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The Frankenstein Chronicles - A World Without God
episode 1.1
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, Sean Hanrahan, Shaun Blaney, Packy Lee, Tony Flynn, Joel Gillman, Tom Ward, Patrick FitzSymons, Charlie Creed-Miles, Samuel West, Vanessa Kirby, Elliot Cowan, Deirdre Donnelly, Deirdre Mullins, Stuart Graham, Gary Crossan, Faolan Morgan, Kit Connor, Robert Render, Richie Campbell, Ryan Sampson, Ed Stoppard, Gerry O'Brien, Corey McKinley, Joe Tucker, Lucy Cray-Miller, Jessie Ross, Steven O'Neill, Andrew Havill, Eloise Smyth, Robbie Gee, Elisha Stanley, Fernanda Lara, Derek Mayne
written and created by Benjamin Ross, Barry Langford, music by Harry Escott, Roger Goula, visual effects by SSVFX
TV-series The Frankenstein Chronicles
review by Mike Haberfelner
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London, 1827: Originally the river police only wanted to arrest a gang
of opium smugglers, but then they run across a corpse of a little girl -
that in the post mortem is actually found to be stitched together from
body parts of 8 children. Investigating inspector John Marlott (Sean Bean)
of the river police is soon taken to the side by Home Secretary Sir Robert
Peel (Tom Ward), who swears him to absolute secrecy in the case, fearing
social unrest otherwise, as all the victims came from low classes, while
prominent surgeon William Chester (Samuel West) fears that whoever
committed the crime was actually hell-bent on discrediting the only just
emerging surgeon profession, which at the moment is still relying on
graverobbers for anatomy lessons. Marlott feels more than a bit uneasy
with the case, and especially its macabre undercurrents that gives him
nightmares, but he presses on, enlisting the services of a street urchin,
Joey (Kit Connor), to find out things among the street kids on his behalf
- and soon gets news that there are rumours of a child-snatching monster
making the rounds. This of course sounds like nothing but an urban legend,
but in the context of his investigation, Marlott still gives it some
credibility. And then Joey is gone, and the only clue he has to find him
leads Marlott to a brothel run by sadistic Billy Oates (Robbie Gee) for
underaged prostitutes. Marlott figures he might find some clues there, but
when he returns the next day, he finds the place empty, with a poem by
William Blake being the only clue left behind ... Judging from
this first episode, The Frankenstein Chronicles might very
well turn out to be a rather fascinating period horror mystery, with very
detailed and impressive sets and costumes that really give one a feel of
the time it's set in, and all the macabre details, of which there are
plenty, embedded into period. But besides the first class cast, it's
really the writing which keeps one glued to the screen, telling a properly
morbid story in a slow-paced yet arresting way. Very promising indeed!
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