Oh dear, this one really isn't my cup of tea. It puts me in a dilemma, as although I could easily yawn myself into a coma on the sofa watching this I know that a lot of young Mills and Boon type romantics will lap it up. For this reason I will give it eight stars rather than the four it would otherwise get.Catherine (Linda Hamilton) is a young and capable city attorney and Vincent (Ron Perlman) is the big furry faced fella living in some caves under her feet. The two share a strong telepathic bond which enables them to sense each others emotions wherever they happen to be. The series follows the ups and downs of their relationship as challenged by various conflicting human stories from the environment of the surrounding metropolis.The two main cast members are good but I can't help feeling that if only the writers had dumped the fantasy element altogether this could have been a terrific solo vehicle for Linda Hamilton as a straight forward cop show. I'm thinking of a female version of Petrocelli. We would probably all still be watching reruns today. It's interesting to note that George R.R. Martin's name appears during the end credits. Sadly for me this doesn't help. It's more 'Game Of Groans' than 'Game of Thrones'.So what's my problem? No not that one, the doc says I can fix that by doing crosswords, taking long walks and drinking lots of mango juice. What makes me grind my teeth is the over the top flowery dialogue and voice-overs. Before you think what a miserable old grump this bloke sounds I do have the likes of 'Brief Encounter' in my collection which was quite enjoyable. I just like my love stories a little more low key.Here's a typical scenario that illustrates the problem.Catherine is reclining on her posh high-rise balcony gazing thoughtfully at the moon at two in the morning after a hard day's attorneying. She's all dolled up in an expensive gown and slurping Prosecco, when up pops Vincent out of nowhere wearing an old sack, covered in fleas and smelling faintly of sewage. He starts spouting his usual spiel- 'I love you Catherine. I love you! We are two songbirds sitting on separate branches of the enlightened tree of Venus, sometimes far apart but always singing the same song. It's heard only by the angels Catherine because only they can recognise a love as deep as ours. We are bound together for ever wherever life may take us. Only the angels know this Catherine, but they are sworn to eternal silence. I love you Catherine! I love you! I love you! I love you!' Now in all honesty what is she likely to do here? Will she go all doe-eyed and invite him in so that he can drop old bits of sausage roll, used tea bags and potato peelings all over her plush new carpet, or will she wait until he's not looking and then push him over the balcony railing with a long handled broom and have the whole place disinfected the next day? I know which option my money's on.By the way, if any of you younger chaps are thinking of using that speech for your next chat up attempt, DONT, it doesn't work (especially if her name isn't Catherine).

The adventures and romance of a sensitive and cultured lion-man and a crusading assistant district attorney in Manhattan, New York City. Although it's nowhere near as good as the animation that was released on 1991 this 1987 TV Series starring Linda Hamilton (The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day) and Ron Perlman as Vincent (Hellboy). What i really loved about the show was how Vincent tried to help his people and even strangers that he just met and plus his relationship with Catherine was really good but the series does have flaws mostly with some episodes really just being not that great but overall go check it out and you might actually enjoy it.

This is a great series. I was a bit disappointed in season 3 because it was much more depressing and obviously, Catherine was gone. As the whole premise was about Cathy and Vincent, this was not the best end to a fairytale romance series. That said, I enjoyed it overall and seasons 1&2 were great escapism.Vincent is the answer to a woman's dream in the romance department and he also has a bit of the bad boy in him (strange how he was never held accountable for any of the numerous murders he committed- criminals or not). He captures the heart and soul with his poetry and kindness. Who wouldn't want that in a man/beast (sans murders)? Great memories from my teenage years watching and wishing for my own Vincent - I kind of have one now. Except he's not a genetic mutation and doesn't live beneath the streets.I disagree with one reviewer (Venus-25, NY) who states that we never found out how Vincent became the way he was. In the episode where Vincent discovers that Paracelsus could be his real father, "Father" clearly explains to Vincent how his mother looked in horror at Paracelsus when she realized in her agony of giving birth that Paracelsus has done a bizarre experiment on her. So Vincent is the result of a medical experiment which killed his mother as she gave birth to him.

OK, I've been reading several of the reviews/comments here, and as I'm an adult now (mostly), I forgot for a moment that I was 12 when this series first aired. I certainly never thought of this as an adult or child's program. I simply found the premise of this show fascinating, and I loved the chemistry between Vincent and Catherine (until it got bizarre in the last season when Linda Hamilton left). I also quite simply, fell in love with Vincent, and later came to learn who Ron Perlman was, and have tried to watch him in anything I can get my hands on that isn't too bizarre (a very strange French movie comes to mind on the bizarre scale). Point being, this show reached a far range of viewers of all ages. Why? I wish I knew. I think that tom_amity has some incredible theories and insights, and I was impressed that as a guy (no offense) he, I feel has some very good points.I also feel that this show was taken in completely the wrong direction in it's last season. Between the forced consummated relationship of Catherine and Vincent, resulting in Catherine's death, and Vincent becoming a father, and the suddenly incredibly violent path that the show took, well, I have to say that I was incredibly confused as to what had transpired between the season finale of season two, and the season opener of season three, and had a very hard time following what was supposed to be going on. I think that it was a mistake to have tried to alter the show so tremendously.Someone here mentioned that there was no show like this ever again. I happen to think that person was wrong. Another show I watched faithfully after this one, that also seemed to end badly (and also on CBS... pattern anyone?) was Forever Knight. That show to me had very similar elements going on, what with the main character being a kind of freak, and his at-a-distance lover (the gal that worked in the morgue) and how it was obvious that they were attracted to each other, but could not be together. That show too eventually had problems and got a little stranger toward the end.I would love to know why it's so difficult for networks to accept that which is different but has such great potential? Both of these shows were incredible, and both wound up having a short life, and both wound up going in strange directions before finally burning out.