Review of Caprica: Season 1.0 [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Engrossing and tantalizing slow-building drama set 58 years before Battlestar Galactica. How and why were the Cylons created? We start to find those answers in the first half of Caprica's first and only season. Some parts work and some not as much. Eric Stoltz and Paula Malcomson are exceptional as the powerful Graystone family and their side of the story dominates the screen. Less interesting is the Adama side, although no fault of intense Esai Morales as future Admiral Bill's father Joseph, because his search for his dead daughter in the virtual world makes very little progress in relation to screentime. Also unfortunate is that promising actress Alessandra Torresani is mostly confined to acting as the human component inside a robot body. I also wish the episodes would stick to one storyline for longer stretches rather than jumping back and forth, a tactic that seems mostly unnecessary for this series. I look forward to Season 1.5 and have a feeling I will be gnashing my teeth over another quality series that met an undeserved demise.