by Benjamin Ross, Barry Langford, music by Harry Escott, Roger Goula, visual effects by SSVFX
TV-series The Frankenstein Chronicles, Mary W. Shelley
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Following on the one clue he had, Marlott (Sean Bean) visits artist and
poet William Blake (Steven Berkoff), who's already on his deathbed but
tells him to follow the "beast with the face of a man". At
Blake's, Marlott also meets writer Mary Shelley (Anna Maxwell Martin),
who's full of macabre ideas and gives him some hints - so much so that he
eventually gets hold of her novel Frankenstein. From graverobber
Pritty (Charlie Creed-Miles), Marlott learns about a gang of
"graverobbers" who do not actually rob graves but kill people to
sell their corpses to surgeons. But when he has Pritty followed by his
right-hand man Nightingale (Richie Campbell), Pritty manages to give him
the slip. During an anatomy class Marlott visits that demonstrates the
effects of galvanism on the dead human body, sheeps are driven into the
auditorium, and following the trail of the sheep back, he uncovers a lead
to Sir Warburton (Elliot Cowan), a prominent member of parliament and
activist who opposes surgery as such and tries everything to discredit it,
be it on religious or less lofty grounds. However, when Marlott presents
his findings to Home Secretary Peel (Tom Ward), who has sworn him into
secrecy, Peel's less than happy about the net of intrigue he's presented
with. Returning home that night, he's intercepted by Flora (Eloise Smyth),
a child forced into prostitution who asks for his protection and in return
offers him clues leading to Alice (Jessie Ross), a girl who Marlott is
sure is the key to the mystery. As promising as the first
episode of the series was, this second one doesn't quite live up
to the task. Now it's still well-acted, well-directed, oozes of atmosphere
and has its macabre bits for sure, so totally worth a look, it just falls
a bit short in the story department, failing to tell a homogenous story.
Instead, it just seems to continue setting up events with really not
nothing new to add to the narrative as such, and frankly, it tries a bit
too hard when it comes to namedropping - besides William Drake and Mary
Shelley, we're also presented to a very young Charles Dickens (Ryan
Sampson) when he still went under his journalist pen name Boz. Basically,
the episode still has one interested, just ... not quite so much anymore.
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