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'Troy: Fall of a City' - - ugh!

Posted by Billy Wonka (A) on April 22, 2018 at 13:31:05

BBC has destroyed the Iliad with a boring script, unlovable characters, and an inexcusable use of social engineering. Once you get past Bella Dayne's appealing cleavage you notice her bobbed nose which actually detracts over time. Louis Hunter (Paris) should have been gutted after the first episode for his complete lack of empathy. Now, we have a black Zeus and a black Achilles with his black male lover. Is this Homer? (David Gyasi, as Achilles, did put in one of the stronger performances.)

Besides Achilles, Joseph Mawles was a very intense and decent-minded Odysseus who seemed to be struggling to go along with the maddened crowd. The rest of the cast were middling but the liberties taken with the story/myth were a little strong. In this version, we see the gods involved and how they entice and stand back to let human nature take its course. We see Paris as a jerk and Helen becoming poisonous.

Like, a good trainwreck, once you get to episode three you feel obligated to see how this rendition plays out. Oddly, there are no real references to the passage of time. We could be looking at a year but not a decade. But, true to Homer, it ends in grand disaster and Helen is forced back to her homeland with a husband she cannot stomach.

2 wonks for trying and spending a lot of money
3 wanks for unlovable characters and a story perverted by PC

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