I have no objection to revisionism like that; I loved McNamara's "The Favorite," one of my favorite plays of recent years is Lucas Hnath's "A Doll's House, Part 2," and Shakespeare is nothing if not taking old stories and repurposing them for contemporary audiences. There was just something about the British smugness of this one that hit all the wrong notes for me.
What was especially puzzling was, since Catherine is an outsider anyway, why make her speak in that British accent? Let her be German via America. It worked for Armando Iannucci in "The Death of Stalin" (another revisionist take that I enjoyed, by the way). --Dave Sikula On Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 7:25:29 AM UTC-7, Tom Wolper wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 1:01 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < > tvor...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I’m about halfway through episode one and am hard pressed to think of >> another show I’ve hated as much. Except for Adam Godley, I cant find any >> saving graces. >> >> YMMV. >> > > I did say it caught my attention despite its flaws, not that those flaws > weren't prominent. The whole season was written by Tony McNamara based on a > play he wrote and apparently only performed in Sydney years ago. Making > historical drama means taking historical narratives and bringing them to a > modern audience in a modern idiom. I don't really identify with McNamara's > vision but over the course of the season an interesting story develops: a > young enlightenment era noble woman is brought to the detached, corrupt, > and decadent Russian court to become empress. Can she gain power, is it > worth gaining power, and what will she have to sacrifice of her beliefs and > morals to do it? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/67625741-0904-46df-b6b4-32c799da384fo%40googlegroups.com.
