Martin And Janet Rose

After watching The Last Kingdom which was great with charismatic characters and good story lines, I was looking forward to seeing The Winter King as I had read the books many years ago and was sucked in to the Arthurian legend. Oh dear, obviously the adaptor didn't read the books because what came on screen had little to do with them. The main problem for me was the lead characters lack of any charisma. Arthur should have beguiled us but all we got was a short guy with a short haircut and terrible dress sense who only won fights using a rusty Excalibur.Derfel was a drip and wouldn't frighten a rabbit let alone a Saxon. Merlin and Nimue should have opted for a stint at Glastonbury. The only one that had spark was Owain but he was killed off by Arthur ( only because he used The Sword ). I managed 6 episodes before total boredom set in with the plot and switched off.

Saw about 15 minutes of this mumbled drama before we lost hope and switched to something worth watching when the police man who had 'issues' resigned in Dublin but started investigating in NZ. Did we miss anything? The sound was that poor we needed subtitles!