This show just needed a second season to find its feet. It had all the elements to be amazing - great premise, characters, actors with chemistry, no shortage of ideas as well as my personal preference to see Jack The Ripper as a possible series arc, a time slip story (that presents as a missing/found person from a displaced time), the fallout from the president actually being assassinated successfully 12 days later, Houdini growing into himself and Doyle's platonic relationship with his 2nd wife. I know they had so many places to go.
I gave it 9 only because there were elements that let it down but it was just the first series - some of the scenes felt a bit long/laboured, the writing had a tendency to over-explain that might make the audience feel dumb - it deserved a chance to learn and grow from this.
Maybe the consensus was it should have fixed this within season but a tv show that gets backing and a chance to grow might have had the time and space to do that. Criminally wasted.
I gave it 9 only because there were elements that let it down but it was just the first series - some of the scenes felt a bit long/laboured, the writing had a tendency to over-explain that might make the audience feel dumb - it deserved a chance to learn and grow from this.
Maybe the consensus was it should have fixed this within season but a tv show that gets backing and a chance to grow might have had the time and space to do that. Criminally wasted.