My title sums up what I think of this useless show. There is a naff, pantomime feel to everything about it. The acting. The script. The whole feel of it. I kept expecting a character to shout, "He's behind you!" at any given moment.
The Musketeers suffers from similar problems to Atlantis. In both cases, the BBC seems to have made the shows dull, predictable and sanitised. As a result, they're both just so... boring. There's never any sense of threat. I think the BBC is currently making TV with some sort of mad check list. It has to have A and B to appeal to this audience group. Oh but it can't possibly have C as that's too edgy and might not appeal to the widest demographic.
The problem with trying to make TV that pleases everybody is that it's just generally rubbish and pleases nobody. In the past they made wonderful shows. One of the actors from this garbage even starred in one of them: The Thick of it. A fantastically written show with some of the sharpest dialogue I've ever enjoyed. It's hard to believe the same organisation is now producing such drivel. It's also sad.
I barely bother to check what's on BBC anymore. The only decent show made by them in recent years is Sherlock, and even that's sliding into naffness. There are so many great American shows right now that blow the BBC out of the water. The BBC desperately needs to take a leaf out of their books and produce something that's actually good and adult and uncompromising. I'm sick of being patronised and fed slush by the BBC.
The Musketeers suffers from similar problems to Atlantis. In both cases, the BBC seems to have made the shows dull, predictable and sanitised. As a result, they're both just so... boring. There's never any sense of threat. I think the BBC is currently making TV with some sort of mad check list. It has to have A and B to appeal to this audience group. Oh but it can't possibly have C as that's too edgy and might not appeal to the widest demographic.
The problem with trying to make TV that pleases everybody is that it's just generally rubbish and pleases nobody. In the past they made wonderful shows. One of the actors from this garbage even starred in one of them: The Thick of it. A fantastically written show with some of the sharpest dialogue I've ever enjoyed. It's hard to believe the same organisation is now producing such drivel. It's also sad.
I barely bother to check what's on BBC anymore. The only decent show made by them in recent years is Sherlock, and even that's sliding into naffness. There are so many great American shows right now that blow the BBC out of the water. The BBC desperately needs to take a leaf out of their books and produce something that's actually good and adult and uncompromising. I'm sick of being patronised and fed slush by the BBC.
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