Worst Costume Dramas Ever!
Welcome to my 1 star films. So bad and cringy they aren't even bad enough to be campy. Really, this is a list to avoid instead of wasting hours of your life. These all have shallow writing, poor acting. Many have dreadful, ill fitting costume designs made of polyester fabrics. Also plastic props, in one, a burnt parchment only melted because it was plastic.
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- CreatorChris Van DusenStarsNicola CoughlanClaudia JessieLuke NewtonThe eight close-knit siblings of the Bridgerton family look for love and happiness in London high society.Bad costumes, bad acting, inexcusably terrible writing. Did I mention bad costumes? Someone (who couldn't do fittings) decided to blend Regency and 1950's costuming. It probably saved money by using polyester and plastic but it reads as super tacky. It may have worked better if the costumes were actually sewn to fit the actors...and the actors had a better script. I could go on and on...but you'll know when you see.
- CreatorEmma FrostMatthew GrahamStarsLaura CarmichaelAaron CobhamCharlotte HopeSpanish princess Catherine of Aragon navigates the royal lineage of England with an eye on the throne.Actress cannot carry the role. She gets an A for effort (over acting). Show is repetitive, dull and predictable. The costuming is bizarre, not in a good way. The characters lack depth. Nobody is likable. In one scene they burn a letter but the prop was plasticised and dripped into the fire.
- StarsJodie ComerRebecca BensonJacob Collins-LevyBased on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name, the story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII.This failure of a sequel, sucks by comparison in every way. Bad acting, horrendous choices in actor replacement for all original the cast. Shallow, repetitive, unimaginative, disappointing. And visible hair extensions on both men and women...ugh.
- DirectorPhilip HaasStarsMark RylanceKristin Scott ThomasPatsy KensitIn the 1800s a naturalist marries into a family of British country gentry.Weird and monotonous. Full of pregnant pauses. The shame of it all.
- CreatorAdrian HodgesStarsLuke PasqualinoTom BurkeSantiago CabreraSet on the streets of 17th-century Paris, "The Musketeers" gives a contemporary take on the classic story about a group of highly trained soldiers and bodyguards assigned to protect King and country.Silly. Basically cosplay.
- StarsTuppence MiddletonSophie RundleAlexandra MoenDrama set within the fictional realms of Charles Dickens critically acclaimed novels, bringing together some of his most iconic characters as their lives intertwine in 19th century London.Oh god, please just stop singing! Cosplay with bad lyrics.
- DirectorCharles ShyerStarsHilary SwankSimon BakerJonathan PryceIn pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.Silly, shallow, slow.
- CreatorLaurie McCarthyStephanie SenguptaStarsAdelaide KaneMegan FollowsCelina SindenMary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.This is cosplay. Mean girls in prom dresses, writing ridiculous, acting worse.
- CreatorNeil JordanStarsJeremy IronsFrançois ArnaudHolliday GraingerIn the fifteenth century, Pope Alexander VI tries to control all power in Italy with the help of his several sons, through murder, intrigue, war, and marriage alliances.Pretty people pretending to act while wearing nice costumes. I blame the writers and directors for this error in judgement. It's so bad.
Watch the BBC version if you want a great story. - CreatorNicholas MeyerFrank SpotnitzStarsDaniel SharmanAlessandra MastronardiSynnove KarlsenA political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father, Giovanni, dies suddenly.Really Dustin? You couldn't have mustered some acting skill for old times sake? Or maybe you knew it was a crappy part? Ugh, this series has terrible, TERRIBLE acting and cringy writing. Costumes are not so good.
- CreatorRobert LevineJonathan E. SteinbergStarsJessica Parker KennedyToby StephensHannah NewFollows Captain Flint and his pirates twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel "Treasure Island."Dorky and misogynistic. Like cosplay but anti woman.
- StarsEve HewsonEva GreenHimesh PatelAdventure mystery set in the midst of New Zealand's 1860's gold rush period. It has all the stuff that makes a good drama: murder, love and revenge, as men and women travel the world making their fortunes.
- DirectorLasse HallströmJoe JohnstonStarsMackenzie FoyKeira KnightleyMorgan FreemanA young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.misogynistic and super bad.
- DirectorJoshua LoganStarsRichard HarrisVanessa RedgraveFranco NeroThe story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere. The plot of illegitimate Mordred to gain the throne and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threaten to topple Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights.Slow and dreadfully silly.
- CreatorMoira BuffiniAlison NewmanStarsLesley ManvilleKate FleetwoodHolli DempseyBrothel owner Margaret Wells struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.Costumes seem nice but it is a deeply misogynistic and poorly acted show. Every character is shallow. The whole story is their hatred of each other. No substance.
A poor copycat of the French series 'Maison Close', in which the women actually have substance and form bonds, although the subject is still the same business, brothels and crime. - StarsJamie DornanJeremy NorthamJoe DempsieThe 1680s bring a new King, Restoration, and more tyranny. In Massachusetts, a robber's son falls for an anti-monarchist. In England, a young lady falls for an outlaw.Ugh, unbearable as a sequel to remarkable series 'The Devil's Whore'.
- DirectorTom HarperStarsFelicity JonesEddie RedmayneHimesh PatelA balloon pilot and a scientist find themselves in a fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a gas balloon in the 1860s.So very mundane, CGI bad.
- CreatorJez ButterworthTom ButterworthJames RichardsonStarsDavid MorrisseyEleanor Worthington-CoxMackenzie CrookIn 43 AD, the Roman Army returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia.Ugh...stinks!
- StarsVahina GiocanteAleksey GuskovViktoriya IsakovaA sex icon becomes a spy during one of the most important wars of the 20th century.So sad, they shoulda made an effort for this awesome chick.
- StarsElliot KnightMarama CorlettElliot CowanA Persian prisoner sets out to find his dead brother with help from his misfit group.Oh dear...
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsNigel TerryHelen MirrenNicholas ClayMerlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.Bad...just bad....and dull...and bad.
- DirectorConstantin WernerStarsWinter Ave ZoliCsaba LucasLea MornarFantasy film based on the medieval legend of the visionary Queen Libuse (Winter Ave Zoli), founder of Prague. When Libuse marries farmer Premysl (Csaba Lucas), he threatens to destroy her new kingdom. New 2018 Director's Cut.Hot hippie dude and pretty wench don't make this worth watching.
- CreatorAlan BallStarsAnna PaquinStephen MoyerSam TrammellTelepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse encounters a strange new supernatural world when she meets the mysterious Bill Compton, a southern Louisiana gentleman and vampire.Dammit! I really like vampires and this is intolerable.
- StarsMaya HawkeKathryn NewtonDylan BakerDramatization of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the lives of the four March sisters during the American Civil War as they learn to navigate love, loss, and the trials of growing up.Bad costumes, saccharine dialogue...Uggs?
- CreatorFoz AllanDominic MinghellaStarsJonas ArmstrongGordon KennedySam TroughtonAfter 5 years of fighting in the crusades, Robin returns to England and leads a band of outlaws to outwit the Sheriff of Nottingham.Long winded...slow