This began as an enjoyable historial fantasy romp reminiscent of the Saturday rnoring children's matinee serial, then sadly in Season two it became silly and by Season three had completely run out of steam so that I was desperate for it to end. In fact, I still haven't got all the way through the last episode. It didn't bother me that they played fast and loose with history, nor the modern dialog and swearing, and Leonardo apparently having invented everything but the atomic bomb, nor that he ended up in cliff hanger peril and got out of if it in every episode only to fall headlong into another cliff hanger, but the eternal darkness and the characters sloshing about in mud and pouring rain got tiresome after a while. I was even prepared to ignore the very loose ends in the plot, such as how they arrived on the east coast of South America, and after a day or so hacking through the jungle, arrived in the high Andes at what appeared to be Machu Pichu, but it just became silly. Good actors, such as Richard Sammell were wasted in brief cameos. At least Greg Chillingirian was a treat to watch, especially with the open to the waist shirt which never got dirty, displaying his manly chest. I would have given Season One a rating of 10, but the latter Seasons barely rated a 2, so I evened it out.
Review of Da Vinci's Demons
Da Vinci's Demons
(2013–2015)
McGyver meets Indiana Jones in the Game of Thrones as told by H.Ryder Haggard.
12 July 2023