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I saw the first two episodes

posted 9 years ago by doktorf
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Potential to be quite good! The principal actors are all great. I was a little put off by the cliche teaming of Houdini and Doyle with a lady cop, an incredibly rare person in 1910 London, but she is a pretty good character. The scripts are pretty well written. It's still a bit of a raw product, but I can see the show becoming great over time as the characters become more filled out.

I was quite impressed with how accurately they recreated the water cell illusion. They carefully studied photos of Houdini performing that trick and recreated all the props perfectly.

[–] prydain17 9 years ago

So are the cases they're investigating like Scooby-Doo where there is an explanation for everything, or is actual supernatural stuff happening? That's the one thing I haven't been able to figure out yet from the promos and reading up on it.

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"No! He is imprinted on you like a gay duckling. If you don't wean him off you slowly, he'll die."

[–] doktorf 9 years ago

Yeah, at least in these first two there are definitely non-supernatural explanations, and they would have gotten away with it if it weren't for these meddling celebrities.