This week I’ve been watching season 1 of a great Sci-Fi show called “Sanctuary”. This was another show about the hidden creatures, called Abnormals, that live among humans, and the Sanctuary network is a private research group tasked with studying and protecting these abnormals from humans and from themselves if necessary.
The Sanctuary was created by Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping), a brilliant biologist who runs the location featured in the show. She is helped by her gun-hand daughter Ashley (Emilie Ullerup), tech-savvy Henry Foss (Ryan Robbins), and a Bigfoot (Christopher Heyerdahl). In the first episodes, they add in Dr. Will Zimmerman (Robin Dunne), a profiler who tends to see more than most people are comfortable with.
Some things that I really like about “Sanctuary” is that abnormals are just as diverse in temperament and regular humans. Some are benign and just want to live their lives, and some are malevolent and just want to eat your face. They also weave some interesting season-long mystery among a character-driven story.
Technically, the show is interesting because most of the sets and locations seen on the screen don’t really exist. The actors were on green-screen stages and the only things that existed were objects they had to touch like a door or a bookshelf.
It’s a great show that I obviously highly recommend if you can find where to watch it. If I had thought enough in advance, I would have made this my first episode review posts. Maybe I still will.