Britannia - 3 series - now showing of Sky SciFi

[IwantToRetire]

Have looked for a thread on this but cant find one.

Series 1 was released in 2018(?). I watched some of it then and was more interested in the sets, costumes, etc., and didn't really focus to much on the script and so on.

But on re-watching I am struck by how crude the language is. Its like a throw back to quite a few decades ago when some thought it really cutting edge to have every other word a swear word or crude sexual reference in TV series.

Compared say to Shogun (also looking at a country's earlier era) it just seems to have been written by silly schoolboys.

Also, given the music used and some of the "mythical" early history references, seems like the product of an old hippy who is either still on or has never recoved from a bad acid trip.

Its quite a cast list so they must have thought it worth appearing in.

David Morrissey, Hugo Speer, Sophie Okonedo, Zoë Wanamaker and many others. (I'm bad on names and faces).

Just wondered if anyone watched it at the time. (I'm just starting series 2 and wonder whether to continue.)

https://www.sky.com/watch/title/programme/britannia/britannia/episodes/season-1/episode-1

I enjoyed it. It is a bit daft. I can't remember the language being that bad, but I'll take your word for it, probably due to brutal and unsophisticated times? I liked how they used music from the 60s, a trippy time, and linked it with the trippy Britons and their druids.

Series 4 wasn't picked up, or was cancelled, so annoyingly series 3 ends on a cliff hanger and the main character (Cait?) never fulfills all the prophecies about her.

Thanks - will persevere!

Maybe its just me getting old.

When I first watched I did treat it more as an almost dream like story telling.

Now I find the language a bit grating.

Quite happy for invading Romans to come over brutish and harsh.

But when everyone is effing and blinding its sort of tedious.

But yes, I think the choice of music is meant to promote the idea early Brits were out of their mind on alcohol or substances.

NB Warning!

In case this thread means some are now interested in watchingthis series, be aware there are some quite graphic scenes of violence. No holding back on images of physical harm.