Platicsco
Good story, Not enough for a whole film
Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Gary
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
kmbama
Big fan of the books and while not expecting a TV show to meet those expectations I have to say I'm underwhelmed. Poor adaptation which is probably primarily a result of a (very) limited special effects budget. Note to TV producers: If you're trying to make a TV series based on the supernatural, have a proper SFX budget. Other irritations are skipping over too many critical Dresden Files Universe points. (no spoilers here). As a result, the show runs more like a run of the mill detective series than anything else. And it's also primarily a Canadian production which means it looks like a Canadian production. (Love ya Canada but not everything has to look like an old USA Network show.) 5/ 10 Stars. If you're wondering why it got cancelled after one season.. don't. Buy the books.
Sandra Lynne
LOVED this show. Watched it twice. I discovered it on Netflix. Like many other shows I enjoyed, it ended in an untimely fashion. ex: The Finder, Kyle XY, Roswell, The Witches of Eastend, Frequency, to name a few. Very disappointing. Who gets to vote on which shows get cancelled and which ones do not? And where do I sign up?
nagarath
Lets be clear. I have NOT read the books but still I watched the show and I want to say something about it.. Books aside. I know there is a lot of fans of the books who hate this show. I like Sherlock Holmes but I don't want all the Sherlock series to be like the books. It would be boring! I'm open to different ideas what original base brings to people.It's show what got the brilliant idea from the books and it's not bad show. I like the way they decided to magic to work - it's more like realistic magic, if that word fit with it - and there is a lot of good actors.. I like the lead. He isn't bad at all. True he could be more colorful but it's his style. I was really interested about that world even thought the way they made the show seem to be bit outdated.There was a lot of mistakes. OK actors and like I said it's outdated (etc.) and seems had done in a bit hurry/low money. I personally didn't like all the females what changed all the time but I think that's from the books.. Or?But I remember one similar series from year 2000.. The Invisible Man. True there was a lot of s*** but still I love it. True it wasn't that serious and they even know it wasn't THAT good when they made it.. But still it was really INTERESTING. And it was from an interesting idea.. They made it a bit different but still good. Even thought it seems they had to do it cheap way. I feel like same happened a bit to The Dresden Files.I would want to read the books.. But because I liked The Dresden Files series so much.. Will I like the books at all? I think I might. I keep my mind open and don't compare things TOO MUCH to each others - especially when there is different people involved who made those things.Even thought I know where the origin comes from.. Books are books and TV-series are TV-series. We should look at them like that way. As a TV series The Dresden Files was a bit weak but still one of the interesting series I have ever watched and I will remember it.
Gunnar Graver
Bought the whole season after reading the first 8 books of the Dresden Files, and I must say: This is completely and utterly crap! I really can't understand why anyone who actually read and liked the books will find any remote interest in this show. It has nothing to do with the books what so ever. Everything is changed, and I mean absolutely everything. One can understand limitations concerning budget and so on, but this really won't do. Deviations to better adapt the books to television always happen, but really... What they have done here is more in line of creating Harry Potter where Harry instead were named Harriet and she went to boarding school in Romania... They also managed to fill the ethnic-quota...that means of course Morgan.(Anyone remember Kingpin in Daredevil?) Obviously nothing wrong with that, except Morgan is NOT a black man.In my opinion the ones who wrote the scripts for this obviously haven't read a single book. They tried to make a cross-breed between x-files and Buffy, and in that they probably succeeded, but this has nothing to do with the Dresden Files.Hopefully someone wants to take this to the big screen, and maybe, just maybe they'll do the books justice. Give this to Peter Jackson and I'm sure he'll make it perfect.
