The series’s central character, Abe Woodhull (Jamie Bell), is an unlikely person to undertake such an investigation, preferring to keep his head down. One reason for him to do so is that he’s a chief suspect in the captain’s murder. At night neighbors appear to take revenge by burning down his cabbage barn, and even his father, Judge Woodhull (Kevin R. McNally), considers him the most likely culprit. The last and most dangerous of the investigators is Maj. Robert Rogers, commander of the Queen’s Rangers, or what we’d call the king’s special forces. I found it impossible to watch Angus Macfayden playing Rogers without thinking, “What an eccentric performance,” and I found it impossible to look away. He looks and sounds nothing like the real Rogers, but he injects a lot of needed energy into the story. All this takes place against the backdrop of Setauket’s celebration of Guy Fawkes’ Day on November 5th, 1776. Colonial Americans did celebrate that anniversary, particularly in New England, but in ways that would be awkward in today’s media. They called it “Pope Night” and burned giant effigies of the Pope to show their loyalty to British Protestantism. Turn opts for showing more recent Guy Fawkes’s Day rituals and celebrants wearing the sort of mask that David Lloyd designed for V for Vendetta in 1982. The Americans’ torture session is interrupted by the arrival of a general. At first I thought this was Washington, but a look at the cast list indicates he’s “General Scott” (Michael Gaston). In real life Tallmadge’s commander for a while was Col. Charles Scott. Meanwhile, over on “New York Island,” Maj. John Andre (J. J. Feild) has sex with an actress (Amy Gumenick), bragging about how good an intelligence officer he is. She transparently pumps him for information on the British military, which should cast some doubt on his boast. All in all, it seems wisest to forget most of what one knows about the American Revolution while watching Turn and take its version of the world on its own terms. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!