This show has the production values to be an excellent show, has a good cast, good acting and good action, but the execution on the final product leaves a lot to be desired. It starts off with a scene from hundreds of years ago, and apparently there is some sort of curse on the new land (America?) that these men from a viking ship discover, because the second one of them passes a certain line on the beach, he is somehow magically inundated by arrows. If they are trying to say that the guy was shot by Native Americans with 500 arrows and no misses, I am not buying. I have serious doubts that just what the heck went on there will ever be explained, which is just the beginning of why this is bad. Then to appease what these men perceive as Gods that need sacrifices, they commit increasingly brutal acts on each other, climaxing in a fight scene in which the producers decided to throw 10-20 times more blood into the air than would have really been present in a realistically portrayed fight scene, and I can only guess that they did this to appeal to the lowest common denominator- viewers looking for violence porn. I am also not buying. I am not going to be like the rest that brush the garbage under the carpet just to get to the nugget of what might be an excellent story. I for one will not be watching further episodes. Without the nonsense added for shock value this could have been a 9.
Review of The Bone Orchard
