The Almighty Johnsons
Feb. 2nd, 2012 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormouse1953This looks like it might be fun.
Syfy have been trailing this for some weeks, so I gave the opening episode a try tonight. It's a New Zealand series about a family - called the Johnsons - and on his twenty-first birthday Axl, the youngest, finds they are all re-incarnations of Norse gods. What's more, when he goes through his transformation he discovers he is Odin.
It's funny, but it's played straight. Brother Anders is a poetry god, which gives him the power persuasion - he seems to run an ad agency. Olaf, who Axl thought was his cousin, turns out to be his grandfather. He's Baldr and ages very slowly. He's something of a stoner and also an Oracle. There's a prophecy that Odin needs to find the re-incarnation of Frig for the gods to fully regain their powers, and a group of women who are trying to kill Axl.
Only one famous name in the cast. Keisha Castle-Hughes plays Axl's flatmate, Gaia. I recognised the name as she was in a film called Whale Rider about ten years ago when she became the youngest actress to be nominated for the Best Actress Oscar.
Definitely will watch again next week.
Syfy have been trailing this for some weeks, so I gave the opening episode a try tonight. It's a New Zealand series about a family - called the Johnsons - and on his twenty-first birthday Axl, the youngest, finds they are all re-incarnations of Norse gods. What's more, when he goes through his transformation he discovers he is Odin.
It's funny, but it's played straight. Brother Anders is a poetry god, which gives him the power persuasion - he seems to run an ad agency. Olaf, who Axl thought was his cousin, turns out to be his grandfather. He's Baldr and ages very slowly. He's something of a stoner and also an Oracle. There's a prophecy that Odin needs to find the re-incarnation of Frig for the gods to fully regain their powers, and a group of women who are trying to kill Axl.
Only one famous name in the cast. Keisha Castle-Hughes plays Axl's flatmate, Gaia. I recognised the name as she was in a film called Whale Rider about ten years ago when she became the youngest actress to be nominated for the Best Actress Oscar.
Definitely will watch again next week.
