When I recommend my son give this a watch (but not the grand kids), he quipped as it was Canadian was everyone polite. Hardly, there is enough treachery, violence, and sex—not graphic but clearly sex going on—that it could pass for a poor man's Game of Thrones. Hero (Tom York) seems to do everyone including his step-mom. Hello Oedipus. The production values and special effects are good and I suspect this isn't an inexpensive series to produce. The writing plays fast and loose with Greek Mythology and the writers seem at times a little careless within their own creation. The story revolves around three main characters and their quest to unravel an enigma. The three protagonists are Hero—I don't name them—,the Oracle of Gaia, and Daedalus. Daedalus is played by a favorite of mine, Matt Frewer (Max Headroom forever) and he is the only actor I recognize. The antagonists are Medea (Sonita Henry), Lylos (Wayne Burns), and Ariadne (Sophia Lauchlin Hirt) and are all quite good if totally unknown to me. I have to admit the last six episodes get a tad existential. And the final episode is more than a nod toward Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. I like what I have seen this season and hope it gets picked up for a second especially as the last episode is a cliff-hanger, literally.
When I mentioned the writing is careless I was referencing an incident concerning a plot contrivance called the ring of the magi. Although no one really knows what its power is, Daedalus says the guardians of the ring (the Magi) want it to destroy the gods because they represent the one true god. However, when one of the guardians shows up trying to find out where Hero went after finding the ring; she is quite content to slice through the throat of an old lady who was a tad slow in answering her question and whispering into the dead ear that she (the old lady) will rest with the gods. Now I thought the guardians were trying to replaces the gods (Greek pantheon) with god (their singleton), so the plural reference threw me.
When I mentioned the writing is careless I was referencing an incident concerning a plot contrivance called the ring of the magi. Although no one really knows what its power is, Daedalus says the guardians of the ring (the Magi) want it to destroy the gods because they represent the one true god. However, when one of the guardians shows up trying to find out where Hero went after finding the ring; she is quite content to slice through the throat of an old lady who was a tad slow in answering her question and whispering into the dead ear that she (the old lady) will rest with the gods. Now I thought the guardians were trying to replaces the gods (Greek pantheon) with god (their singleton), so the plural reference threw me.