I thoroughly enjoyed this show but was upset at the SCI-FI network for cancelling it after season 2 the show was well crafted and casted and it came at an great time when actresses started dominating in larger action roles including Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft the tomb raiding goddess and Milla Jovovich kicking zombie butt to cap it all off the star of drop zone and hard target Yancey Butler playing an detective by day and superherione by night as detective sara pezini who comes to terms of her new found abilities to wield the awesomeness of the witchblade an ancient artefact that magically found its way on to her wrist that each generation an new witchblade warrior is born and blending bullet time the effects used in countless of film and television commercials before Butler honed the role and I was impressed with her performance in the show and the soundtrack was amazing I am giving this an 20/10 .frankie holtzmann smales alienbugstomperfan

One of those productions that just flat-out got lost in the shuffle. Butler caught a lot of eyeballs in the 90s counterpointing JCVD in Hard Target, but this oddball production (filmed in Canada, BTW, to keep costs down ... DUH!) may end up being remembered as the high-water-mark of her career. To do a proper job playing the female cop that accidentally dons the sacred relic, the witchblade, you need to be equal parts action-hero, stunt woman, romantic lead, and just plain sassy. Butler delivered the goods. The production values were very high for an off-the-books indie, and there were some standouts in the casting, especially Anthony Cistaro as a super-villain who made the most bizarre requests seem reasonable (in the tradition for example of a Bond baddie) and Eric Etebari, who used as especially soft-spoken delivery (like Stephen Amell in Arrow) to contrast a predilection for action. The short-lived series also features one of the greatest "resets" ever seen in a TV series, a sort of time travel riff which allows the hero, Butler, to undo all the damage done in the first season by invoking the witchblade, and essentially start over. Never saw that one before, but it was memorable.

I had the good fortune of watching the whole season in one day on TNT while at a friend's house. I lucked out and got to do this with both seasons. It was just like having the DVD's only I had to suffer through commercials. The story flowed well and the plot lines were excellent.The spinning back of time was Very Convenient, but showed that aspect of the Blade in the telling. Interestingly, I have missed only two episodes in both seasons, both dealing with Concubar. I wish the season had been able to run longer so there could be some completion of that thread. It would have been interesting to see who the next threat to the universe would be once Mr. Nasty in such a great way was taken care of in the second season. The DVD's can be had for about $150 for both seasons at tvdvdplanet.com. It is interesting that they quote the normal price at $100, but they are charging $119.99 and $20 s/h. The only way to get them on Ebay is to bid on pirated copies from England. Excellent show. I wish they could bring it back. - Gioie

Perhaps one would appreciate the series more if one was familiar with the mythological history that invigorates its story. I enjoyed the series tremendously for this reason, and because it presented a vital alternative to the usual fare. A different story with all the same tropes of the genre would have been unexciting. Also, the series tries to cross two genres (fantasy and cop dramas) that probably don't cross well in the American cultural consciousness. The people that enjoy high fantasy and ancient mythology (to put these two together) likely aren't the same people who enjoy gritty cop dramas. That is, the audience is not sufficiently large to justify the show's continued existence.Likewise, though for different reasons, I attribute the demise of Farscape. It was innovative in ways that a large audience did not sufficiently appreciate, though I would have thought that its audience was sufficiently large for continued production. Again, the danger of breaking conformance to cultural consciousness.