Easy watching. Good for a light supernatural fix

Bruce Boxleitner and Kate Jackson in Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)

Robin Dunne, Amanda Tapping, and Emilie Ullerup in Sanctuary (2008)

Stephen Rea, Peter Firth, Anton Lesser, Bethany Muir, and Wilson Mbomio in Dickensian (2015)

Russell Tovey, Lenora Crichlow, and Aidan Turner in Being Human (2008)

Riley Smith, Leah Lewis, Tunji Kasim, Alex Saxon, Maddison Jaizani, and Kennedy McMann in Nancy Drew (2019)

Ashley Madekwe, Hugo Speer, Charlotte Salt, Will Young, and Theo James in Bedlam (2011)

Hugo Speer

Charlotte Salt

Jack Roth

David Allison

Neil Jones

Chris Parker

Drama and supernatural chills in this series centered around a haunted insane asylum-turned-apartment building.

Bedlam

Fun premise, underwhelming delivery

First of all, I think it&apos;s good to know going in that season 1 and season 2 are different beasts. The first season follows Jed, a man who sees ghosts and returns to his family&apos;s asylum-turned-apartment building after being summoned by an unknown entity. While there he tries to understand his deeper connection to the place. Season 2 follows Ellie, a paramedic who has started seeing ghosts and goes to the asylum/apartments to seek out Jed (her access to medical files means she knows that he also saw ghosts).

The premise itself is good, and I was interested in both the &quot;episode of the week&quot; parts (ie always figuring out which former mental patient was haunting someone and why), and the long-form story (about Jed and Ellie and their connection to the asylum). But both aspects of the series let me down quite a bit. There are some creepy images here and there, but the resolutions are often not very satisfying. We are repeatedly shown mental patients who haunt the asylum because they were horribly abused, and usually their stories end with really superficial solutions, like returning a possession to a grave.

As other reviews have mentioned, there are several mysteries that are simply never solved or just dropped from the narrative and it&apos;s quite frustrating. Characters we care about--MAIN CHARACTERS--leave or die off-screen, as if the actors just simply didn&apos;t come back to work and another character explains what happened to them or where they are.

I don&apos;t mind shows that aren&apos;t awesome, but this one doesn&apos;t even have an episode that I could name as a stand-out or even totally good episode. On the whole they tend to range from boring to middling. On the plus side, there are only 12 episodes in the entire show, and I liked Theo James and Lacey Turner enough as the leads that I stayed relatively engaged. Hugo Speer (as the probably evil uncle Warren) is good, but given almost nothing to do except pop up now and then to be menacing.

I can&apos;t really recommend this one, nor can I say it should be avoided. It&apos;s just . . . eh. If you like ghosty/paranormal stuff, this is good enough for a Friday night binge watch.

Bedlam: Season 1

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First of all, I think it's good to know going in that season 1 and season 2 are different beasts. The first season follows Jed, a man who sees ghosts and returns to his family's asylum-turned-apartment building after being summoned by an unknown entity. While there he tries to understand his deeper connection to the place. Season 2 follows Ellie, a paramedic who has started seeing ghosts and goes to the asylum/apartments to seek out Jed (her access to medical files means she knows that he also saw ghosts).

The premise itself is good, and I was interested in both the "episode of the week" parts (ie always figuring out which former mental patient was haunting someone and why), and the long-form story (about Jed and Ellie and their connection to the asylum). But both aspects of the series let me down quite a bit. There are some creepy images here and there, but the resolutions are often not very satisfying. We are repeatedly shown mental patients who haunt the asylum because they were horribly abused, and usually their stories end with really superficial solutions, like returning a possession to a grave.

As other reviews have mentioned, there are several mysteries that are simply never solved or just dropped from the narrative and it's quite frustrating. Characters we care about--MAIN CHARACTERS--leave or die off-screen, as if the actors just simply didn't come back to work and another character explains what happened to them or where they are.

I don't mind shows that aren't awesome, but this one doesn't even have an episode that I could name as a stand-out or even totally good episode. On the whole they tend to range from boring to middling. On the plus side, there are only 12 episodes in the entire show, and I liked Theo James and Lacey Turner enough as the leads that I stayed relatively engaged. Hugo Speer (as the probably evil uncle Warren) is good, but given almost nothing to do except pop up now and then to be menacing.

I can't really recommend this one, nor can I say it should be avoided. It's just . . . eh. If you like ghosty/paranormal stuff, this is good enough for a Friday night binge watch.

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