For starters, this would have been a complete disaster with anybody but Bruce Campbell in the lead. He manages to salvage something out of a show with horrific scripts.
The premise: Jack (Campbell) is a US spy in 1801, sent by president Thomas Jefferson to an obscure island to subvert Napoleon's expansionism in that part of the world. There he teams up with a gorgeous British spy to accomplish his mission. To do this, he assumes the identity of Dragoon, a Zorro-like folk hero.
It's a comedy, but the action sequences tend to be the highlights of the show. Much of the "comedy" seems to be junior high double entendres. (A parrot is warned that his girlfriend would leave him for a cockatoo.) I suspect that Campbell cringed over many of the lines he had to deliver but in Hollywood, a successful actor is a working actor. So if his character, in 1801, has to reference Little Orphan Annie, then so be it.
Nutshell: it's fun to watch, with a truly rousing theme song, but sophomoric writing brings it down.
The premise: Jack (Campbell) is a US spy in 1801, sent by president Thomas Jefferson to an obscure island to subvert Napoleon's expansionism in that part of the world. There he teams up with a gorgeous British spy to accomplish his mission. To do this, he assumes the identity of Dragoon, a Zorro-like folk hero.
It's a comedy, but the action sequences tend to be the highlights of the show. Much of the "comedy" seems to be junior high double entendres. (A parrot is warned that his girlfriend would leave him for a cockatoo.) I suspect that Campbell cringed over many of the lines he had to deliver but in Hollywood, a successful actor is a working actor. So if his character, in 1801, has to reference Little Orphan Annie, then so be it.
Nutshell: it's fun to watch, with a truly rousing theme song, but sophomoric writing brings it down.