The show aims to be historically accurate so names of companies, mythology, places are all real. You can see or hear something in the show and look it up and learn more about the real entity at the time. I like that, wish there was more of that incorporated.
Acting is great. Actually more than great, rather excellent in fact. Total joy to watch, dialogue is very well scripted, delivery is smooth, characters sound and act unique enough yet not out of place. Events taking place are realistically portrayed and completely plausible.
There is some supernatural overtones in there but it seems to be mostly just to create some mystery to lure you in; so far it has had no actual impact on anything and i do not expect it will ever. Even that weird mute girl turns out to be rather conventional once the Cross arc comes into reveal.
Unfortunately i have to mention that this show is one massive feminist propaganda piece which is anything but historical. It has some very cringe moments there in both trying to give women power through their worst qualities and trying to vilify men for the most weird of weird things. No, there is no man on earth who will not bed/have a life with a great looking woman because she has a knife scar on her body. Yet this is made to be some sort of complete taboo. Perhaps the writers forgot that between lack of baths and work related injuries starting with childhood years (yes kids worked back then) it is virtually impossible to not have scars by the time you reach adulthood and nobody in the colonies was ever really clean for long anyway. Yet they make it like its some thing that no man in all of france (their words) and now the new world will have you as a woman because of it. Alright.
Moving on to more absurdity, i find it very hard to buy that a woman will not cook or clean or do any household chores and the man will just kick in and start chopping asparagus on screen after being ordered to cook something. Even if said woman is pretending to be from a fancy family, it makes no sense. I understand her entire character is a gold digging manipulative entitled person, but still, the way it was force was just.. unbelievable. Everything on that topic is just forced into some alternate reality that even in 2022 will make you go HUH???.. and people today are far more spoiled than people back then. If you remember BLACK FLAG, that show had some truly well done representation of how women got their way and ran things in that time period. And at the end, they pretty much ran half the show, while here, these are just edgy for the sake of being so but having no impact on the storyline itself. And that is just insulting to everybody.
Or let's talk about how they made a whole scene about how another peasant lady (these were poor girls with no prospects in france in life who went to the new world for that reason, they are literal peasants, often homeless even) who was crying her heart out how she was so unhappy that her husband she picked only had a very normal looking stone cabin in the woods, a well outside it for water (so you dont have to run to the creep for water), and her kids all had a full set of clothes (something they would not have had, not in the summer time at least, if we are to be historical here). She was so dejected by that she hated him... I mean honestly?! What the actual scrtipwriting here.
It gets better. We also have abortion rights thrown in there. "you can choose your life or your husbands wishes" fast forward to an instant abortion scene an hour after some magic plants were ingested. Why is any of this there? It's like 2 shows being collided. It's annoying, it is just irrational. There are literally feminism movies that are most realistic than this show which is supposed to be based on history. Yet they toss it all out to push forth some agenda topic line on the viewer. And there is a lot more than that, but these are the highlights of absurdity so far.
That said, it is still good. I cannot knock it for it because i watched everything and wanted more. The show just keeps you going because the backstories keep you drawn in. You want to know about cross, you want to see what will happen with cooke, his apprentice, bouchard, that nun woman... the two indian tribes... that weird bill character. All of those things you want to know about and the show pushes all of those lines non stop. There is always something happening with at least one of them and in a well done manner.
And between the storylines and the acting, you just keep watching. At the end of the day, this is what a good show is about. Engaging the viewer and making people crave more. And as you can see, if you get these things right, you can have all the absurdity in between and it will still not ruin your show.
Acting is great. Actually more than great, rather excellent in fact. Total joy to watch, dialogue is very well scripted, delivery is smooth, characters sound and act unique enough yet not out of place. Events taking place are realistically portrayed and completely plausible.
There is some supernatural overtones in there but it seems to be mostly just to create some mystery to lure you in; so far it has had no actual impact on anything and i do not expect it will ever. Even that weird mute girl turns out to be rather conventional once the Cross arc comes into reveal.
Unfortunately i have to mention that this show is one massive feminist propaganda piece which is anything but historical. It has some very cringe moments there in both trying to give women power through their worst qualities and trying to vilify men for the most weird of weird things. No, there is no man on earth who will not bed/have a life with a great looking woman because she has a knife scar on her body. Yet this is made to be some sort of complete taboo. Perhaps the writers forgot that between lack of baths and work related injuries starting with childhood years (yes kids worked back then) it is virtually impossible to not have scars by the time you reach adulthood and nobody in the colonies was ever really clean for long anyway. Yet they make it like its some thing that no man in all of france (their words) and now the new world will have you as a woman because of it. Alright.
Moving on to more absurdity, i find it very hard to buy that a woman will not cook or clean or do any household chores and the man will just kick in and start chopping asparagus on screen after being ordered to cook something. Even if said woman is pretending to be from a fancy family, it makes no sense. I understand her entire character is a gold digging manipulative entitled person, but still, the way it was force was just.. unbelievable. Everything on that topic is just forced into some alternate reality that even in 2022 will make you go HUH???.. and people today are far more spoiled than people back then. If you remember BLACK FLAG, that show had some truly well done representation of how women got their way and ran things in that time period. And at the end, they pretty much ran half the show, while here, these are just edgy for the sake of being so but having no impact on the storyline itself. And that is just insulting to everybody.
Or let's talk about how they made a whole scene about how another peasant lady (these were poor girls with no prospects in france in life who went to the new world for that reason, they are literal peasants, often homeless even) who was crying her heart out how she was so unhappy that her husband she picked only had a very normal looking stone cabin in the woods, a well outside it for water (so you dont have to run to the creep for water), and her kids all had a full set of clothes (something they would not have had, not in the summer time at least, if we are to be historical here). She was so dejected by that she hated him... I mean honestly?! What the actual scrtipwriting here.
It gets better. We also have abortion rights thrown in there. "you can choose your life or your husbands wishes" fast forward to an instant abortion scene an hour after some magic plants were ingested. Why is any of this there? It's like 2 shows being collided. It's annoying, it is just irrational. There are literally feminism movies that are most realistic than this show which is supposed to be based on history. Yet they toss it all out to push forth some agenda topic line on the viewer. And there is a lot more than that, but these are the highlights of absurdity so far.
That said, it is still good. I cannot knock it for it because i watched everything and wanted more. The show just keeps you going because the backstories keep you drawn in. You want to know about cross, you want to see what will happen with cooke, his apprentice, bouchard, that nun woman... the two indian tribes... that weird bill character. All of those things you want to know about and the show pushes all of those lines non stop. There is always something happening with at least one of them and in a well done manner.
And between the storylines and the acting, you just keep watching. At the end of the day, this is what a good show is about. Engaging the viewer and making people crave more. And as you can see, if you get these things right, you can have all the absurdity in between and it will still not ruin your show.