The first episode was very promising, the historical inaccuracies excusable for dramatic licence. Not so the two utterly false and apparently deliberate errors in the other 2 episodes. First the claim that a priest Fr John Gerard participated in the plot, which the BBC only just recently apologised for and re-edited another show "Elizabeth I's secret agents", only to now do it again. And secondly the depiction that the Spanish Ambassador found out about the plot from another priest and then reported it to the fiendishly anti-Catholic Lord Cecil. Both done presumably to make the story more "interesting". Totally unnecessary. Just tell the real story! It's gripping! the naivete of the conspirators letting the letter warning of the explosion to be sent to Monteagle because they thought it was vague enough that Cecil's agent's wouldn't guess. And separately the incredible true story of Fr John Gerard, who rather than the naive young priest relying on others to rescue him, escaped from the Tower (by climbing a rope strung across the moat, not crawling out a drain as sdepicted here) and spent years disguised as a fashionably dressed gambler whilst ministerig to his flock and having numerous hair's breadth escapes.
