My dad has been urging me to sit down and watch this series for a while now. I've finally gotten it from Netflix, but I'm a bit disappointed. It really tries to pile on the suspense as in the new Doctor Who series, but I don't really care for the characters at all. They seem too flat, and a lot of the situations are a bit of a stretch. I can't wait to get through this series and move on to something I really want to watch. I feel I'm doing my dad a disservice by not watching it sad .

The basic plot is very similar to Torchwood and so many other shows in that a group of individuals track strange occurrences around England, usually bizarre deaths. The cause of these deaths are [SPIOLER][color=white]rips in time and space that allow prehistoric beasts to run rampant around the countryside eating the local population.[/color=white]