It's urban fantasy more than sci-fi, with some comic-book flavor to it. The world they live in is the near future, but with some differences that make it look almost post-apocalyptic, but not quite. Kind of a gotham-ish city for a setting, but in other ways just a regular city.
If you're interested in character, then I recommend it. I've seen the full half-season of 13 eps, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. The characters ended up being the most likable part, and after four or five episodes when we really get to know the main ones better, I realized "You know, I am really enjoying this show." It has some wildly entertaining side characters that include historic inventor Nicola Tesla...as a vampire. A bitchy opportunistic vampire, which was amusing as fuck.
The show tries for some scares, but usually it pulls back into safe territory. Still, the tension is reliable as either dark or whimsical, and the "mission" of the main characters is purely egalitarian in nature, which makes for a nice change from paranoid, pretentious bore-fests like Fringe.
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Date: 2009-03-02 11:27 am (UTC)If you're interested in character, then I recommend it. I've seen the full half-season of 13 eps, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. The characters ended up being the most likable part, and after four or five episodes when we really get to know the main ones better, I realized "You know, I am really enjoying this show." It has some wildly entertaining side characters that include historic inventor Nicola Tesla...as a vampire. A bitchy opportunistic vampire, which was amusing as fuck.
The show tries for some scares, but usually it pulls back into safe territory. Still, the tension is reliable as either dark or whimsical, and the "mission" of the main characters is purely egalitarian in nature, which makes for a nice change from paranoid, pretentious bore-fests like Fringe.