BitterBrownSugar The story at the beginning like a simmer fire to narrate in detail. Audiences should has patient to taste it. Every detail is matter and hinted the clues for the ending. Especially the ending twist is surprising. The writer,Ashley Pharoah, is brilliant. Every scene has been arranged like painting on canvas, beautiful and natural. Not to mention each actor acting in place. Colin Morgan as Nathan Appleby is a pioneer psychologist who is carrying the pain inside deeply by losing his son. It's a complicated character for him as a big challenge. But Again, he accomplished a perfect job which was so engaged the character and dealing well with this tangle role. Charlotte played his wife also express the delicate feeling to support his husband. Overall the whole crews are connected and played well with sewing a splendid landscape.

timgrn Sadly like so much that the BBC and British producers in general make now it doesn't know what it is supposed to be, the result being that it isn't anything at all. Perhaps that it's just that British producers simply don't have the budget but I am sure that some of the truly great British TV of the last forty years or so were produced on a shoestring. Back to the series in question. The reliance on what has gone before is simply not good enough today. One can hear poorly-disguised Hardyesque dialogue oozing out in almost every scene and it devalues the writer's credibility and seriously undermines the actors' performances. Possibly the worst offence so far was poor Charlotte Spencer's line to the assembled farm workers about her commitment to her new role as farm manager. I can't really be bothered to look back at what the words were exactly but they so cringingly close to Hardy's Bathsheba Everdine's 'I shall be up before you're awake...' etc, etc, speech that I felt sorry for the actress delivering the lines. The writer really should have tried harder. The flashes of 21st century images are not to my taste so can't really objectively comment but for the record it just seems to be another layer of 'mystery' that is not required if you get the others right. the costume department has gone for it but unfortunately it just seems so unlikely that the new mistress would be (badly, I might add) tossing hay in such an new, immaculate and complete late 1800's outfit. Costumes also do not really help out the very, very familiar faces of the workers who look like they were assembled on set and asked to raid the dressing up box in five minutes before shooting started. The thing is, if the substance is not there, accuracy in other departments can carry it along if you are lucky. at the moment the Americans are doing all the right things (in a very general sense) while us Brits are going backwards fast. Come on, sort it out guys and gals !!!

vivnista I found the show incredibly disjointed. I was more than happy with the time periods which definitely held my interest but the story lines just did not fit together well. It was all a bit thin for my liking. I did find the acting brilliant and the soundtrack was appropriately eerie but it just wasn't enough. I didn't understand the ending at all, were they on about the first wife and if so how come nobody else had mentioned it?!!! The twist was good but again didn't make sense as in the present day there would be mention of this strange machine found back in the 1800s. All in all if you have nothing better to do then give it a go with low expectation and then you may enjoy it.

zahrazainy The series is beyond words, truly another one of BBC's fine works. The plot is something that I have never encountered before, with its elegant and swift twists. The characters are absolutely lovely, and watching the character development flow is simply beautiful. The series take on paranormal is genius. It is nothing like being afraid of the beast under the bed, or the creature that lingers within the shadows. It is almost like a dreadful feeling of a living being stalking behind you, or eyes that follow you in a painting; and that's what managed to capture me in joining Naethan's journey. The concept of time between the living and the dead is very thoughtful. It allows the viewers to question themselves, "is time real?" and that's the beautiful thing about this show. It gives everyone something to ponder at night, staring into the ceiling with questions that have no right answer. Of course, I must mention the unique dark misgivings that invade the village. It is very interesting to watch how everyone copes with the hectic difficulty, especially Naethan. His struggle with trying to separate the blended lines can be frustrating for a viewer, but that's the whole point I think. You know a show is good when you have a love-hate relationship with it, and all you wanna do is smack the protagonist in the head, then point them in the right direction. All I can say is that it has potential, and hopefully the writers don't waste it.