Overview
Set in the ancient English city of York, Eternal Law is about angels living amongst us, helping and guiding humans when they are at their most desperate. The series starts with one grumpy, seen-it-all-a-million times angel called Zak arriving to start a fresh tour of duty with his new colleague, the constantly amazed neophyte, Tom, who has never before spent time with humans. They live in a ramshackle house stuffed with books and paintings, where they are looked after by the beautiful, mysterious Mrs. Sheringham.
We discover that in his previous tour of duty Zak did a terrible, completely forbidden thing--he fell in love with a human woman, Hannah. To his horror he realises that Hannah has been put in York to tempt him, to test him. Although he loves her with every fibre of his body he knows he can never be with her. It is a cruel, bruised, aching romance.
There are angels in all walks of life but our angels are lawyers. Which means that, every episode, they have to deal with humans at their lowest and most exposed. It could be a man standing trial for murder; a bitter custody battle; a fight to save an old people's home; a frightened young squaddie accused of cowardice. Our angels strive their best to fight for their clients, to win their cases, to put them back on the straight and narrow. They don't always win but they always fight to the last.
Eternal Law is emotional, funny and fresh. Each episode ends with Zak and Tom high up on York Minster, wings out, sharing a bottle of wine and talking about this week's case. They find human beings complicated, contradictory, vain, baffling, greedy, passionate, illogical... and utterly, compellingly wonderful.
Aqueli Roach and Samuel West are cool, but then again, with a good script, they would be even better. Orla Brady is also cool (and her character has a more interesting line, but it could have been quite a fire) - and beautiful. Tobias Menzies is fiendishly (pun intended) hot here, he should have more such roles (and more of him in the frame; he also squeezes the maximum out of a so-so script). Well, occasionally you can see familiar faces.: David Bradley, Sam Spruell, Sam Heseldine; which is also encouraging (British communal, cho). Another advantage is that York as a location is quite a pleasant place, it brings variety.
Using the terminology of Maishous, "you can see," although not necessarily. There would be a remake here, but the show is too old, hardly anyone will take it.
Человечество in a nutshell