supertecnoboff-17594 Love Atlantis because it allows me to escape the boring mundane world I live in and join the characters on he adventure of a lifetime. I wish I could be there with them :)+ Beautiful imaginary/locations. + Great acting. + Captivating storyline. + Great characters. + Light hearted with bursts of comedy.Can't think of any negatives, apart from the fact that the BBC pulled the plug on this show after just 2 seasons.... come on....Please BBC bring back Atlantis! I really miss this show :(

chels-498 I have just recently finished watching Atlantis and really enjoyed it. While Season 1 wasn't amazing, Season 2 was absolutely incredible!I recently became aware of the show and started watching it because I'm a big fan of fantasy shows (which there are not nearly enough of on TV), and because I was interested to see what they would do with the legend of Atlantis after doing pretty well with Merlin. Season 1, as mentioned in other reviews, is a little slow, cheesy/cringe worthy at times, and the writing/acting could be improved in parts. It was still enjoyable to watch to escape reality for a bit, and I felt it had a lot of potential - but it became a show I watched more when I wanted that TV escape for 40min without being addicted and feeling like I needed to watch more. Knowing it had been canceled before starting to watch it, at that stage, I though I understood why (particularly when compared to season 1 of Merlin - its predecessor). But Season 2 completely changed that! I think I watched season two in 3 days, I got so hooked on the story line and characters. At the end of season 1, I could see the start of where the show could go, and the show's directors/producers/writers did a fantastic job at building on it. Atlantis became an actual fantasy drama in season 2 - the plot was substantially better, as was the acting and writing, the characters all gained a lot more depth, and the themes the show explored were much more interesting. Overall it became very addicting, and I'm devastated that it was canceled, before the show could continue to grow in season 3 (or even that they couldn't film just a few more episodes to tie up some of the story lines they had done such a fantastic job at building!)For anyone considering watching this, if you are struggling with the first season, don't give up on it! If needed, skip to the last two episodes of season 1 and start from there. If you are looking for a solid and addicting fantasy drama, season 2 of Atlantis is well and truly worth watching!

bbshockwave As Galvatron put it so well in the 1986 Transformers movie - this show is bad comedy. I check out every fantasy show as a matter of principle, given how this genre is kind of dying out. Unfortunately, Atlantis choose to emulate one of the worst types of fantasy shows - namely, Xena and Hercules: The Legendary Journey. Even worse, those shows had the excuse for their laughable CGI, bad set designs and costumes and mediocre acting talent because they were low budget shows in 2000 or so - this show is from 2015 and has a bigger budget. But seeing Jason try to "act" will make you wish to see Kevin Sorbo again. The show also butchers mythological accuracy, though this is expected in these types of series. Worse offender is the story, that just goes nowhere. Jason comes from present day to "Atlantis" (Crete, really - with king Minos and Minotaur and bull-jumping) - but does this ever play any part in the plot? Nope, after the first episode he fits in perfectly fine with the ancient Greeks. He also never remarks about mythical names and locations that any kid today would know about - if you went back in time and met someone named Medusa, would you NOT warn them about certain curses? Adding to Jason's ridiculous macho superhero skills and zero acting talent are his "comedic" sidekicks, nerdy whiner Pythagoras and bald, complaining fat ex-wrestler Hercules, none of whom act anything like you would expect from the names. The only good actor in the lot is poor Alexander Siddig of DS9, Primeval and Game of Thrones fame, playing King Minos, but even he does not put much effort into his acting. The main villain, Queen Pasiphe, as well as the ever-cryptic Oracle, are such bad actresses that you will cringe whenever they are on screen.The effects are horribly green-screened and any mythical creatures like a harpy, Campe or the Minotaur always shown in darkness and with severe motion blur, so that you won't notice how they are not really there at all. I gave up on this at the end of Season 1 for two simple reasons - when Jason refuses to kill the evil queen who has been consistently evil and wanted to kill him for the whole series, and instead turns on and kills Circe, her sister, who tasked Jason with killing the Queen (our hero, everyone!), she summons some skeletons (via dragon tooth as per the myth) before dying. I am not kidding, the Harryhousen skeleton fight from Jason and the Argonauts, that is close to 60 years old, looked more real and better choreographed than this bad CGI fest. No shows has a budget excuse to make things look this terrible, not just compared to the amazing skeleton fights in Game of Thrones, but to an 1963 movie. I am glad this got cancelled - Hercules the Legendary Journey is something that does not need to have a worse successor at this day and age.

Shay Kitoff You cannot judge this show by saying Hercules is a drunk and whatnot. It is a purely fictional and original depiction of ancient Greece with it's many quirks. Don't post negative reviews before you understand the meaning of the show. It is a parody of various mythological stories and characters, woven into an original storyline. The acting is excellent. Remember, they are not competing for Oscars, they're simply trying to portray ancient legends as common men. This requires a more natural and non-operatic acting style which the actors seem to be well versed in. The landscape imagery and set designs are phenomenal and extremely realistic. This is part of the reason most people take the show as a serious one and it's depictions as supposed to be true, which they immediately disagree with. I conclude by that you need to take the show on a lighter note and watch more than the first episode to really 'feel' it. You feel me dawg?