Kit Harrington puts in a good performance here and actually does a bit more than just look soulful all the time and mutter his lines in a monotone. I often wonder if directors have to take a whip and smack it near him to do anything at all that requires acting or moving around besides just looking cute and mouthing his lines, lol! Then again tho you never know...maybe he does try to actually put on a different, more intense performance but his superiors on each production continue to insist he just stand around and look sad from beneath his sexy curls, etc...who knows, right? Cos I can't imagine Kit would be doing this on purpose, lol! But all teasing aside,
I love Kit Harrington very much as I was a tremendous GoT fan (bf S8) and actually that's one of the reasons
I watched this series at all, even before I even knew that it was about Guy Fawkes. That and seeing it was a period drama!
But damn what performances Shaun Dooley and Peter Mullen put on and really everybody in this production are really unbelievable.
The only thing is I don't know why it's called Gunpowder? It's certainly not the "story of gunpowder" tho I suppose it's near the time when it was beginning to be used alot.
This series gets really gritty with the horrible torturing and executions. And since we all need to see the truth of what humans used to do to each other I forgive this.
But still as a side note, it really makes me angry about how apparently in our modern times, alot of people just want to go back to those days--and make no mistake, that's where we're going--specifically by persecuting and encouraging hatred of half the people in our country just for not subscribing to one person's narrative, exactly the same as banning certain religious beliefs in favor of "the one true faith" which is what's going on in this country right now.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this miniseries, especially bc my husband of 35 years, a pure-blooded English immigrant to the U. S., used to tell me all about how they annually celebrated Guy Fawkes Day in the UK around the same time of year we Americans celebrate Halloween. My husband, Martin Records, father of my four children, died suddenly in March of 2021 and we all miss him dearly.
But damn what performances Shaun Dooley and Peter Mullen put on and really everybody in this production are really unbelievable.
The only thing is I don't know why it's called Gunpowder? It's certainly not the "story of gunpowder" tho I suppose it's near the time when it was beginning to be used alot.
This series gets really gritty with the horrible torturing and executions. And since we all need to see the truth of what humans used to do to each other I forgive this.
But still as a side note, it really makes me angry about how apparently in our modern times, alot of people just want to go back to those days--and make no mistake, that's where we're going--specifically by persecuting and encouraging hatred of half the people in our country just for not subscribing to one person's narrative, exactly the same as banning certain religious beliefs in favor of "the one true faith" which is what's going on in this country right now.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this miniseries, especially bc my husband of 35 years, a pure-blooded English immigrant to the U. S., used to tell me all about how they annually celebrated Guy Fawkes Day in the UK around the same time of year we Americans celebrate Halloween. My husband, Martin Records, father of my four children, died suddenly in March of 2021 and we all miss him dearly.