I love period shows especially when most shows now, like Outlander and Downton Abbey attempt to recreate authentic period shows.. and why this show is so ridiculously terrible. The language is abysmal and so far away from authentic for the period it's insulting. The f word is thrown around so much which goes along with the gratuitous sex scenes which I assume are included to distract us from the choppy and ill conceived storyline that again, is not faithful to the period.. The accents are absolutely terrible especially Juliane Moores half American and poor attempt of an English accent.. she can't stick to one accent she's trying to attempt.
Basically, the story so far is a lower class mother who married for money.. gets rid of her husband and tries to pimp her son out to the King.. When her husband dies she discovers he left everything to his cousin because he knew his wife was a scammer. She then marries another man with money who has a cockney accent which again isn't realistic, to pay for her son's pimping education in France.
There is nothing entertaining, funny or interesting about this show so far but I will give it a few episodes, begrudgingly just to see how bad it gets.. With the total lack of attention to create an authentic period show from the costumes, language and even the carriages.. I won't be surprised with anything.. Apparently the budget was fairly high for this show so I suspect someone is pocketing some of it.. or Julian Moore is being paid far too much for her desperate performance..
I really think producers think viewers aren't very bright and all they have to do is add sex scenes and be controversial and people will ignore the total lack of substance or attempt to produce a quality show..
Basically, the story so far is a lower class mother who married for money.. gets rid of her husband and tries to pimp her son out to the King.. When her husband dies she discovers he left everything to his cousin because he knew his wife was a scammer. She then marries another man with money who has a cockney accent which again isn't realistic, to pay for her son's pimping education in France.
There is nothing entertaining, funny or interesting about this show so far but I will give it a few episodes, begrudgingly just to see how bad it gets.. With the total lack of attention to create an authentic period show from the costumes, language and even the carriages.. I won't be surprised with anything.. Apparently the budget was fairly high for this show so I suspect someone is pocketing some of it.. or Julian Moore is being paid far too much for her desperate performance..
I really think producers think viewers aren't very bright and all they have to do is add sex scenes and be controversial and people will ignore the total lack of substance or attempt to produce a quality show..