Friday Chamberlain

A lot of gratuitously dubbed fight scenes in bizarrely shot and weirdly CGI looking sets, not to mention very odd product placement from Ford (almost like they ran out of money and shopped it out as an afterthought?) Priyanka and Richard have done so many great projects I was surprised to be this disappointed.

Terrible, the dialogue is stilted, the characters are stiff and the story is the same dead horse everyone’s been beating since the dawn of time. Age of innocence, House of Mirth, Titanic, Peaky Blinders… the old guard versus the upstarts. If you’re interested in this type of story I would be much more inclined to recommend reading or listening to “The American Heiress” by Daisy Goodwin. Two stars is for the absolutely flawless execution of the costumes. Everyone loved Bridgerton even though it was ridiculous and impossible because it didn’t take itself seriously. This is precisely the opposite problem.