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After The Last Kingdom I was really looking forward to this and it really suffers in comparison. It’s hard to make action/adventure slow and murky and hard to follow but here we are. As someone said, it seems like they lifted the names of characters from legend and the books, and that’s about it. Arthur has no skill or regard for the hearts and minds aspect of being a leader and three episodes in there’s nothing to like about him. He’s a corporate CEO who has no compassion and little to no persuasive ability, and makes no effort to explain himself to anybody (except to the warlord who just slaughtered the majority of his people literally hours ago). This is supposed to come across as edgy and brilliant but it comes across as reptilian and pitiless. It’s not just him, there’s not much complexity or depth to any of the characters as they are being potrayed, they’re one dimensional. I find myself seriously disliking and not feeling any sympathy for Nimue despite what she’s been through. I’m even more disappointed in the showrunners’ sloppy and careless effort at period representation, they just phoned it in and it shows. Corn on the cob did not come to the old world until 1500, why are they eating bread with no meat, metal was precious in the dark ages and would not be used to make water carrying cans, all liquid was stored in barrels, etc. This is Xena level bad, without the camp. I’ll probably give it one more epi and then go do a Vikings rewatch.