Reviews

So, I watched the first two episodes and tried to watch the third.... I couldn't. I wanted to like this, really I did, but I just can't go on... The show has amazing visual beauty. The set designs, CGI and wardrobes are all very impressive. The show has a high budget movie look and feel. They did really well in creating something that looks good enough to be a prequel to Peter Jackson's films.

Unfortunately they forgot what makes tolkiens world so good... a story with characters you care about. I could've even forgiven the goofy irish Harfoots if there was a strong storyline. I don't care about any of these characters at all. By the time I stopped watching I was hoping Sauron would sweep in and put the whole mess to the sword... perhaps that will be the season finale?

A movie with plenty of potential to be great, but not enough character development and a story line which slowly rolls downhill and fizzles out at the end. These issues have been adequately dealt with in other reviews, but I'd just like to point out that Val Kilmer should've been banned from making films a long time ago and this movie shows a good example of why. His voice had to be overdubbed (badly) throughout which indicates that he decided to make his character even sillier than it ended up being with some terrible add-libbing or a daft voice. The Brando-esque cotton balls in his cheeks make him look truly bizarre and his acting is simply awful. If his scenes were just cropped together a comedy short, of some quality, could be cobbled together with ease... Seriously, which casting director actually wants this guy any more??? He is truly mind bogglingly awful in this, so awful in fact that I gave 2 stars for the great location shots and 2 for Kilmers comedy gold.

Totally wrong-footed republican attack. If you are going to portray the monarchy in such a light, there are better ways to undermine it...Like factually.

The name is enough for anyone with a clue not to bother.

Charles was on the record as saying he will take the name George VII should his mother not outlive him. Yes, that's right, it's not an automatic naming system... Which is probably good as the king who fought Hitler would've been King Bertie the 1st. That he took the name Charles was only decided in the last year of HM Queen Elizabeth's reign,

If they can't be bothered to even get the basics correct, why should we bother to watch? Absolutely pointless drivel.

If you believe in alternative facts, which over 40% of Americans apparently do now, you may find this riveting. Only issue is that people who watch fox news are going to have trouble following the pseudo Shakespearean language. I'm guessing it's not going to be a box office spectacular.

Why did scores of people think this was a useful way to spend their time? Seriously, I'd appreciate some insight on why people bother creating such trash. You couldn't boast/use it on a CV/show it to friends or family. Why bother?

Don't expect historical facts,at all. Set during the Revolutionary war we are expected to believe the royal navy is being blockaded by Americans with Irish support in the Irish sea, that during the rape of china with opium and a roaring tea trade the head of the east India company (wrong man of course but Mr.Strange sounds SO cool)spends his spare time slave trading.....as an individual. And this is especially lucrative as he scuttles the ship wasting the slave cargo he was willing to risk all for?????

Also, we live in an era in London where lords,ladies and commoners freely mix and the latter rule London...lol. Every tough guy has more tattoos than David Beckham and street urchins wear Gothic eye makeup. the whores and ladies are dressed as Victorians, ball shot is used but blades aren't...so reload racing is how people fight,a bayonet would be far too easy. Except for our hero....he tears out throats with his teeth because he went to Africa....or was it Canada? I guess who cares, right? The main point is he found voodoo in Africanada and eats hearts. he can hear the dead, which is handy if bubbling water and whispering goths are your thing. Our hero comes from money...but talks and dresses like an industrial revolution coal miner from the north...when hes not speaking Canadiafrican voodoo,he might invest in rail t' mine next season!. His father was super wealthy and so is he, although he spent his youth as a cabin boy on slave ships....I'm so lost historically...but if you just forget ALL history and which period you're in and the entire class structure of Britain, its cool. Oh and in the 1700's you could csi your dads corpse...cool huh? and transsexuals, queers and Maoris they call Indians were widely accepted in dockside brothels, by the ever present... hooker with a heart o gold. There is a Victorian chemist and cocaine is widely used by him and his friends from the band 'Flock of Seagulls' although it wasn't invented 'til well after the war that is happening. Perhaps he brought it back in the time machine he uses to bring Victorian chemistry. If you actually sat down and carefully looked over the whole thing it has pretty much no basis in fact...perhaps season 2 will let us in on their whole lack of a time-line...perhaps its Supposed to be Sci Fi. Fun though. 7/10 for shear front. And for being watchable even though its clearly absurd.