Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9741745" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Yeah I'd ignored it on those grounds and casting Norton as a lead (also I mistakenly assumed he was playing William, glad to see he isn't) who chewed the scenery so ferociously in the later seasons of Happy Valley that for my money he completely annihilated any suspension of disbelief I could manage (he was pretty okay in the first one). I can give it an episode though and see if it works for me. Shows set in this era always seems to be a little hit and miss for me, like I enjoyed the obviously rather silly Vikings whilst Ragnar was around (less so afterwards) but despite sticking with it for over a season, just couldn't stand The Last Kingdom. With The Last Kingdom it was in large part because the main character was a bad-natured narcissistic scumbag who we were meant to root for, not pray for the horrible death of, and usually you get past that by casting someone charismatic (like say, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau!), but they cast someone who played him as charmless smirking jerk who just emphasized how awful this guy was - I don't think I've ever thought "please die please die please die" about a protagonist so much before lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>