Torchwood

Season 1 - 90% - Sci-fi full of personal relationships on a very open level? Yes, please. I can quickly forget playful plots in blue phone booths, but Jack Harkness (with his completely different type of games) can captivate just as quickly. And when standing by his side are cynical Owen or beautiful Gwen, it's a team that is not easy to love, but I still can't resist the feeling that I would start working at Torchwood tomorrow. The simple sentence "Doctor Who is for the whole family, but Torchwood is for the adult part of the audience" is in fact very true. Season 2 - 100% - A series that hurts. These are not emotional journeys that move in favor of the series, this is ordinary life against science and everydayness against inevitable fate. Captain Jack sadly gazes into the future, refuses his past, and the series is so strong in emotions and tension that I have to recognize R.T. Davies' merits for a perfectly functioning universe where the series complement each other perfectly and at the same time function flawlessly on their own. Children of Earth - 85% - It takes some time to get used to the new concept of a continuous story, but the more real the threat is and the greater the sacrifices that need to be made, the more harrowing experience Torchwood brings this time. No false leads or forgivable missteps. Children of Earth entail a lot of compromises and moments when you have to give up. And counting the final losses occasionally breaks the heart. A complex experience from start to finish and sometimes (well-intended) viewer hell. Miracle Day - 100% - The culmination of everything and probably also the end of the journey. What could have been a half-hearted restart ends up being more of a period because the American audience refused to participate in Davies' proclaimed and yet uncompromising ride. Nevertheless, Miracle Day is a perfectly constructed mosaic of new characters (for me, Rex played by the tough Mekhi Phifer takes the lead), the consequences of the past, and evidence that intricate storylines can lead somewhere slightly unexpected. The biggest success, however, is surprisingly Gwen, who in the role of an uncompromising leader overshadows even the radiant Jack Harkness. Torchwood is thus forced to leave as a perfect series, separated from the highest ranks in my personal TV series ranking by that tangible depression that occasionally digs into the viewer in unexpected situations and painful twists. But whoever breathes through this fact easier than me has no choice but to fall in love. (29.12.2011)