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Class (2016)
It's a well acted exciting series and no it's not Dr Who or Buffy
OK - a summary - episode 1 isn't that great but from then one it gets really good. Yes, it's quite dark at times but it's FAR better than how Torchwood started. The cast are very skilled especially the girls in it. There are some important story-lines about family issues that are very well acted. Yes there's a teenage mixed race straight couple and there's a teenage white gay couple. There's a mother who's disabled and issues about parental divorce. Get over it. They're very realistic discussions including romantic feelings (sexuality is regarded as irrelevant) and on religious views.
When I saw the episodes of this series I was puzzled by the first one in it. Peter Capaldi's doctor is in the first episode but he's almost like an afterthought.
But from then on they get better and better. The acting is very good and the stories are exciting/interesting. I'm a Whovian and my wife's a Trekker/action film fan. We both became MAJOR fans of this series after watching episodes 2 and 3.
We both want another series after this one. It can only get better.
Murdoch Mysteries: The Murdoch Trap (2013)
A terrible episode from a great series
The episode I give 1/10 but the series I give 9/10.
The episode is so inaccurate regarding technology at the time (late 1800s). Using a black and white film with audio was almost impossible with the recording devices they had at the time.
Similarly using masks to disguise a person's identity is impossible unless you have a virtually identical bone structure. Therefore a man cannot wear a mask to look like a woman like the episode shows.
Normally the Murdoch Mysteries are fantastic but this episode feels like an American episode divorced from reality (even the pacing of the screenplay and direction).