Gunpowder BBC1

[Barbirollians]

I seldom agree with the Daily Mail but I am firmly in the gratuitous camp here in relation to the violence shown .

Not so much the deliberately shocking executions of the first scenes or the burning of the Spanish heretics but if you went on to watch episode 2 there is a torture scene that appeared to go on for an age . It was gratuitous and unnecessary - the point had been effectively made as to the barbarity and brutality of Stuart punishments and torture but by this stage they appeared to be revelling in it and seeking to distract from the rather tedious script .

[DracoM]

Got to sell it to the American market somehow.

[Barbirollians]

It is apparently very heavily indebted to Game of Thrones in style I read.

[DracoM]

.........erm, like I said.............!!

[MrGongGong]

I think most TV's have one of these, these days?
(Very handy for when you see chaps in shorts kicking a ball appearing on the screen as well )

[Stunsworth]

I enjoyed it - watched all episodes on iPlayer. I couldn’t see what all the fuss about the executions in episode one was about. It’s not real, it’s acting - and probably nowhere near as gory as what would have happened at the time (weren’t the men castrated between the hanging and the drawing).

As with Wolf Hall the lighting throughout was superb.

[Barbirollians]

Yes good aren't they - I pressed mine halfway through episode 2 .

Unlike Wolf Hall however the acting and script weren't superb except acting wise from David Bamber and Mark Gatiss .

[Serial_Apologist]

I think most TV's have one of these, these days?
(Very handy for when you see chaps in shorts kicking a ball appearing on the screen as well )

A marital aid for the aged?