The Sentinels review – this thrilling drama about super soldiers proves TV can be done differently

It’s exciting, propulsive and not based on the same old threadbare franchises … this adaptation of a French comic book series is a steampunky tale of a secret experiment to inject wounded first world war fighters with a serum The alternate history show has long been a TV mainstay, be it For All Mankind (what if the Soviets had won the space race?), The Man in the High Castle (what if the Axis powers had won the second world war?) or even Blackadder (what if Tudor history was essentially all nonsense?). The Sentinels enters this crowded, often conflict-heavy genre with a wartime premise of its

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