This series has a lot going for it: an intriguing premise, a great music score, a magnetic lead pair of performances by James Nesbitt, a solid supporting cast, a simultaneously cheeky and dark sense of humor. But the story could have been told in a 2-hour movie instead of six 55-minute episodes. I thought the earlier episodes were the best, because they focused more on the psychological aspects of two minds, and two personalities, occupying, and fighting for control of, the same body. In the later episodes, the focus switches to a rather clichéd "super-secret-powerful-evil" organization that seems to come from a spy show like "Alias". The final episode does give us some big surprises (the truth about Claire), but also some unforgivable cheats (the "not sharing the damage" thing, completely contradicting the previous five episodes). Steven Moffat has a habit in "Doctor Who" of devising such ingenious and fiendish traps for the Doctor and his companions that they can only get out of them by the script cheating, and this habit followed him in "Jekyll". Plus the series ends on a cliffhanger that will never be resolved.
Review of Jekyll
