Nonureva
Really Surprised!
SeeQuant
Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
Sanjeev Waters
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
bellapeligrosa
I'm surprised this got such a bad rating. It's the kind of quirky TV series the Brits are so good at. The subject matter is a little off- putting to the first time viewer (angel lawyers, really?!) but shouldn't be as this is a good old-fashioned human drama and the angelic theme is just a good guy/bad guy spin. In fact if you are tuning in expecting to see a 'Supernatural'-esque show you are more likely to be disappointed. It could have just have easily been a courtroom drama and in that respect it delivers. The angelic element adds a little mystery, and the city of York is the kind of backdrop where you can believe mortals and eternals could mix. Whilst it might not be the best-written series on TV, it's also not worth a 5.6 rating. Doesn't look like it will return for a series 2 but if you can catch series 1 somewhere - on DVD or demand - well worth a watch.
graham coia
OK, so it's not the best thing I've ever seen but it has real charm and wit. The leads are excellent and the stories and dialogue have just enough quirkiness to lift it out of run-of-the-mill.I am not normally a fan of UK shows being remade but I do feel that this would work well redone for an American audience - maybe we Brits just don't do angels too well - too cynical - and Americans would buy into the premise a bit more.I'd love to see it get a 2nd series, so long as it takes the characters somewhere and doesn't simply degenerate into the 'case-of-the-week' that just happens to contain angels!
seanferguson13
As a lawyer, I tried to tell myself it was the oversimplified clichéd plots that are repeatedly stuffed into the "excitement box" of a courtroom until they are misshapen. Endlessly showing good versus evil in a system where sadly black and white rarely exist and there are a billion shades of gray. Couple this with the incorrect procedures and law. But no that wasn't it.Was it my atheism? Did I object to the winged angels flying down and doing battle with terribly frightful evil on a weekly basis as a further reinforcement of outdated and unscientific beliefs among young audiences? No, it wasn't that either.The setting then? Bland, mechanical story lines? Truly awful acting? (To be fair there are some good performances). No.What got me, was that someone was trying to sell this to audiences as entertainment. A prime time slot no less. I would still have grimaced if it was the first attempt at a foray into programme creation by a Year 11 media student.This programme is as bad as it gets. I may even go as far as to say it represents the final nail in the cultural and creative decline of our society.It's sad that a TV show can make a 26 year old think this way, but it did. I may throw my TV away now.
charleshunt257
Episode 1 was appalling: clumsy dialogue; unbelievable plot; bad acting - even from Sam West; not a sign of a policeman anywhere, even when somebody is shooting on the crowd from the top of the Mansion House (where the Lord Mayor lives); apparent murderer defended by two angels and prosecuted by a devil, and let out of the court unsupervised when his daughter starts shooting out the courtroom windows with the rifle that should have been Exhibit A in the trial... etc etc The cardboard characters that the mostly highly competent actors were meant to represent were totally unengaging and unbelievable. Even the brawls outside (some of York's posher) pubs were amateurish. Doesn't augur well for the rest of the series.Interesting to learn that God (Mr Mountjoy) has wings, though.
