The show is well-acted and well-crafted on its own merits it deserves to be praised.
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As he navigates a teeming London fraught with the politics of the age-especially questions of science, religion, class, sexuality, and morality-history and detective series buffs will be hooked. But Marlott’s quest to track down the killer, as well as find a missing child while his own tragic past is revealed in mercury-induced flashbacks, is compelling. The body turns out to be a composite comprised of eight different children stitched together, Frankenstein-style, and Marlott is charged with solving the horrific crime.Ĭhronicles is not for the faint of heart: there are moments when it goes for horror movie-style jumpscares, and its content is on the whole unsettling. The premise at first is deceptively simple: John Marlott (Bean), a rough but honest Inspector in a time before a centrally organized police force, discovers a mysterious body washed up on a riverbank. I watched the first two seasons in the space of a few days. Shown in Britain starting in 2015 and now streaming into millions of households as an acquired Netflix Original, The Frankenstein Chronicles soon began trending and was recommended to me for viewing. What do I hate? That the show’s star, Sean Bean, has a long and allegedly abusive history with women.īut first, the show, which is bigger than Bean alone: In late February, Netflix began airing the cult British drama The Frankenstein Chronicles, a dark supernatural detective show set in 1827 that riffs on classic literature. The news that Bean has long been included in round-ups of actors’ alleged assault by reporters who wonder why he escaped any repercussions for his alleged abuse may not be widely known to most reviewers and audiences-I believe that’s why discussion of this has been absent from Frankenstein Chronicles discourse. We can divorce The Frankenstein Chronicles from Bean, but we can’t divorce Bean’s alleged actions from the fact that he continues to be a highly lauded and powerful actor starring in vehicles like The Frankenstein Chronicles. I’m a fan of The Frankenstein Chronicles myself.īut LaSala’s take reminded me that I continue to see zero mention of Sean Bean’s alleged past abusive behavior mentioned in the same breath with his work, and that we are now living in an era where this is unacceptable. This is not intended at all to call out LaSala I agree with his review.
Over on Tor.com, Jeff LaSala wrote a smart and enthusiastic review of The Frankenstein Chronicles, calling it “what grimdark should be,” and highlighting the best aspects of the show. We need to talk about Sean Bean’s alleged history with women, even if I don’t want to give him the time of day. But today a new glowing review of the show appeared, and it made me want to shake the mothballs from this and let it see the light. I wrote this piece last month and didn’t publish it, deciding that I felt so conflicted about Sean Bean’s role in The Frankenstein Chronicles that I did not wish to draw more attention to the series.
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