Review of Chivalry

I laboured my way through all six episodes, waiting for some sparkle, some hint of life in this dead horse. It didn't come.

I suppose the story could have been interesting, and there were some good ideas, for instance we see Bobby the female director and lead in the story abuse her own power much in the way we are told Cameron does. Being a bully and unpleasant isn't just reserved for the males in the story! But this has the effect of making Bobby unlikeable, and its hard to care or follow a series if we can't root for at least one character.

Even worse than that was I just didn't get the story, what was the plot? Every glimpse of a story line melted, was this about Bobby struggling to get recognition in a male dominated work space? No! She appears to glide into work without much difficulty. Was this about Bobby struggle to make art? No again. Is this an improbable love story between two opposites, Bobby and Cameron? Ridiculously, the ending did kind of push this idea though fortunately swerved away from that silliness. I just wasn't sure.

I was not just underwhelmed by this, I was amazed that it could have been made.