History Series / Brimstone

* SinisterMinister: In [[spoiler: the pilot episode]].

* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler: Detective Ash.

* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler: Detective Ash]]

* {{Confessional}}: The opening scene of uses the confessional as exposition that the protagonist has been brought back from the dead to hunt down 113 souls who have escaped from Hell. When the priest demands to know why he's telling this ridiculous story, the protagonist says: "Oh I think you know." (The priest is one of the 113).

* SatanIsGood: The Devil isn't necessarily evil. In fact, he's in charge of punishing evildoers, hence his need to get the 113 escapees back to hell. He is, however, an unrepentant {{Jerkass}}. [[hottip:*: His need to get the souls back may also be partially motivated by self-interest. It's impled that he's accountable to God and will suffer if he allows the souls to run free.]]

* FoeRomanticSubtext: Between Zeke and [[spoiler: Ash]]. It started off as mutual attraction, until she got his shirt off and saw her name tattooed on his chest. She still seems to have some interest in him, however.

* FoeYay: Between Zeke and [[spoiler: Ash]]. It started off as mutual attraction, until she got his shirt off and saw her name tattooed on his chest. She still seems to have some interest in him, however.

A show that was entirely TooGoodToLast; it suffered from constant pre-emptions and never quite found its audience, and was canceled after just 13 episodes. Lasted from October, 1998 to February, 1999.

* RunningGag: Whenever Ezekiel met Satan in an elevator, it would ''always'' be on it's way down.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Done in the pilot when one cop hints he's Jewish.
--> "I'm more old testament. You go your way, I go YAHWEH".

* EvilIsPetty: When ever Satan drops by, he will engage in some petty prank of anonymous evil. Such as ticketing a legally parked car. loosening a salt shaker. or tying shoelaces together.

* {{Troll}}: Satan.

* TheJerkassHasAPoint: In one of the later episodes, the devil calls Ezekiel out on stuff he did in his life.

A kind of satanic version of ''{{Highlander}}''. Detective Ezekiel Stone was damned to Hell in 1983 for killing, in cold blood, the man who raped his wife after he got OffOnATechnicality. Fifteen years later, 113 of the most vicious damned souls in Hell escaped to Earth. Satan, furious at having been "beaten", sent Stone back to Earth to track them down and kill them, returning them to Hell. If he succeeds, he gets the greatest reward of all; a second life on Earth, and thus a second chance at Heaven.

* IShowedHerWhatARealManIs: The main reason Zeke was in Hell in the first place. He tracked down his wife's rapist. The guy bragged about it. Zeke opened fire.

* {{Expy}}: The villainess of "Carrier" does a pitch-perfect [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Harley Quinn]] impression. Given the episode also makes a reference to Stone being Batman, this seems fully intentional.

* JacobMarleyApparel: Zeke always has exactly what he died with on him -- including his handgun, whose bullets instantly replenish themselves as they're fired, and the $36.27 US he had in his pockets, which reappears in his pockets every single time he reaches in for it.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted: the escaped souls are often evil, and one would expect them to be, but, in fact at least a few were shown to have been genuinely good people who made horrific decisions, or in at least one case, were doing what they believed to be the best, only to then be judged by another religion's values, after dying. One was even so genuinely contrite and seeking redemption [[spoiler: that he was taken to heaven instead of sent back to hell upon his recapture]].

* SatanIsGood: The Devil isn't necessarily evil. In fact, he's in charge of punishing evildoers, hence his need to get the 113 escapees back to hell. He is, however, an unrepentant {{Jerkass}}.

A kind of satanic version of ''{{Highlander}}''. Detective Ezekiel Stone was damned to Hell in 1983 for killing, in cold blood, the man who raped his wife. Fifteen years later, 113 of the most vicious damned souls in Hell escaped to Earth. Satan, furious at having been "beaten", sent Stone back to Earth to track them down and kill them, returning them to Hell. If he succeeds, he gets the greatest reward of all; a second life on Earth, and thus a second chance at Heaven.