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While the costuming and set design are fairly believable, and the acting pretty good, the first episode is just kind of boring. There's a definite lack of music and a lot of time wasted not developing the storyline or characters.

Why in the world would anyone mess with this classic story, told and retold a million times over till the details are chiseled into great books and across the heart of every literature buff? Why subject everything to the newly-established YOLO mentality? This film is a disgrace to the classical literature it's meant to represent. The only quasi-authentic thing in the film is King Priam's mustache. The rest of it can all go.

It is often said that you have to get your audience by the scruff of the neck in the first 15 minutes of the first episode of a new series. Audiences are willing to give a new show a try.

Troy sends you into a coma in the first 15 minutes. They will not return for episode 2. It is a dud.

Troy: Fall of a City wants to be the BBC version of Games of Thrones. It does titillate you with some nudity and I think they have promised some violence. However they will need to wake up the audience first.

We follow our hero Paris (Louis Hunter) a young herdsman who encounters the gods as he finds out that he is the long lost son of King Priam. He embarks on a journey where he visits Sparta, gets enchanted with Helen of Troy (Bella Dayne) and her husband King Menelaus, who mentions a strategic marriage to one of his daughter's. Paris who here is a little rough around the edges sleeps with Helen.

This will not end well. Both for the people of Troy and the BBC. Another seven episodes to go.

Story and writing are decent, acting is good. Kept close to the source material without the mysticism, but done daily well. I was more than overjoyed watching it.

The writing is rather lousy for a Troy cinema, which has already been done more than a few times. The action is non-existent, which is pretty funny considering the entire series is based around a war. Any time a big fight would happen it lasts for about 3 seconds, and fades to black. Most of the actors come off either too childish, or too hollow. There is a little bit of blackwashing the characters, but that is common for the BBC to do that in the last decade. At a point they released a documentary saying Roman's were black Ethiopians too. In this case I am really just criticizing the director doubling down on backlash from it. Funny enough they seem to be the only ones capable of acting with any degree of skill.

HBO learned this from Rome when they did GOT that to have an epic like this you need good action scenes. This series has neither the action of GOT, or the amazing dialogue/story from Rome. I recommend watching Troy 2004 if you want the tale with good action, or Helen of Troy 2003 if you want a better story.

Best not waste your time with this.

To propose a series about fate of Troy is a good idea. But, in this case, it seems be only a good idea. The first problem is the hurry and too simplistic solutions to serve a great subject. Second, obvious, the acting. Costumes, as many other small details, are a good thing and the first scene of Helen is just seductive , first, for fair refference to the jewels discovered by Schliemann but , after nice hope of the first scenes, you discover, behind the good apparences, an Iron age replacing the normal Bronze age. And the situations, like the dialogues, are just wooden or stone.

A brutal job , good intentioned , no doubts, but bad served by a lecture so supperficial of magnificient Iliad.