martin o'leary I believe in ghosts, demons and all thing in the supernatural, we all know mental houses are prime targets for ghosts so when this series was announced i got excited to see what the show was going to do... it blew.i mean its generic, bland, dull and it doesn't think outside the box for its hunting's. and the series ending annoyed me and others as the questions it had set up weren't solved or explained and the ghosts don't get interesting back stories. if your doing a show on a haunted mental home, try to home in on the mental illness side of things and this show makes a poor attempt at that. mostly as its set in modern times and the story centres round a family business trying to turn the place into a residential home (ya know cause people love living in places were the previous tenant smeared poo on the walls)well they plan covering up what the building was originally for but they don't do it very well. and enter our main character.our main character is your typical guy who sees dead people. he just wants to help them move on to the next life. then he gets a call to go to bedlam and off he flies from confused, upset ghosts to ghosts who try to kill him or someone every episode. good question why was it just one ghost attacked someone every episode and i mean just one? hell the pilot showed that place to be crawling with paranormal activity and just one ghost attacks every so often. people should be coming out in body bags and broken noses, laziest bunch of ghosts i ever saw. adding insult to injury the ghost don't have any back story to them. at all. its just they died and they want to kill someone for reasons never explained. these were mental patents, they might have even been sane and locked in against their will. what was their condition? how did it show in them? how were they treated? why do they want to kill someone as ghosts? WE DON'T KNOW!!! its never explained. coming neatly into my next problem, the mystery.the mystery of the series. this seems to be the 'in thing' right now with doctor who with mysteries like bad wolf. the series has a mystery about missing girls and the main characters sister which somehow relate to the Mental house. the way this should work is with bit by bit giving clues to the mystery hinting at what it might be. Doctor who executed this brilliantly with relaunching the show. Bedlam gives us the mystery in the pilot and then abandons it all together. the missing girls are never mentioned again and the sister no one mentions again. hell suddenly it get booted for a mystery of whats behind a wall. focus on one mystery you stupid writers don't set one up then abandon it for something you might think cool. hell the punishment for this is that we arnt given closure to the series. none of the questions were answered, we're none the wiser for the mysteries it gave it. well worth investing my Monday nights. series 2 just begun and its stupider than the last. most of the original cast are gone, the new girl a complete moron and the new characters seem more like stereotypes than fleshed out characters. hell it carries the mystery from last series but im not holding my breath solving it. as you can tell this was a major let down for me and i suggest leaving this show alone

johnEvegas I REALLY liked this show simply based on the cool subject matter. The setting is GREAT and can lead to many creepy stories to be told. In reality it would be SOOO COOL to have a flat in a place like that, as long as the spirits have not targeted you any particular week.I read reviews about bad acting and maybe it is because I am not a Brit I cannot pick up on it as much, acting is in the little details and I am not sure what they are supposed to sound like so I must miss it. I think the acting is just fine. The actors are also attractive and that is not always commonplace on Brit TV. Maybe the acting bar can be lowered because they are pretty people.I see A LOT of potential for future seasons and even though I read the article about the low ratings I see will have season 2 and I am excited.

ilmolin I think the show is really worth watching. It's short, condensed, well balanced between the self-conclusive episodes and the main plot. Nothing new, slightly flat characters, but a whole lot of entertainment.That said, it's interesting how much derivative the show is. The locations, the iconography of the ghosts, the dynamics between ghost and characters... everything seems to convey a sense of deja-vu. And it's surprising how much this show tries NOT to be British while still remaining it; the reference is more or less the recent American horror (and, indirectly, the Japanese new wave) but many things in the production (good lookin', sexy actors; cinematography; editing, ecc...) just seem to try and be in that trend, maybe to be "easy". On the other side, a kind of British aftertaste still remains and the writing (characters issue aside) is really good. It has it's flaws, but still works better and better each episode, till the great, though a bit "tecnical", final cliffhanger.

munchkins2861 Amazing, really enjoy sit on edge seat. Cant wait till next episode we be devastated when finishes please say series 2 in making! Characters are brilliant and story lines are really good. Love Jed. Will Young really is good in this, better actor than thought he would be. Was very sceptical when see previews but was really pleased i recorded and can watch whenever i want. Fully intend to buy when on DVD. I love creepy dramas without being goorey and this is my type of program, me and husband sit and watch this together without fail. Writer deserve credit for brilliant twists and really working with characters so every week you find out something new about them and history. a+++