That was an excellent one.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

BALSAMO is a series about some thrilling 18th century French adventures; Marais plays Joseph Balsamo. In a word, it is perfectly, entirely enjoyable TV. BALSAMO also gave a taste of how might have been to love all those unusually awesome vamps—those classy, stylish ladies.I have seen this TV series when I was 13 and I remember enjoying it enormously—the excitement, the adventure, the eeriness of the depicted age, the handsome Marais, the beautiful women …. I am such a great fan of Marais and perhaps I should have spoken a lot more already about his movies—those worth watching—like BALSAMO and a melodrama with Danielle Darrieux and an action thriller like TRAIN D'ENFER--but I will make it up in the future.