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The Frankenstein Chronicles - Lost and Found
episode 1.6
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, Ed Stoppard, Vanessa Kirby, Ryan Sampson, Charlie Creed-Miles, Eloise Smyth, Elliot Cowan, Kate Dickie, Joel Gillman, Brian Milligan, Morgan C. Jones, Jessie Ross, Stuart Graham, Nick Dunning, Timothy Watson, Seamus Moran, Tim Loane, Pat Mooney, Niall Cusack, Lucy Cray-Miller, Simon Millar
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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As set up in the last
episode, Marlott (Sean Bean), who has solved the Frankenstein
Murders, is the only person who doesn't believe he found the right
culprit, and thus he investigates further, believing that Lord Hervey (Ed
Stoppard), whose "alternative" clinic has been shut under the
Anatomy Act, actually conducts experiments to raise the dead. He's also
convinced that Flora (Eloise Smyth), a child prostitute he saved, is a key
witness, which is why he keeps her locked up in his flat, even if he knows
she and his assistant Nightingale (Richie Campbell) are in love with one
another and has even given his blessings. This leads to Nightingale
eventually breaking up with Marlott. Marlott however manages to find proof
for his theories, but since he's less and less coherent due to his
syphilis and talks about raising the dead too much, nobody believes him -
until he catches Lord Hervey and his assistant red-handed ... but he's
overpowered, to later wake up in his own bed, covered in blood, next to
Flora's cut up, lifeless body - and when Nightingale finds Marlott that
way, nobody can blame him to assume that it was Marlott who murdered the
girl - also given his condition of course. So Marlott is tried, convicted,
and hanged until dead. But eventually he comes back to life in Lord
Hervey's lab, stitched together from parts of different bodies (which at
least cures the syphilis) - and he goes mad with rage ... Now
this is quite a finale to a series that was interesting enough as it was.
And beside very clever writing with many an unexpected twist and turn and
an atmospheric directorial effort, major praise here goes to Sean Bean,
who really outdoes himself in playing Marlott as a man who desparately
tries to cling to what he perceives reality while more and more losing it,
thus playing the anti-hero to perfection. And he's only the leader of a
top notch cast. Basically, this is a finale that's really worth to be
called that, and a worthy coda to one of the more extraordinary series of
its day.
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