Don't expect historical facts,at all. Set during the Revolutionary war we are expected to believe the royal navy is being blockaded by Americans with Irish support in the Irish sea, that during the rape of china with opium and a roaring tea trade the head of the east India company (wrong man of course but Mr.Strange sounds SO cool)spends his spare time slave trading.....as an individual. And this is especially lucrative as he scuttles the ship wasting the slave cargo he was willing to risk all for?????
Also, we live in an era in London where lords,ladies and commoners freely mix and the latter rule London...lol. Every tough guy has more tattoos than David Beckham and street urchins wear Gothic eye makeup. the whores and ladies are dressed as Victorians, ball shot is used but blades aren't...so reload racing is how people fight,a bayonet would be far too easy. Except for our hero....he tears out throats with his teeth because he went to Africa....or was it Canada? I guess who cares, right? The main point is he found voodoo in Africanada and eats hearts. he can hear the dead, which is handy if bubbling water and whispering goths are your thing. Our hero comes from money...but talks and dresses like an industrial revolution coal miner from the north...when hes not speaking Canadiafrican voodoo,he might invest in rail t' mine next season!. His father was super wealthy and so is he, although he spent his youth as a cabin boy on slave ships....I'm so lost historically...but if you just forget ALL history and which period you're in and the entire class structure of Britain, its cool. Oh and in the 1700's you could csi your dads corpse...cool huh? and transsexuals, queers and Maoris they call Indians were widely accepted in dockside brothels, by the ever present... hooker with a heart o gold. There is a Victorian chemist and cocaine is widely used by him and his friends from the band 'Flock of Seagulls' although it wasn't invented 'til well after the war that is happening. Perhaps he brought it back in the time machine he uses to bring Victorian chemistry. If you actually sat down and carefully looked over the whole thing it has pretty much no basis in fact...perhaps season 2 will let us in on their whole lack of a time-line...perhaps its Supposed to be Sci Fi. Fun though. 7/10 for shear front. And for being watchable even though its clearly absurd.
Also, we live in an era in London where lords,ladies and commoners freely mix and the latter rule London...lol. Every tough guy has more tattoos than David Beckham and street urchins wear Gothic eye makeup. the whores and ladies are dressed as Victorians, ball shot is used but blades aren't...so reload racing is how people fight,a bayonet would be far too easy. Except for our hero....he tears out throats with his teeth because he went to Africa....or was it Canada? I guess who cares, right? The main point is he found voodoo in Africanada and eats hearts. he can hear the dead, which is handy if bubbling water and whispering goths are your thing. Our hero comes from money...but talks and dresses like an industrial revolution coal miner from the north...when hes not speaking Canadiafrican voodoo,he might invest in rail t' mine next season!. His father was super wealthy and so is he, although he spent his youth as a cabin boy on slave ships....I'm so lost historically...but if you just forget ALL history and which period you're in and the entire class structure of Britain, its cool. Oh and in the 1700's you could csi your dads corpse...cool huh? and transsexuals, queers and Maoris they call Indians were widely accepted in dockside brothels, by the ever present... hooker with a heart o gold. There is a Victorian chemist and cocaine is widely used by him and his friends from the band 'Flock of Seagulls' although it wasn't invented 'til well after the war that is happening. Perhaps he brought it back in the time machine he uses to bring Victorian chemistry. If you actually sat down and carefully looked over the whole thing it has pretty much no basis in fact...perhaps season 2 will let us in on their whole lack of a time-line...perhaps its Supposed to be Sci Fi. Fun though. 7/10 for shear front. And for being watchable even though its clearly absurd.