jcmoorcroft I have always wondered what happened to Richard Sharpe (Sean Bean) after Waterloo, did he return to England after his French wife died and he lost his farm. It would have been hard for him to blend in as a civilian in London society being such a famous war hero of the peninsular wars and Waterloo. Did he change his name to John Malott and start a new life? Fans of Richard Sharpe will love this series. I will say no more, enjoy.

lstevens-01050 I would write a review if I can watch this series. Where is it? Their Brits, this is the U.S. I do understand English...No subtitles required.

rupaabdi The Frankenstein Chronicles is one of the few television series which almost succeeds in accomplishing a multi-media creation which has the multiple layers and depths of a novel. It is a crime period drama based in 1827 London. Its story line is as muddy, gritty and dark as the streets of London in those times. It is a beguiling take on Mary Shelley's Gothic classic from the viewpoint of a detective, Marlott (Sean Bean) who, in his attempts to solve the mystery behind bodies of children stitched together which keep washing up on the shore, ends up becoming Frankenstein's monster himself. The creators of these series have managed to come up with sordid and grisly characters of all shapes and sizes, perhaps a reflection of the underbelly of human consciousness. The sets are bleak and gloomy and the visuals require a tough stomach. Underlying the dirt and wide spread poverty , blood and gore, brutalized women and children, and depraved intellects is the art and poetry of William Blake.The creators of this series have very interestingly juxtaposed the monster of William Blake's visions with Frankenstein's monster with all its shades of grey. The true meaning of Blake's visions and imagery slowly dawn on the protagonist, Marlott, as he undergoes a kind of the catharsis, first during his mercury induced dazed illusions and next as Frankenstein's monster hanging between life and death, heaven and hell, questioning the morality behind medical science's attempts at conquering bodily death at the cost of losing the soul.

Alexandr Moskalenko This show has a really great dark atmosphere, Sean Bean gives an acting master-class as usual and Anna Maxwell Martin is superb as Mary Shelley. It has quite a set of XIX cent. mystery disturbing attributes besides Frankenstein, from the painting of William Blake to Stevenson's Body Snatcher, which also comes to mind. I liked the unsettling suspense of the series, it was truly entertaining as a good pseudo- historical thriller - up until that plot twist at the end of the last episode. That ending was of a "WTF?" kind and didn't make any sense to me, somewhat ruined it all. I wish they'd ended the episode 15 minutes earlier. Don't really going to watch a second series. I wonder how to rank in this case, perhaps 9 for the first 5 and 3/4 episodes and 2 for the last part.