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Did the first 20 minutes feature the rather gruesome torture scene? If that's what put you off, that scene is not representative of the series at all. The violence in subsequent episodes was actually pretty mild by today's standards.
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So, wanting to get along with my wife, we found something else to watch. - Glenn
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Maybe they threw in the torture scene at the beginning to hook the Game of Thrones crowd, not that I didn't like Game of Thrones, I hasten to add! |
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I see "Versailles" and all I can think of is Versailles KY. Worked at TI in Versailles in the 90's!
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I've added 'Crown' to the title, as this is the latest series my wife and I are watching, mainly on the recommendations of a few posters here. I didn't think I was going to like it on account of it being perhaps too recent history - after all, a number of the characters are still alive if not exactly kicking - but like it we do. One thing we felt, though, is that the directors/producers have really put all their eggs in the catastrophe basket, focusing on all the calamities that beset not only the royal family, but anyone else in their sphere. The Queen is alone and bearing a terrible responsibility, the Duke is chronically frustrated and not really in love with his wife, Margaret's profound love for Townsend is sacrificed at the altar of traditional respectability, and Churchill is a man living on past glories and gradually falling apart through old age. Even his young secretary gets run over and killed in the fog epidemic of the early 50s!
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I enjoyed the Crown very much and hope they add more shows
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Versailles and Crown: Sounds like an upscale cop show.
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Ditto. But I'm not sure we made 20 minutes.
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Yvonne and I just watched Adams last year--I reckon we were too impoverished to watch it when it was on HBO.
It's very powerful--and I think I've gained a deeper understanding of the first few years of US history. I've got another tip--the BBC series "The Hollow Crown" takes Shakespeare's History plays in chronological order from Richard II through Richard III--though I admit it will be a bit too gruesome for some watchers. I'm glad I didn't live through the War of the Roses. The acting is top drawer--Jeremy Irons as Henry 4, Tom Hiddleston as Hal, Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard Crookback.
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okay, okay... back to "Versailles"... - Glenn
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What the heck - the thread is proving an interesting one for picking up suggestions about other good series.
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No idea ... I must have put it out of my mind. I've been known to walk out of theaters five minutes into a movie I paid $12 to see. They too were forgettable.
EDIT: Nope, didn't get that far (I checked). I think it was the amateurish acting an dialog that turned me off. The settings and costuming were superb, though. Last edited by RustyAxe; 01-11-2017 at 01:05 PM. |
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In stark contrast, for me, was Game of Thrones. I've enjoyed it a lot through the sheer scope of imagination, settings and drama, but the characters themselves ... they're so one-dimensional (okay, maybe two ...) that I found myself not caring much whether any of them lived or died. Do we really care when Rob Stark is shot full of arrows or Jon Snow assassinated? Perhaps for an audience that's drooling over Jon Snow's looks, that wouldn't be the case! |