Should have gone blonde instead of Emily Cox...
Posted on 10/10/2015 2:40:56 PM PDT by Hugin
Thanks to "Game of Thrones," television just can't get enough of the Middle Ages. Those flickering smoky interiors, enormous woolly coats and bloody, ax-heavy battles; the remarkable décolletage, the picaresque foliage and mud. Sometimes there's magic, sometimes there isn't, but, by gosh, there's always plenty of bloody hacking and mud.
Certainly "The Last Kingdom," the BBC drama that premieres Saturday and is based on the first book of Bernard Cornwell's "Saxon Tales," checks all these boxes in short order.
Don't let the exposition-heavy first episode fool you; this may be a sword 'n' longboat epic with a handsome hero at its heart, but as adapted by Stephen Butchard, it subtly grows more complex with each passing hour until that hero becomes, to a certain extent, a supporting player in the far more dramatic epic of history.
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Swords aplenty.
You’re all crazy for our British dramas and period-costume things.
I bet you all love “Downton Abbey”. You know I’ve never watched that myself!
Should have gone blonde instead of Emily Cox...
Personally, I do!......I have collected many of them.
But we Yanks can turn out some great drama too!...
I am enjoying TURN......about our American Revolution (you guys are mentioned in there, too :)
TURN is excellent....fleshes out the characters we know mostly from our history books....without compromising integrity.
I liked the Poirot mysteries with David Suchet, set in the 1930s.
I can’t wait to see them. I read all the books..
Can’t wait to see Ivar the Boneless.
If they follow the books, Uhtred will be portrayed as one badass but pragmatic hero with a very sarcastic sense of humor.
I will be watching-I love Cornwell’s books, and wouldn’t miss it-I have all the books in that series, and have read each one at least twice-and I just ordered the newest one from Amazon UK last week...
My favorite after thirty five years is still ..
I CLAUDIUS.
OHH I waiting for this thing to start
I been hearing good stuff about it
I hear we may see Ivar the Boneless
You could see him as a boy right now in History Channel version of Vikings
I will hold my breath until there’s a mention of St. Thomas Aquinas. The Middle Ages rule!
Looking forward to Dr. Who.
I really like Capaldi. Reminds me of the 3rd Doctor.
Recently, I gave in and watched the revamped Poldark. I liked it a lot. Somewhere I have the 1970s version.
Tommy And Tuppence from the 80s is a favorite around here.
I think it was set in the 1920s.
The new series is set in the 1950s. I haven't seen it.
I will try the new ones but the campy originals are fun despite Tuppence’s silly hats.
They tried make The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin but it could never match the original with Leonard Rossiter. There is only one C.J.
...and then there’s Reggie the Bone...
I think season 4 of Vikings we see more mature Ivar the Boneless they working on season 4 in Ireland
As for other BBC series I haven't seen too many, but I did watch Copper on Netflix last year and liked it a lot.
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