Look, I do try.
Jan has this notion that I dislike costume drama, but she's wrong.
I dislike boring or uninteresting costume drama.
A series I love is the Borgias (on Sky Atlantic) and you don't get more costume or drama than that. It's very, very good and holds my attention throughout the whole hour.
The costumes, the intrigue, the history lesson (it puts the Borgias, Machiavellis, Sforzas etc into historical significance) and cinematography are all excellent. The actors are good and, for good measure, there's a decent amount of fairly explicit rumpy pumpy. Excellent.
Some of the same adjectives can be used for Downton Abbey but with the fairly important added proviso that it's bloody boring.
I sat through an hour and a half of this guff, trying so hard for my beloved, to show her that I'm not backward, want to share her enjoyment, and to get into her cultural frame of mind, but it was frankly downright boring.
Don't worry if you missed it, I'll sum up the plot for you, man's at war, man comes home from war and has faint dalliance with woman (not even a snog) and then goes back to war. There's a very mild sub-plot and that's it.
I sat through the whole 90 minutes (well almost). It took them 90 bloody minutes to tell that story.
I have found a single fifteen second micturition more fun.
At most this is a 30 minute series and they could show cartoons for the other hour.
Look I know that some people will think that I'm a moron but maybe, just maybe, I'm right.
If Downton Abbey turns you on then I'd suggest that knitting would be a better use of your time and at least you'd get a bloody jumper at the end of it!
PS. Admit it, you had to look it up?
Yes I had to look it up. 15 seconds is a long time maybe you need to drink less!
ReplyDeleteI'd never heard of the M word either...
ReplyDeleteI just got back from my Mum's and she asked if we'd watched DA last night. We didn't as we don't fancy it and didn't watch series 1. Mum's opinion was "I just didn't get it - it was so slow". So there you have it. My Mum and you - two peas in a pod.
Meant to say that our favourite costume drama was The Tudors. We loved that.
ReplyDeleteI did stop and think when I wrote it Kathy and had a guess. It could well be less than 15 seconds so for the sake of historical accuracy I'll time it next time.
ReplyDeleteSee Craig, me and your mum, we know it all. We missed the Tudors, not sure why, but we'll catch it next time.
You might like Spartacus then - The Husband found it fascinating- I did not and rarely watched it. What I did see of it was that it was full of 'gladiatorial violence', intrigue and yes, graphic rumpy pumpy and bare-bosomed women. A costume drama indeed but not quite my thing.
ReplyDeleteBut do I enjoy watching Downton Abbey.
Spartacus - I'll look out for that. Thanks.
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