The
snow outside my apartment and the below-freezing temperatures will laugh at
this, but we are now technically out of winter.
That’s right: it’s Capaldi
Spring. Not that we’ll make it through
another season. This is one of the last
PC projects I have access to, so new that it’s still airing in the U.K. The
season’s almost finished, though, and I have a decent head start, so I should almost be able to make it to the end
without any breaks.
This
show is of course exactly what you expect, D’Artagnan and his all-for-one
pals. I’ve not read The Three Musketeers, so I don’t know if the series follows the
novel or if it just puts the characters in new plots. Seems like it’ll be fairly serialized;
several wheels are clearly set in motion in the pilot. Additionally, all the characters are
introduced, and D’Artagnan, earnest and newly fatherless, is brought into the
musketeers’ sphere through a case of mistaken identity.
PC is a
regular in this series, playing the shady Cardinal Richelieu. Despite his position, Richelieu is quite fond
of his vices. He’s dangerously
possessive of his preferred mistress, and he has very few scruples when it comes
to retaining the ear of the king.
So far,
he seems like a black-hat-wearing baddie through and through. He also has a talent for self-justification
and is impervious to any disparaging remarks made by those appalled at his actions. Nothing especially complex yet, but it’s
early days. While I don’t imagine
anything revelatory, it may prove to be a pretty enjoyable role.
D’Artagnan
is played by Luke Pasqualino, who was Freddie on Skins. On the musketeer
side, we have Santiago Cabrera (Isaac, the painter/prophet from Heroes) and Tom Burke, who I remember best
as the lad who did all the transcriptions in State of Play. This episode
also features David Verrey from the unfortunate Slitheen two-parter on the first
series of Who.
First
impressions:
Accent Watch
A
decent RP.
Recommend?
In
General
– Possibly. It strikes me so far as mindlessly
enjoyable entertainment – not great television, but amusing enough.
PC-wise – Maybe. He obviously has a prominent role. We’ll see how Richelieu is used in the coming
episodes.
Warnings
Sexual
content (including references to prostitution,) drinking, and lots of 17th-century
violence, mostly swordfights.
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