Frankenstein Chronicles with Sean Bean.

If you are a Sean Bean fan, like the type of Sean Bean fan that's watched Sharpe's Eagle and Rifles and all that, you are going to love this show. Grace Never saw those and she watches this with me. It's not so much that she doesn't like it. She thinks it's creepy and doesn't understand all of it. It's true that it feels pretty British. It's got me singing, "Orange and Lemons ring the bells of St. Clemens... You owe me five farthings ring the Bells of St. Martin.."
It's a nice little children's song, but in the context of the story it is creepy as hell. But to me, all the creepiness is a smart creepiness that I don't mind. It's not like the violence porn of Into the Badlands or the stupid type action of Legends. No this series has a whole cast of great actors and actresses and a smart plot and it really is talking about some important issues.

Frankenstein and Galvanism is featured... but now that the only episode I have to watch is the finale, I realize this show is totally about themes like Healthcare, rape laws, and policy.

For instance, there is a date rape in the show that happens off screen. It's just talked about. But the perpetrator, a gentleman (you have to watch Brit shows to understand that a gentleman can and often is the scum of the earth and is still a gentleman. It has to do with birth manners. Sounds crazy but you''l get it if you watch the Sharpe's series. After all, a plantation owner in the states is a "gentleman" right?"

Anyway, the guy is shouting, "Is there a law against what I've done?"

Having taken a few law courses in college I thought back to the original Commonwealth law for rape.  It was some crazy shit. In order for it to be rape the victim had to kick and scream... the WHOLE time. Like if she said no in the beginning and then gave up because she got tired or just passed out, back then, that wasn't rape... by law.

But that's a side story.

The main story is about the Anatomy act and body snatchers and killing people to cut them up and stitch them back together again.. like Frankenstein's monster. There is the modern medicine calling herbal medicine quackery. An herbal medicine for Syphilis is scoffed. Surgey is the new answer to everything. (Remember though this is 1825 but he says a whole lot about the way we do things today, as many people are reaching back to herbal and holistic remedies. I found this argument particularly interesting since for Kung Fu I did all the Teet Da stuff and heard people scoff and treatment, opting for surgery instead. I've been scoffed at myself. So I was glad when the herbal doctor guy got to say what he was about and ended up being much more modern in OUR view when it came to surgery, washing your damn hands, and abortion.

There is also a ton of Sharpe's references that technically make no sense in terms of the plot taking place in 1825, but make total sense in terms of what the viewer is thinking. I mean it's like Sean Bean is an interactive movie star. He says, what you think. Like you know he was Sharpe and you're watching some guy ask him if he was in the military and you think "Wouldn't that be funny if he said 95 th rifles..." and then he bloody says 95 th rifles. It's awesome.

One guy talks about how William Blake was a traitor speaking up for Bonaparte and is really jabbing at Sharpe's err. Mr. Marlot's intellect saying he doesn't know much. And of course your thinking. This guy is Sharpe he fought Napolean man, tell that little shit who he's talking to!

And he does!Even though it has no place in the story. It's awesome.

I guess it's going to come out in the States on A and E. I saw it on Daily motion. It's pretty awesome. And I don't feel like I've wasted my time after watching it.