With Sean Bean revitalised in his scruffy, anti-hero role this year, the characters are largely what makes Frankenstein Chronicles such a gripping drama. There’s a hint of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein book here but Chronicles largely marches to the beat of its own drum, especially so in this second season. A steady stream of mutilated bodies leads the police closer to tracking the true culprit too and there’s an interesting undertone of the church VS the state that helps give the narrative a necessary dose of tension with Marlott firmly rooted in the middle as the wild card. With the culprit already revealed, season 2 revolves around a revenge-fuelled mission for Marlott to track down and get revenge on Lord Daniel Hervey ( Ed Stoppard). With a mentally unstable John Marlott (Sean Bean) imprisoned, this delirium-induced episode cleverly recaps the events that occurred at the end of last season whilst establishing the main plot line this year. The story begins with a reflective episode touching on the events at the end of season 1. Although it struggles to recapture the uneasiness and mystery that made the first season so endearing, the vengeance-fuelled storyline is a good change of pace and an interesting new direction for the show. Frankenstein Chronicles is a solid, well paced thriller and with an inspired Sean Bean driving the show forward to its intriguing finale, is well worth watching if you enjoyed the first season. Reluctantly, Carson will join forces with Deucalion against a far greater, terrifying threat: an entire race of killers who are much more - and less - than human …ĭeucalion seeks one final confrontation with the evil genius who created him, Dr Frankenstein.ĭean Koontz, the master storyteller, creates a bold new legend.Following the cliffhanger ending last year, Frankenstein Chronicles returns for a second season set 3 years after the first 6 episodes.
The Frankenstein story updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz.Ĭreated centuries ago by a madman, possessed of seemingly supernatural powers and a dogged drive for justice, the mysterious Deucalion arrives in New Orleans as the next generation of Dr Frankenstein's monsters are about to be unleashed by their deranged maker, now known as Victor Helios.ĭeucalion's path will cross with that of tough police detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison, who are on the trail of a vicious serial killer stalking the city, a killer who selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself.
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