Are they costume dramas, or are they lack-of-costumes dramas? You decide.

[amanuensis1]

Game of Thrones is the series on everyone's lips/blogs/etc., and I'm loving it, but I'm also loving Camelot on Starz. I adore what they're doing in twisting the legend about. Parentage, the love triangle, the sword in the stone...their take on Excalibur and the Lady of the Lake in last week's episode had my jaw in my lap and my heart wrung in an invisible fist. Anyone else enjoying this and want to babble?

I know that all cable series have to be full of nudity and copulation to prove themselves these days, but I don't need that, honest. I just need a good story told well. I do like drama, though, and does it feel like nudity = drama to you, in all these bosom/bottom/boinking series that are showing up all over late-prime-time premium cable? Maybe that's it. (Mind you, Eva Green's breasts are never going to be superfluous. In any universe.)

In other b/b/b cable series, I've given up on The Borgias after 4 eps. It's not bad, it's just not as interesting to me as the other things I'm watching now, and my time is limited. Sorry, Jeremy Irons, it wasn't your fault.

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[ariadneelda.livejournal.com]

So I just watched the latest episode, "Justice", and what do you know, I actually loved this one! Perhaps Camelot is one of those shows that take me half a season to warm up to. :)

And Arthur, since you mentioned him, I liked him at first, found him rather annoying in ep 4 with his Guinevere!angst, and loved him in ep 5. :) For the first time I could really see the king he's supposed to become!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Yes, when he's not angsting over Guinevere I like Arthur quite a lot! (One more episode on my DVR to watch now, yay!)