Fades episode one - review type thing

Just watched Fades (BBC3 new supernatural type thingy) and it was pretty good. Tone wise it felt a bit like a cross between some of the early episodes of Supernatural (I kept thinking the one with the old haunted hospital/asylum) and Being Human.

It looks like being one continuous story over the six episodes of the series, rather than each episode being a self contained story. It looks like it should be able to carry a storyline over the six episodes as episode one left pretty much only questions about what is going on.

The title sequence is good, if rather spooky in places. The special effects are in generally good. It's not particularly specially effect heavy, a lot of it probably is more make up and lighting, but there's no rubber masked monsters or dodgy CGI creatures here.



( Review which has a lot of spoilers under cut )

So I'm looking forward to next weeks episode, as I really don't know where they are going with this one, but it looks like being an interesting ride.

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