Britannia (2018 -- Sky Atlantic) [** Spoilers **]

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Britannia (2018 -- Sky Atlantic) [** Spoilers **]

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Britannia is a drama set in 43AD as the Roman Imperial Army - determined and terrified in equal measure - returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia - a mysterious land ruled by warrior women and powerful druids who can channel the powerful forces of the underworld. Or so they say.

Starring David Morrissey

Sky Atlantic Drops Trailer & Images For Epic New Drama ‘Britannia’, Coming In 2018.

Set in 43AD, the drama follows the Roman army as they return to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia, a mysterious land led by warrior women and powerful Druids who claim to channel the powerful forces of the underworld. Like never before, the nine-part series tells the story of the emotional and physical power struggle between three tribes: the Druids, Celts and Romans, who battle for the heart of Britannia.

Written by multi-award-winning Jez Butterworth (‘Spectre’), the drama stars Mackenzie Crook (‘Pirates of the Caribbean’) as Veran, the leader of the Druids, Kelly Reilly (‘True Detective’) as fearless Celtic princess Kerra, David Morrissey (‘The Walking Dead’) as the head of the invading Roman army, Aulus, Nikolaj Lie Kaas (‘The Killing’) as rogue Druid Divis, and Zoë Wanamaker (‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’) as Celtic Queen Antedia.

JP Liz V1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO96wgLiy5E

Sky Atlantic’s epic brand new drama Britannia will arrive in January the broadcaster has announced. Not only that, all episodes will be available from Thursday, 18th January 2018 on demand.

Loafing Oaf

Anyone know whether it'll be there first thing in the morning or when?

Unearthly

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Anyone know whether it'll be there first thing in the morning or when?

It's available now

Not expecting much. Sky are usually rubbish but I'll give it a go

Loafing Oaf

Unearthly wrote: »

It's available now

Not expecting much. Sky are usually rubbish but I'll give it a go

Yep, I'm downloading episode 1 now

budhabob

Unearthly wrote: »

It's available now

Not expecting much. Sky are usually rubbish but I'll give it a go

The trailers don't look all that wonderful, so not expecting all that much myself. Will watch for feedback on the thread to see what the general consensus is.

alchemist33

Will watch it, but fear it'll be as poor as some of Sky's other own offerings (e.g. Riviera). So I will pull the plug if it isn't doing the business.

gmisk

alchemist33 wrote: »

Will watch it, but fear it'll be as poor as some of Sky's other own offerings (e.g. Riviera). So I will pull the plug if it isn't doing the business.

I think this looks worth a try, RE Riviera even Neil Jordan disowned it
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/considerably-upset-neil-jordan-disowns-riviera-tv-drama-1.3133925

Agent Smith

hopefully it's better then Jamestown....

siblers

Tin Star and Fortitude were also disapointing. Fortitude was good but with the cast it had, the setting etc. it should have been much better.

I'll watch the first episode of Britania but I'm not expecting much

alchemist33

Agent Smith wrote: »

hopefully it's better then Jamestown....

That's the other one I was thinking of. I gave up half way through.

TerrorFirmer

Jamestown was OK but it was a lot more soapy than it should've been....I think once you get around that, it starts being entertaining enough. I feel the same about Britannia, but at least this time I'll be going in with far more tailored expectations.

Unearthly

Watched the first episode and I'm done. Terrible stuff. Shaky blurry cam, hammy acting, weird voodoo nonsense. No idea what they were thinking

Son0vagun

We Enjoyed Jamestown.

Britannia is terrible. Knew it was gonna be when they used Hurdy Gurdy Man as their opening Theme. It’s like every part is miscasted, the acting is shocking.

Dial Hard

Yeah, it was very poor. Awful opening credits that feel like they belong to a different series altogether. Questionable casting choices, terrible acting (which, in fairness, was probably due in large part to the dismal writing). And the whole thing looked like it was shot through a particularly brash Instagram filter. I have no idea why they felt the need to saturate the colour palette to that extent.

Can't see myself bothering with another episode.

Special mention to Kerry Reilly's wig, though. Practically deserves a credit of its own.

Galwayguy35

I really liked Jamestown, looking forward to season 2.

This on the other hand was piss poor, I'll watch the second episode to see if it improves.

beardo81

Like Tin Star, really well shot and looks the part but it's all over the place. Acting isn't the worst but that horrible bokeh blur that's in every other shot is really annoying.

I'll give it another episode or 2 purely because Kelly Reilly is absolutely stunning and Sky costs a bloody fortune, have to get some value from it!

Oh and Kelly Reilly is gorgeous. Did I mention that yet?

Asus X540L

beardo81 wrote: »

Like Tin Star, really well shot and looks the part but it's all over the place. Acting isn't the worst but that horrible bokeh blur that's in every other shot is really annoying.

I'll give it another episode or 2 purely because Kelly Reilly is absolutely stunning and Sky costs a bloody fortune, have to get some value from it!

Oh and Kelly Reilly is gorgeous. Did I mention that yet?

Thought she was great in the underrated True Detective season 2.

Don't know why everyone hated that? It was very enjoyable. Kelly, Vince Vaughan, and Colon Farrell were great in it.

I guess it was so different from season 1.

Cina

Asus X540L wrote: »

Thought she was great in the underrated True Detective season 2.

Don't know why everyone hated that? It was very enjoyable. Kelly, Vince Vaughan, and Colon Farrell were great in it.

I guess it was so different from season 1.

No it was definitely awful.

"Never do anything out of Hunger, not even eating"

beardo81

Asus X540L wrote: »

Thought she was great in the underrated True Detective season 2.

Don't know why everyone hated that? It was very enjoyable. Kelly, Vince Vaughan, and Colon Farrell were great in it.

I guess it was so different from season 1.

