This show gets a bad rap which comes down to the fact that it's a silly comedy. It's not TOO silly, it's just too silly for people who don't like silly. So many people gave up on it very quickly, not appreciating how hard it is to make a silly comedy that isn't overly-silly. It's a fine line.
It has some special moments and some good jokes. There were moments where it came close to annoying me, but managed to back off just in time.
The racial makeup of the cast was a bit jarring since it's unrealistic for 1600s Britain. It wasn't terrible and I wouldn't even bring it up, but it's unfair to the youth and those not-yet born to give them a distorted idea of Britain's past demographics. If people of African and Asian descent were in Britain at that time, they were an extreme exception and mostly within the upper classes, as peasants and labourers didn't have the luxury of traveling the world. History lesson over.
We neither needed the BBC to tell us how absurd the whole witch hunting thing was and how brutally women were treated by the Puritans and Calvinists, but we got it anyway.
Despite my criticisms, I'm not trashing it, and that's saying a lot.
It has some special moments and some good jokes. There were moments where it came close to annoying me, but managed to back off just in time.
The racial makeup of the cast was a bit jarring since it's unrealistic for 1600s Britain. It wasn't terrible and I wouldn't even bring it up, but it's unfair to the youth and those not-yet born to give them a distorted idea of Britain's past demographics. If people of African and Asian descent were in Britain at that time, they were an extreme exception and mostly within the upper classes, as peasants and labourers didn't have the luxury of traveling the world. History lesson over.
We neither needed the BBC to tell us how absurd the whole witch hunting thing was and how brutally women were treated by the Puritans and Calvinists, but we got it anyway.
Despite my criticisms, I'm not trashing it, and that's saying a lot.