ybredad Damien ReviewI just watched this series. Lots of potential. Here are a few likes and dislikes:Characters. Bradley James in the title role is believable as Damien. He manages to convince us that on some level (his conscious) he is good, even though we know (and he suspects) he's the antichrist. By the time the scence at the wake rolls around you know his subconscious has other ideas as James delivers a subtle performance displaying the charisma and strength he'll use to become the political powerhouse prophesied. (That slight piece of dialogue reminded me of Tarantino). Good job with the accent, James.Ann Rutlegde played by Barbara Hershey is simple in her complexity. Like Damien, you can't hate the woman. Her fierceness as protector/believer; her maternal warmth met with the tough love for a child she hopes will become all he can be. This makes you understand and respect her decisions. Yet, with every scene you feel like you haven't scratched the surface of the character. It would have been a joy to watch her peel away the layers. Scott Wilson (Lyons) does his job as an understated baddie, while (Simone) Megalyn E.K. is given way too much as one of the biggest catalysts on Damien's journey. This character does not deserve that role. She feels forced upon the audience.The first episode felt in a hurry, but began to settle in around the 3rd episode. Setting. Set in NY? Doesn't feel like it. If you're mentioning NY as much as you did in the first two episodes then make it so. NY is a character all it's own and that did not come through on this set. Work with the location scouts from "Strain." The cinematographer, though, did their best to compensate and get us in the mood for the apocalypse.I have not written a review in a very, very, very long time. Nor have I written a review on something that no longers airs. It is my wish that this series be resurrected a la "Arrested Development." Cheers!

Jitendra Kotai Damien relies on the concept of Good VS Evil. The Protagonist we all know is the son of the Antichrist. However in human form he is shielded and protected and given good values. He has turned human but the Antichrist is trying to force him to kill. Death Surrounds him. People die wherever he goes. A Brilliantly executed show. Brilliant acting performances by Barbara Hershey , Bradley James, Omid Abtahi and David Meunier . I still cannot figure out why this show went off air,

escctrlshift The original Omen series was not greatly loved by critics, nor do horror movies generally -- unless they happen to be Ridley Scott's _Alien_, among others -- ever fare too well with mainstream critical voices. As genres go, film horror has a long history of not taking itself too seriously. For one it's hard to take blood and guts too seriously when their are in superabundance. The exploding head, now a standard trope of the literary horror palette, was kind of funny from the beginning. And horror IS about horrible things. Taking them too seriously would be, well, just horrible. So the horror genre tends toward cheekiness. Horror film freaks are not all doom and gloom. I suppose most of us like to hold babies, tell silly jokes to our parents and do other sentimental humanish things. Religious fundamentalists, on the other hand, have a more severe view of the world, and do not ma6ke the best stand-up comics. They might well love the Damien series, which has no sense of humor at all, which is one reason, I believe, that critics will tend to dislike (or even ignore) the series altogether. Metacritic scores this one 56, based on one review. So critics are not exactly lining up to pan this one. The truth is, few viewers of a drama series really want to entertain a serious question about their own lives: is their evil in the world? For those of us who must answer with a resounding "Yes", this series provides, in a perverse way perhaps, a kind of comfort. Yes there is evil in the world, and even the ostensibly "evil" one is upset about it. I think evil exists and it upsets me off, too. So I cannot help but like the protagonist here. On the other hand, that I do like him is scary because he might become the person he least wishes to be. The potential is there in him, as it is in all of us. Each of us could, if we're not careful, become the person we least wish to be. There's a universal truth if there ever was one. Who wants to be reminded of that? Probably not people with their heads in the sand. That's why they put them there in the first place.Knowing one's own potential, for good or ill, is a serious way to be, to think and to act. Self-knowledge is a universal concern, and to that extent, it is a distinctly un-humorous proposition. Humor is, to the extent that it's funny, provincial in character. THat is why we are able to laugh at stereotypes, in certain contexts, even though they offend us in other contexts. Self-knowledge is a universal concern. In and of itself, it does not make us laugh, in part, because there is self-deception (=evil) involved. That is, knowledge exists within, and might emerge victorious over, deception and confusion. This is war, metaphorically speaking. Of course.Humor makes us laugh by showing that self-deception is provincial and small-minded. But the fact of self-deception is not, in itself, funny.So as campy and over-the-top as this (or any other, thematically similar) production tends to be, there is comfort in the fact that art, symbolically, addresses the truth of our subjective experiences around touchy, unfunny, but nonetheless real elements. Aside from a fine cast overall, that Barbara Hershey's character returns, full of chillingly evil characterization, is a MAJOR score for the series.

dileepraja-me This was one of the amazing shows i have ever seen. People who are in to supernatural series should definitely watch this series. In some episodes the acting was poor and the actors delivered dialog poorly. The script lacked the depth expected.The effects are not much. I expected much horror but i ended up disappointed. Although it had lags at some places the series delivered the entertainment and excitement to satisfaction. I definitely enjoyed it more than Walking dead.Some one with not much exceptions could enjoy it more. Too bad it wont have season2, i urge the producers and directors to make the season 2 happen. Enjoyable to the end. :)