I thought it wasn't the worst in hindsight, season 1 was just so good it was compared directly and suffered for it. Compared to Tin Star it was a masterpiece!!
Kelly Reilly just plays the smoky eyed seductress so well that it's captivating...

alchemist33

I found the Romans speaking like they were the home fans at a West Ham match totally jarring. The opening credits and music were also totally bizarre. And the mad druid guy with the girl seems like a very obvious ploy to capture the Hound/Arya dynamic from Game of Thrones.

But David Morrisey was very good and I think it could actually have been worse. Faint praise, I know, but enough to give the second episode a go.

Unearthly

alchemist33 wrote: »

I found the Romans speaking like they were the home fans at a West Ham match totally jarring. The opening credits and music were also totally bizarre. And the mad druid guy with the girl seems like a very obvious ploy to capture the Hound/Arya dynamic from Game of Thrones.

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Fully agreed there. It reminded me of a film I watched based in Germany for world war 2 and the Germans sounded like the cast of Eastenders

Loafing Oaf

alchemist33 wrote: »

I found the Romans speaking like they were the home fans at a West Ham match totally jarring.

I remember someone on a BBC arts programme using this exact comparison for the trolls in The Hobbit.:p

Greyfox

Asus X540L wrote: »

Don't know why everyone hated that? It was very enjoyable. Kelly, Vince Vaughan, and Colon Farrell were great in it.
I guess it was so different from season 1.

Season 2 was terrible with probably the worst writing ever and possibly the worst season finale ever.
Watched the 1st 2 episodes of Brittania now, at least there's a fair bit of violence and the conflict between the 2 British tribes is ok and I don't mind the historic inaccuracies, I was never expecting that much so will give it another few episodes

Agent Coulson

Damm that is hard to watch.

Downloaded them all onto the Sky box but struggled to finish the first two terrible acting terrible use of language this is all coming from Jez Butterworth who is a really good playwright who has written one of the best plays on the West End at the moment with The Ferryman.

BoroMan32

Tried to get through a few episodes; very hard going.......

Even taking a light-hearted approach to viewing doesn't help; it's just woeful in every aspect.

EPAndlee

I struggled to watch a few episodes. The music does not find the show and they just throw in a random swear word every so often. I just gave up on even attempting to finish the series

TerrorFirmer

Has anyone watched all of it - how does it end? Tied up OK or hanging off a cliff for a S2 that'll likely now not happen?

Walter Bishop

Asus X540L wrote: »

Colon Farrell

:pac:

Loafing Oaf

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Has anyone watched all of it - how does it end?

Please use spoiler tag if fulfilling this request.

ricero

Halfway through the series and its decent so far nothing new or special

TerrorFirmer

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Please use spoiler tag if fulfilling this request.

I didn't literally mean how does the plot end....I was asking if it ended in a way that would allow it to work as a mini series.

Agricola

Bilge. TY students do Game of Thrones.

corkie

Only worthy quote from the show: -

Hope is a small daughter, of a blind father!

Finished the series, it had it's moments, but felt like it didn't go anywhere.

Loafing Oaf

Warming to it but it teeters on the brink of absurdity all the time. That

Jedi mind trick scene

at the beginning of the third episode was just:rolleyes:

Hilly Bill

Just watching the first episode and it's alright, then again any programme that has Welsh spoken in it is OK with me.. It's another on my watch list.

Asus X540L

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Warming to it but it teeters on the brink of absurdity all the time. That

Jedi mind trick scene

at the beginning of the third episode was just:rolleyes:

Check out the St. Patrick movie with Patrick Bergin.

Bergin uses a jedi mind trick to murder pagans cause they won't convert to christianity lmao.

Full movie on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndUfgHopiPI

Galwayguy35

Thought episode 2 was a bit of an improvement, won't give up on it just yet

hullaballoo

I was totally unable to comprehend what I was watching for all of episode 1 and agree it seemed totally mis-cast, especially Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Watched the rest of it due to lack of options more than anything and found myself enjoying it for what it was. It's almost criminally historically inaccurate in relation to the Celts but the Romans are bang on and actually based on historical figures. One word to sum up the whole production (Donovan's drug-fuelled mania included) would be incongruous.

I doubt it'll get a second season and I will be able to live quite happily without it.

TerrorFirmer

Watched the first episode and while it's not as terrible as I expected, it's a bit all over the place and pretty muddled.

Jerichoholic

I'm 4 episodes in now, I think it's absolutely great! Episode 2 explains everything you may have been confused by in the first episode. After that it's just twists and turns everywhere. I have no idea where it goes or how it ends, but I'm glad I gave it a go when I did.

memorystick

40 minutes in and am not impressed

Jerichoholic

Finished it in two days. It's great, stick with it.

donegal_man

Just watched the first two episodes back to back and won't be bothering with the rest. The sad thing that if they'd just made a historically accurate show about the political machinations around the Roman invasion it would have been fascinating. Instead they went with this weird mix of history, fantasy and plain ham.

Jerichoholic

Hey, it had some crucifixion in it, you won't see that on Fair City!

JP Liz V1

Renewed

corkie

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Renewed

You could have provided a link to sources, but never mind I used google.

https://www.spoilertv.com/2018/03/britannia-renewed-for-2nd-season-by-sky.html

Is it bad, that I drew a blank on the show, needing to scan through an episode to remember what it was about.

Galwayguy35

Bit surprised they killed off Kelly Reilly.

It was an ok series, passed an hour on the winter nights but it would need to improve a bit in series 2

JP Liz V1

Britannia 2nd season starts on Sky Atlantic on Thursday November 7th

Galwayguy35

Anyone still watching this?

It's not great so far but hopefully will improve a bit.

Jerichoholic

Back watching today and I can't remember who anyone is or what is going on. My memory is atrocious.