Reviewers asking questions about authenticity in this is a bizarre take, as its totally fictional. Although, the idea of serving up lobster claws anywhere inland during the plague while almost no one is traveling or trading is fairly vapid.
The characters of so many in this, but mainly of the wealthy and titled, are rife with: Insensitivity, cluelessness, abusiveness, chronic indifference to the suffering of others, while wallowing in self-pity, and responding inappropriately to sympathy, and the same with commonly friendly overtures. It's just another 'Everyone is Terrible and Pathetic' affair with a bunch of rejection piled on that doesn't pass for humor.
By midway, I realized I was looking at large doses of misogyny delivered by women, to women, on repeat. Who would want to flagellate themselves (shirtless, of course) by watching this insane pile of nastiness and idiotic double-standards?
Thoughtless insult humor, ad infinitum: 'You're just as good as another child to me, but poor, and less important.' Way to go, that's so ha-ha-ha, who could stop laughing?!
Women are: "stupid, calculating, unsympathetic," but how do their breasts feel?, asks the man who implies that 'THEY' are greedy while aiming to hoard his wealth entirely to himself. OOOH, are we chuckling now?!?!
And next, bring on the pointless ageism, relentless criticisms (lookism is also overused), rudeness, childish eye rolls, snorts, gross-out sexual comments, etc., etc., because being intolerant and intolerable and nasty is so, so enjoyable, at all times? Deliberate mocking and taking delight in emotional abuses isn't entertainment. It's not "cool" or "strong," it's dumb AF.
Clichéd sex jokes are also presented relentlessly. Har-dee-har-har, not. And, it goes on and on. Watched the whole season and found amusement maybe in five brief moments.
The pacing does drag here and there, mostly because it's less fun than it is dopey and annoying. Much of the acting is fair, sometimes bordering on good, but no one totally shines in this. The filming, costuming, scene dressing were OK. There was more than one strange editing chop in multiple scenes. Couldn't care less about the race and orientation stuff, although there's an large number of depictions of sex acts, which does feel like padding.
The characters of so many in this, but mainly of the wealthy and titled, are rife with: Insensitivity, cluelessness, abusiveness, chronic indifference to the suffering of others, while wallowing in self-pity, and responding inappropriately to sympathy, and the same with commonly friendly overtures. It's just another 'Everyone is Terrible and Pathetic' affair with a bunch of rejection piled on that doesn't pass for humor.
By midway, I realized I was looking at large doses of misogyny delivered by women, to women, on repeat. Who would want to flagellate themselves (shirtless, of course) by watching this insane pile of nastiness and idiotic double-standards?
Thoughtless insult humor, ad infinitum: 'You're just as good as another child to me, but poor, and less important.' Way to go, that's so ha-ha-ha, who could stop laughing?!
Women are: "stupid, calculating, unsympathetic," but how do their breasts feel?, asks the man who implies that 'THEY' are greedy while aiming to hoard his wealth entirely to himself. OOOH, are we chuckling now?!?!
And next, bring on the pointless ageism, relentless criticisms (lookism is also overused), rudeness, childish eye rolls, snorts, gross-out sexual comments, etc., etc., because being intolerant and intolerable and nasty is so, so enjoyable, at all times? Deliberate mocking and taking delight in emotional abuses isn't entertainment. It's not "cool" or "strong," it's dumb AF.
Clichéd sex jokes are also presented relentlessly. Har-dee-har-har, not. And, it goes on and on. Watched the whole season and found amusement maybe in five brief moments.
The pacing does drag here and there, mostly because it's less fun than it is dopey and annoying. Much of the acting is fair, sometimes bordering on good, but no one totally shines in this. The filming, costuming, scene dressing were OK. There was more than one strange editing chop in multiple scenes. Couldn't care less about the race and orientation stuff, although there's an large number of depictions of sex acts, which does feel like padding.
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