Reviews

I am getting fed up of the continual virtue signaling we are constantly fed on TV. This had all the ingredients of a good crime series but hang on we have to have every minority represented and we have to make the straight white guys incompetent or villains. When will these production companies open their eyes and realise that their audience is the majority of the population. The sound quality was awful and reminded me of the Jamaica Inn series we suffered a few years ago, also a decent scriptwriter wouldn't have gone amiss either. Overall a decent story ruined by a production company obsessed with ticking every box.

This just seems like the scriptwriter has read the premise of Dangerous Liaisons on the back of the book and created a series based purely from their own ideas of what the novel should be about, the period is the same as the novel and some of the characters are but others have been added for some reason. I also want accuracy for anything set historically and while servants and lower classes may be EM in the 18th century a Chevalier would definitely not be. If you want to watch an adaption of DL then watch the 1988 film. Even the Colin Firth film Valmont is a closer adaption and at least they changed the name so as not to confuse people. Unfortunately modern adaptions of classics are getting so bad they should just use the premise and set them in the modern day as modern writers and producers are unable to take themselves out of today's society. I am dreading the next adaption of a Jane Austen novel.

What can I say but utter garbage, are Netflix on a mission to destroy world renowned literature. This totally misses the whole point of the novel. Austen wrote about lost love being found again. I honestly believe whomever wrote the screenplay didn't read the book. If you are going to do a modern take of a classic then set it in modern times. Using 21st century speech and mannerisms and setting it in the regency is just stupid and it doesn't work unless you are aiming it at the brain addled Bridgerton followers. This obsession with multicultural cast just doesn't work in the time period. In fact I couldn't find anything that worked in this woke nonsense. Please, please, please just stop Netflix.