I'm a big fan of BBC drama, which gave us wonderful productions such as Line of Beauty, Funland, Life on Mars and the list can go on for ever and it may also seem a little harsh to pass judgment, after having only watched one episode, but I got the feeling that this installment was as good as this drama is ever going to get. I suppose that when someone come up with the idea of making a super cool, post-modern, up-to-date remake of RL Stevenson nineteen century's 'blockbuster' novel, packed with all the latest high-tech gadgets, it might have seemed a wonderful idea at the time. However the way James Nasbitt's (normally a rather excellent actor)Dr. Jekyll experiences and tries to cope with his split personality owns more, it seems to me to some obscure medical text on Multiple Personality Disorder, rather that to Stevenson's wonderful writing. Not even an actor of the calibre of Nesbitt can do anything to improve on a script which is completely far-fetched and contrived and some quarter of an hour into the story, you just don't care what fate is going to befall the wretched doctor: happy ending, tragic ending or anything in between. Only powerful scene in the first episode was the drunken, pub closing time confrontation between the good doctor and a yob and his girlfriend in an alleyway, this scene was quite exilerating and rang true to life, but all the rest...
