This is one of those series that came out and slipped by me. When Felix asked if I wanted to review it, you can bet I jumped at the chance. I had tried watching an episode of it on BBC America, but coming in late made it tough. This is ground floor, and this is great. Let's begin with first thoughts.

It's a show very similar in vein to a X-Files or Lost. It's a show produced in the vein of those hour-long dramas, but with a taste of Jurassic Park and British television thrown in for good measure. And I love this show. The first episode drops you almost in the middle of the story. Dinosaurs from the Permian era have busted through what appears to be a wormhole and attack people in a peaceful British village, prehistoric bugs, future predators (or bats), and scores of others. But the show starts off with something of an attack, something of a prologue.

Helen Cutter is the main character in the very first scene and she is attacked by a massive dino-beast, setting the pace for the rest of the series. And even though she's basically shown mostly in pictures and brief clips, the actress playing Helen, Juliet Aubrey, gets credited throughout the entirety of the series, even though she rarely appears in a couple of the eps. But she is the main crux of the series. From the start, she's the reason her husband Nick is involved. She's disappeared, and her disappearance starts to cause anomalies which brings the creatures out into the real world.

But just like Lost, the characters all have their own hidden agendas.

The show is weird. And that's a good thing. The anomalies cause changes in timelines (ala Sliders, which I loved once upon a time) and the fact that Helen might have something to do with a lot of them gives a really strong pull toward the rest of the series. Since, you know, she was the reason the whole thing seems to have started. Beyond that though, there is a few things that don't work so well with this show.

Number one: the special effects can sometimes be a little on the not so great side. Of course, it's a TV series. You can't expect that a TV series will have the same budget for special effects as a big budget blockbuster, and for the most part, the special effects work, but there are instances where they are a little hokey. I sometimes wish that shows would go back to more realistic special effects (like creatures or actually building models, etc), but that's a point in the past.

The second thing that sometimes bothers me is the language barrier. I don't follow all of their slang, I can't always understand what they're saying, but for the most part, I can. It just seems like there is something of a barrier which will turn off most viewers.

If you want a good mystery and some good sci-fi and can deal with a slight barrier and understanding, then you'll probably enjoy this show. If you can't, then this isn't the show for you. I loved it, and will continue to follow it.