Why is it, that despite having a decent budget and decent actors , Sky productions so often end up being way less than a sum of their parts?
The locations are great, the camerawork is OK and the costumes are top notch. The premise is also intriguing. The problem is it seems to have been written by AI - perhaps it was.. What you get is everything you've seen in similar productions like The Tudors or Wolf Hall but with none of the ingenuity, none of the individuality and most of all, none of the spark. It is bland, predictable and at times nonsensical. Someone in production has clearly noticed this and ramped up the sex and language to 10 to try to compensate for the lack of much else going on.
Pretty disappointing.
The locations are great, the camerawork is OK and the costumes are top notch. The premise is also intriguing. The problem is it seems to have been written by AI - perhaps it was.. What you get is everything you've seen in similar productions like The Tudors or Wolf Hall but with none of the ingenuity, none of the individuality and most of all, none of the spark. It is bland, predictable and at times nonsensical. Someone in production has clearly noticed this and ramped up the sex and language to 10 to try to compensate for the lack of much else going on.
Pretty disappointing.