Forever [** Spoilers **]

Fell behind with a lot of my TV watching and only now catching up with all the shows that fell on the back burner. Initially I had planned to start catching up with Supernatural but opted instead for Forever. Up to episode 16 and it really is a show which ticks all the boxes. It tells an adult and intelligent story while at the same time managing to tack on a mystery of the week which much like the Highlander TV series allows Henry's flashbacks to tell us his story and impact on the weekly tale.

In other shows, things like Abe finding out that him and Henry are related would feel contrived and over the top but here it works. There's a sweetness to it that's infectious, it's an honest and human moment that just works. That the show can tackle issues such as Nazism and the scars of Auschwitz with such empathy is a credit to the writers. They've even made Adam human and a fully fleshed out character rather than just the big evil.

The whole Adam and Henry story reminds me a little of the Highlander anime and I think that had the show gone the distance it would have been interesting to see the writers try something like set future series far off in the future. Henry's struggle is one that opens up a whole slew of possibilities as it can go anywhere. Shame that there's only 6 episodes to go before I see the last of Henry.

Just finishing up episode 21 and it's just a wonderful piece of television, the kind of show that really could have grown into something exceptional. I said it before and I'll say it again but this is the kind of procedural that we need more of, it takes a formula as old as the hills and injects it with something fresh, not through fancy CGI or being dark and gritty but rather by telling an adult story and not treating death as cheap titillation.

Forever started it's run as a show that was pretty much what would happen had Sherlock Holmes been a Highlander and developed into one of the best shows of the past year.

I almost don't want to watch the final episode as I know that afterwards, I won't see any more of Henry and Abe and that's a rather sad thing it must be said. The past two episodes have managed to be far more emotional than I ever expected from the show based on its set up. The Adam and Henry phone call was just wonderfully told with the writers once again giving Adam a sliver of humanity, which helps him stand out as something more than just a villain.