Yesterday Benoit dropped by my office to recommend a BBC mini-series called Jekyll. Upon his suggestion I downloaded the six part mini-series and quickly finished up my final essay (yeah boy! That’s right, I’m pretty well done my final essay as of last night.) and Mike and I sat down to check out this modern tale of Jekyll.
Of course, judging from the title of the mini-series, this deals with the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. However, it puts it into a modern context where a scientist – Doctor Jackman – realizes that he is changing into another person when he blacks out for periods of time. He doesn’t really know who he changes into and when we meet him in the first episode, it looks like he has a rapport and rules set up between his alter ego in the form of sticking to some rules, leaving messages on a dictaphone, etc. There’s even scheduled changes so he knows enough to strap himself into a chair so his psychologist friend can talk to Mr. Hyde.
Anyhow, this is a pretty great mini-series so far (after watching 2 episodes). Benoit mentioned how there are many twists and turns (which I love in a story). The transformation of the Jekyll/Hyde character is funny as the Doctor is a mild mannered individual whereas Hyde is this masogonistic hilarious character who likes to get into a lot of trouble. So there are many times that the Doctor wakes up from the Hyde character and finds himself in awkward positions (the funniest being that every time he wakes up Hyde never bothers to leave him a message letting him know where the car is parked.)
Plus there’s the other half of the story of who really is the Doctor Jackman/Hyde character as it seems he is being hunted by the government for some reason.
That’s about all I’m getting into without giving anything major away. Very cool so far. Download it today (unless you get the BBC. Then watch it somehow.)