393. Web-series Reviews – 208

More web-series reviews… Temple – Ran from 2019 to 2021 with 2 seasons. UK version of the Norwegian show about a surgeon who is determined to save his dying wife to the point of agreeing to treat criminals and others for cash in his highly illegal secret underground clinic. A review from IMDB... This weird contrivance pulls together a web of unlikely and diverse characters who are drawn ever closer to the dark goings-on in the underbelly of Temple tube station. In the centre of this web is a brilliant heart surgeon who is grimly determined to cheat death. The magnetic screen presence of Mark Strong playing the brooding Doctor Daniel Milton (Paradise Lost reference there?) contrasts wonderfully with the desperation and idealism of his 'partner in crime' Lee Simmons (Daniel Mays). The doctor is suave, focused and emotionally closed - while the avid 'Prepper' Simmons is expressively neurotic; it's great chemistry. The surgery scenes are laughably brutal and realis...