I love this show. It was exciting, surprising, dramatic, scary, brutal, and actually insightful. Unfortunately, the season finale ends with a cliff hanger, and the story will never be continued as the show was cancelled after only one season.
After all has been said and done, the show's character Jane Van Veen finally chooses the side of evil, all in the fulfillment of her dreams, hopes and aspirations. Greed after all, and the especially the greed for wealth, power, money, fame and success at all cost - and yeah, for love too, is all too enshrined in the apex of self-glory.
The show explores the human drive for meaning, success and power over all others. The pursuit of worldly aspirations pushed to the limit, even at the expense of one's humanity. All too human, all too human. Gavin Durant has it all, power, apparently temporal and supernatural, dispensing people's hopes and dreams, at a price that is, and the price is the sacrifice of themselves, their loved ones, everything one values. Beside Gavin is his calculating wife Olivia, a woman who is classy, aristocratic, steely, ambitious and very supportive of her husband.
Henry Martin is the loving partner and soon husband of Jane who rises from virtual unknown to become the City's newest council member with an ambition to be a mayor one day. The show is actually a stark reminder of how success, or its blind pursuit, can ultimately destroy one's life. The show too is a testament to the political misfortunes of some American politicians like former Presidential candidate John Edwards and his affair with a woman while his wife was undergoing cancer treatment - not so discreetly incarnated in the portrayal of Councilman Sullivan's downfall.
Riveting show, unfortunately cut short. Nevertheless, it's worth a watch and offers invaluable insights into the recesses of human nature.
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