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Meanwhile in 1700s historical drama land
Aug. 18th, 2020 12:37 pmSo I started watching Turn: Washington's Spies on Netflix because Burn Gorman is in it, and have now marathoned two seasons (two more to go!). This show is visually gorgeous period-drama brain candy which can best be described as an EXTREMELY biased version of actual American history in which the rebels are Everything That's Good, and George Washington is basically Jesus. This show entertains and irritates me in approximately equal measure. This is really not AT ALL the best time for me mentally to deal with the show's particular brand of rah-rah patriotism.
On the other hand, they attempted to cast Burn Gorman as a smarmy, unlikable British bureaucrat but by late season two have accidentally turned him into a dashing, geeky romantic hero instead, which is turning out to be relevant to every last one of my interests. I had assumed that he was a very minor character because I've never actually seen anyone talking about this show and had just seen a couple of pictures of him in period costume. I wasn't expecting all of this ... everything.
I wrote up a brief, tongue-in-cheek account of my descent into Turn Hell on Tumblr (contains fairly extensive spoilers for the Burn Gorman part of the plot and not much else): https://laylainalaska.tumblr.com/post/626785721870663680/a-brief-history-of-my-relationship-with-turn
This show also has Aldis Hodge (from Leverage). Unfortunately he's stuck in one of the not so great storylines because every time this show tries to deal with the entire issue of slavery in the American colonies it ends up being headdeskingly tone-deaf and terrible.
But then some of the spy stuff is incredibly fun, with all the double-dealing and having to do terrible things to preserve your cover and so forth. (I really like spy stuff.)
I am not sure to what extent I'd recommend this show, exactly, but I am finding it very entertaining in a "very pretty and problematic and totally batshit and some storylines I just fast-forward through" kind of way.
On the other hand, they attempted to cast Burn Gorman as a smarmy, unlikable British bureaucrat but by late season two have accidentally turned him into a dashing, geeky romantic hero instead, which is turning out to be relevant to every last one of my interests. I had assumed that he was a very minor character because I've never actually seen anyone talking about this show and had just seen a couple of pictures of him in period costume. I wasn't expecting all of this ... everything.
I wrote up a brief, tongue-in-cheek account of my descent into Turn Hell on Tumblr (contains fairly extensive spoilers for the Burn Gorman part of the plot and not much else): https://laylainalaska.tumblr.com/post/626785721870663680/a-brief-history-of-my-relationship-with-turn
This show also has Aldis Hodge (from Leverage). Unfortunately he's stuck in one of the not so great storylines because every time this show tries to deal with the entire issue of slavery in the American colonies it ends up being headdeskingly tone-deaf and terrible.
But then some of the spy stuff is incredibly fun, with all the double-dealing and having to do terrible things to preserve your cover and so forth. (I really like spy stuff.)
I am not sure to what extent I'd recommend this show, exactly, but I am finding it very entertaining in a "very pretty and problematic and totally batshit and some storylines I just fast-forward through" kind of way.