Torchwood series

"Torchwood"
is an anagramm of "Doctor Who"...

The Torchwood series is a "adult" spin-off of the science fiction show Doctor Who. It's compounded of three seasons and revolves around the character of Jack Hawkness, who appears first in the Dr Who series and gets turned into an immortal man by a very Bad Wolf.

Through the Torchwood series, get involved in a world where being bisexual, being gay, being an alien, being in love, being unfaithful, being vulnerable, being forced to make the right choice even if it's not a good one, being human, in a word, isn't a taboo.

Be prepared to laugh, and be prepared to cry. Because here's no Doctor to fix it all at the end.

Captain Jack.
Sexy, manly, perhaps a bit too old for you, bloodily (pan)sexual.

First season: Something is moving in the dark.

Through the character of Gwen, ones gets introduced to the alien chasing world of Torchwood. Meet Captain Jack, who's oh so sexy but oh so NOT a good guy. Meet Ianto, apparently the coffee boy who knows it all and has a very good reason to have joined the team (Let me say, as a spoiler, that Ianto gets tortured a lot by the scenarists). Meet Owen, a real doctor and a true cynist. Meet Toshiko Sato, a pretty hard working japanese girl who's too shy to tell the one she loves about her feelings.

The stories are short, mostly interesting and absolutely "adult". Sex and death, you're going to get that a lot. And real questions too. And surprising endings -don't believe all will always turn out well.

I didn't like the last episode of the season, though. It felt too rushed to me.

Ianto Jones.
Cute, responsible, coarse-voiced, the scenarist's second favourite subject of torture.

Second season: You let go of my hand...

Same characters, same old principle of appealing short stories. However, people in there die. A lot. And even more than twice (I'm not counting Jack in -he's immortal, he dies in almost all episodes).

They get caught in awful situations. You won't believe they can get out of it. EVER. But then, they find a way. Not always the way you wish they would find. But they do.

And then, people you liked dies for real, and you cry. Seriously, are the guys who wrote that sadists of what?

Thoshiko Sato.
Pretty, very smart, high sense of duty, lacks of self-confidence,
is easily targeted by very wrong partners.

Third and last season: What choice do you have?

Brilliant. Absolutely, bloodily brilliant.

This season is short, only five episodes, all revolving around one main story. The main story triggers interesting, breathtaking questions, such as: if the only way to save humanity was to sacrifice millions of human lives, would you do it? Should you do it? Who are you ready to sacrifice?
It also gives us an intelligent insight of political choices, and by intelligent, I mean that politicians are not shown as bad or good, just as people. People in charge, which is sometimes worse.

So, to sum it up... Brilliant. Absolutely, bloodily brilliant.

Those felt like real stories with real people, and sometimes it's so real you start believing it's actually happening, that there really is a Torchwood institute and that aliens are roaming around in the streets.
Brilliant. Bloodily. And kind of heartbreaking, too.

I wouldn't want to be Jack for the world. (Well, for the world, maybe, but...) Being an immortal creature is one thing. Being an human who's immortal, hurts.

Owen Harper.
Cold, very cold (in more than one way), violent, easily and often angered,
a broken man inside (which doesn't make him any less despicable).

And last but not least...
Gwen Cooper.
The "main" character, the one who introduces us to Torchwood. Strong, determined, pretty, a high tendency to loose her temper (reason why I don't really fancy her).

A must see series.