The one and only season of "Class" is brilliant, coherent, emotional, and superbly constructed. It puts a lot of balls in the air and juggles them with aplomb. There are no places in the entire season where you feel like they've forgotten about any of the characters or the world they're creating.
The diverse cast is all wonderful and believable, and the adventures they go through always serve character: whether it's pacifist Tadeusz struggling to keep his boyfriend Charlie on a moral course, or Tanya's insecurity about her age, or Quill's dual pull between caretaking and revenge, the stories always reveal more and more about them.
The show looks great, especially episodes like the one where the town is covered in killer vines, and the acting is all top-notch. Yes, it's fairly bloody and doesn't totally settle into its rhythm until the second episode, but this show is anything but second-rate Who. It is a model of action/adventure/SF and it's a tragedy that it never got its second season.
The diverse cast is all wonderful and believable, and the adventures they go through always serve character: whether it's pacifist Tadeusz struggling to keep his boyfriend Charlie on a moral course, or Tanya's insecurity about her age, or Quill's dual pull between caretaking and revenge, the stories always reveal more and more about them.
The show looks great, especially episodes like the one where the town is covered in killer vines, and the acting is all top-notch. Yes, it's fairly bloody and doesn't totally settle into its rhythm until the second episode, but this show is anything but second-rate Who. It is a model of action/adventure/SF and it's a tragedy that it never got its second season.