On your recommendation I'm watching the first series. I'm on episode 4 and it's very good.Originally Posted by frequent
However, the actor playing (the future) Peter III is the spitting image of a young Gene Wilder, and I find that highly distracting - so much so that every 10 minutes I'm expecting him to announce his name is Froderick Fronkensteen
I'm very taken with the actor who plays the future Czar Paul I in the second series. Straight out of the Belami studio IMHO
My favourite line from the final episode of Succession in this series, about monogamy: "box set death march"
An apposite adjective
Reverting to Succession's final episode in this series - just don't mention Chappaquiddick
Ah, a fellow subscriber to Private Eye?
Gnomically
One of the sub-plots revolves around the eldest son who - we learned about half-way through the series - has a long-term “companion” who’s actually a hooker. In the last episode there’s a lovely scene where the bride questions whether the “escort” should be included in a wedding photo. Heavens, it’s not as if she was only wearing a g-string. That’s the same episode where we discover he has presidential ambitions
I'm catching up on Series 3 of Versailles, loosely based on the reign of Louis XIV. In this series the king's cross-dressing brother, Monsieur, has broken up with his long-term (but not exclusive) naughty boyfriend the Chevalier, who in one episode performs oral sex on a woman. This seems improbable given the standards of hygiene of the day - Versailles stank. In the episode I watched last night a serving woman bared her buttocks to a visiting cardinal, inviting sex. He turned her down, claiming no interest in the carnal desires. Given that in an earlier scene he was shown attended by half-a-dozen pages, I'm surprised he didn't call for one of them. Overall, however, I can see why there won't be a Series 4 - it's too loosely based on history, and few of the characters engage the viewer
Unfortunately the Versailles series ended before the documented historical event where the naughty Chevalier seduces an illegitimate son of Louis XIV. The actor who plays the Dauphin is a rather plain boy, not a patch on the actor who plays the Tsarevitch in Catherine the Great. I had a couple of Thai university students staying over while I was watching Versailles; they were very interested in what I was watching and what happened next. They became rather thoughtful when I explained
Brad the Impala (August 17th, 2019)
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