Reviews

If indeed this is the story of why Hathaway gave up the Clergy to become a policeman, then he never should have considered the Clergy as a "calling". His revelation to Lewis revealed was he told his friend the truth and the friend didn't like it and terminated their friendship. Some friend! And now Hathaway blames himself and thinks that he should have been more tolerant and I would agree, he could/should have been more compassionate but he still said what needed to be said and the friend needed to do some soul searching about his lifestyle choices. Too much perversion and jaded slant on a difficult and controversial subject for my taste.

Two of the most stubborn, opinionated people ever team up for a delightful and charming, if highly predictable, detective series set in the late 1800's London. Nothing deep, no nudity or raw sex or even real violence but a good old fashioned whodunnit that features Miss Scarlet of course, being cuter, faster, smarter and tougher than anyone else even when you know she's "full of it". A great supporting cast is included especially Miss Ivy and Moses who was my personal favorite. Street wise and wily, Moses saves Miss Scarlet's bacon more than once and those two are an even more unlikely pair than her and Detective Inspector. Duke Wellington. Most interaction between the characters is very predictable with the occasional zingers for comedic relief but entertaining nonetheless.

This one will certainly test your memory of history and bring back memories long forgotten. Sam Neil is excellent in the lead role of Reilly: Ace of Spies as is all the supporting cast both ongoing and limited appearances. This was a very trying time in world history with some of the most serious and dangerous world situations in the last 300 years. While watching, glimpses of James Bond and Indiana Jones flash before you and then you remember, it was them who were modeled aster Reilly and not the other way round! Plus, he was an actual person and not a storybook fictional character with his suave, debonair yet manly bearing. It is a bit difficult to keep up sometimes as the writers apparently presume that viewers are more familiar with the events without benefit of any refresher being done. Highly entertaining, very educational from an historical perspective and reminiscent of action movies of a bygone era especially with the 3 part segments in each installment. It's like being back at the Saturday matinees in theaters of yesteryear.

Superior acting, superb plot good special effects and an engaging story-- but Amazon Prime would apparently present more worthless schlock that isn't worth watching!! Really Amazon?! What the heck are you thinking?! Yes, this series moves at an unhurried pace that is much more believable and realistic than all the slam, wham, bam frenzy of most of their own efforts and the story is taking it's time to develop but at least it has a plot and is a story worth watching. I might have just ruined it for some folks however even watching the first season is better than watching most Amazon Prime productions.

While better than some detective series, Redemption falls a bit short of really being "good". The main character, Collette, is either on Prozac or is just wooden much of the time. The story develops a bit too slowly at times and all the prerequisite politically correct races, sexes, lack of sexes, blah, blah, blah are present and is every British/Irish teenager a potty mouthed brat?! The granddaughter, Cara, is a worthless little twit who should have her backside lit on fire. She is a juvenile delinquent. And the grandson has a "boyfriend"? B. S.! We definitely have a totally screwed young generation. The producers really need to rethink their priorities on what makes good entertainment.

This is the sickest, most evil and corrupt cast of characters ever! Totally dysfunctional, psychotic, and with no regard for human life including themselves. So why watch? They have at least done the audience a favor and interjected some ridiculous humor that at least provides some entertainment value if nothing else. The total lack of common sense is unbelievable and stupid decisions abound as well as totally inaccurate depictions of various incidents that are totally ridiculous. Shooting someone in the leg with a 12 gauge riot gun at close range results in a flesh wound rather than a totally mangled leg! Really?! And a 12 gauge Benelli Over and Under that sounds like a rifle are 2 examples. The only somewhat normal character is Denise, the Canadian Indian Deputy (what's with the "First Nations" nonsense. Must be Canadian political correctness) but even she is deeply flawed. If you're into dark humor, the scenery is absolutely gorgeous!!

There's absolutely no redeeming value.in this series. The story is dumb, the acting is wooden and doesn't make any logical sense as to how the characters react to the premise. We watched 2 episodes and gave up. Don't waste your time.

The first 5 episodes are quite enjoyable and keeps one engaged even in the places that are pretty incredible to believe. But, apparently the producers couldn't help veering into a romantic relationship with 2 of the main characters that starts to add an element that Jules Verne certainly would not have gone there. Then, in what was the most highly anticipated part of the voyage, the intrepid adventurers are in the Wild, Wild, West of 1870 America which quickly devolves into a hodgepodge of the worst acting and storyline imaginable. The rendition of the Deputy U. S. Marshal was so painfully portrayed as what was supposed to pass as a former slave set free to now extract vengeance on former Confederate soldiers who had gone West to get away from the aftermath of Reconstruction. The depictions of the Confederates as racist, bigoted tyrants was so badly misplayed by actors with horrible Southern accents much less attitudes. And the Black former slave née Deputy Marshal supposedly had escaped to Oklahoma to live amongst my Cherokee ancestors who actually were part of and fought for the Confederacy. There was obviously no historians consulted to do any fact checking at all and if the Intent was to keep portraying fantasy, then the episode certainly succeeded because that's all it was; pure fantasy. We will certainly not be watching any more episodes.