Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Tom Bateman plays Robert Jekyll, a mental inadequate who occasionally crosses an emotional barrier into his alter ego Hyde. While Hyde retains Jekyll's intellectual failure he adds pugilism and high impact sexual advances to his list of inadequacies. Over the course of 10 episodes Jekyll surrounds himself with a large group of well meaning incompetents all of whom make almost no positive impact on the outcome of Jekyll's plight, both elderly relations are noteworthy in themselves as particular liabilities.Thankfully things are carried through to a somewhat odd but presumably agreeable end, guided by the ever ready hand of the Welsh Poet Sniper Man who gets the job done at almost every step when it becomes apparent that no-one else can be trusted to do so.As always Richard E. Grant playing himself is particularly enjoyable.Genuinely looking forward to a 2nd series.

I look forward to this fun and intriguing TV show every single week. I love the actors, the story, the atmosphere, even the costumes. It's very much like the old silver screen horror flicks, but contemporary enough to avoid becoming square. The balance of humor and drama is perfect so that it's never truly sad. I don't watch scary shows or movies because I want a good cry. Many so-called horror shows today are filled with too much tragedy. And though there are violent scenes in Jekyll and Hyde, it's not a gore fest with unnecessary blood bathes. Kudos to ITV for making such an grand production. I hope Jekyll and Hyde continues on for years to come.

There are a lot of good and decent shows out there and there fine but no where near as fascinating to me as Jekyll and Hyde. The un-natural way the characters act and move is so unsubtle and melodramatic. It's over the top and every one will let there emotions be known. Jekyll isn't very good at hiding or suppressing Hyde and everybody notices. The thing about Hyde's character that confused me is why this Indian raised man comes over to Britain and is basically British after that. A few references are maid but still. Lily is the oddest. She just wanders around for a few episodes smiling no matter strange, distressing or traumatic things get. Over all it is a (probably unintentionally) captivating show and because of that it's the only thing I still watch live on television.

Jekyll and Hyde is one of those programs with a premise that captures you for a moment; a 1930s horror show of Lovecraftian bent that focuses on the monster and presents an aversion to gratuitous displays of blood gore, Christmas has come early. Sadly upon opening your gift you find it's been shattered and haphazardly glued back together.I'm not sure who to blame for the resulting Frankenstein that is the show though, I could blame the writers, but I've seen worse script writing; I could blame the director, but he seems new at this and doesn't quite yet grasp what he's doing; I could blame the cast, but some of them have wonderful sense of irony about their persona and seem to understand just how ridiculous the show is. So who do I blame, well nobody, I can just say it's a mess and walk away.Having not read the source material, I'm uncertain as to how accurate certain details were, but as to whether or not a man with supposedly super human strength and a manic bent could limit himself to non-lethally punching people in the chin in every single fight scene is a part of it, well I doubt it. The fights are just plain boring, this wouldn't be a problem but the show seems to idolise them and find an excuse to have a new one every episode.Before I continue on my quest for negativity, I would like to say that I like the costume design, having monsters with simple things like skulls for faces works well and should negate the need for CG, which brings up the question why it was used anyway. One of the monster designs in particular looks particularly shoddy and makes you wonder why it couldn't have been redesigned to something more simple.The directing particularly caught my attention, and, taking my earlier comment into account, you'll have guessed that that isn't a good thing. They seem to enjoy the 'Dutch tilt' (a camera position which rotates the camera so the shot appears on its side) a little too much, to the point where some of the shots are actually nearing the 90 degrees mark. It also completely removes any sense of weight or meaning to such shots as they're used without any kind of relation to what's currently happening on screen. Speaking of happening on screen, the director of photography is having a field day with this, every shot is so full of 'stuff' that the 'stuff' that actually matters in the shot just fades into the white noise of 'stuff.'I'm really disappointed in this series, I wanted it to work, I like a bit of the supernatural and secret societies thing, but the show isn't worth struggling through just to get that fix.