User Reviews

This is a really good show. I generally don't like shows with an excessive amount of sex scenes, but this is one of the few where it actually makes sense and doesn't feel like it's shoved in to keep horny people watching. The plot itself is really great, and the character development throughout the seasons are top notch. The only thing I don't like it sometimes characters will seem to do ridiculously stupid things just to move the plot forward or give the audience a shocking scene. In that way, it feels like lazy writing on occasion. The ending is somewhat rushed since the show was canceled, but it was still surprisingly satisfying for what they can do with the time they had. Lydia Quigley is one of my favorite villains in media.

I havent seen anything this bad for a long long time. Deliberately crude and coming across like the kind of pseudo-England made for American audiences we have been cringing at for decades. It is a confused mess of a story that tries to get by on ribald humour and parts of better series. It desperately wants to be a middle ground between Game of Thrones and Peaky Blinders in the pseudohistorical shagfest department but lacks the writing talent of both series. It has been a long, long time since I saw something this bad on TV and I feel pity and fremdschamen that an actor as good as Alfie Allen graced this trash with his presence.

It could be a lot worse. My biggest beefs are the abundant anachronisms, the generally poor writing, and some of the performances. It also suffers from the current malaise of wallowing in the gruesome and the prurient. But the sets and costumes are nice and some of the performances are not nauseating.