TV and Movies

[kittykatkay]

New series (8 parts) premieres Sunday, 19 March at 10 PM, EST. (right after Sandition). 

Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France.  At Versailles, under the complex rules of the French court, she suffers from not being able to live her life the way she wants, under the pressure to continue the Bourbon line and secure the Franco-Austrian alliance.

Preview:

https://youtu.be/5Ai9qyOnHcA

[LizzieInSRQ]

@kittykatkay THANK YOU for the heads up on this!

[deepwaterdotter]

I look forward to checking this out.

[kittykatkay]

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@LizzieInSRQ wrote:

@kittykatkay THANK YOU for the heads up on this!

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@LizzieInSRQ , you are so welcome and thanks for your reply.  I hope we like it.  Let us know what you think.  

[kittykatkay]

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@deepwaterdotter wrote:

I look forward to checking this out.

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@deepwaterdotter , me too.  Thanks for your reply.  I hope we like it.  These series on PBS are too few and too far in between, so it's nice to see something new.  Downton Abbey has spoiled me for a lifetime, lol.  Let us know what you think.

[JCath]

I subscribe to Passport which streams PBS shows.  I watched the preview for this program and will not watch any more of it.  Marie Antoinette is shown in a "romantic" relationship with another woman Nothing is left to your imagination  This seems to be a popular trend on many shows which feature nudity and explicit sexual situations.  Not the PBS wholesome shows I'm used to.

[4kitties]

@kittykatkay 

Thanks for the heads up on this.  I was not aware of this series and it sounds like something I would enjoy. 

I will be watching!

[4kitties]

@JCath 

Thank you for the warning.  Sounds like I will not be watching........😩😩😩

[SharkE]

yeah, been my gripe for a long time about historical figures.

If you was misfortunate enough to watch a Henry VIII

remake (not on PBS they had the best 1 from yrs ago)

on TV. It was just plain nasty.

They must think to get people to watch historical figures they have to sex it up and show explicit scenes of just about everything the mind can conjure.

Not true in my case, I just want  movies based on FACT not some perverts idea of how people lived.

[1Snickers]

THANK YOU!  I just set the recorder! 
  I toured Versailles, and tried to imagine it furnished and as it was in Marie's time. 
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