Versailles Season 1 Episode 4 Review
Last week I said BBC Two’s megabudget Anglo-Franco sexy period drama
Versailles might be able to redeem itself after a rather lackluster performance over the past three episodes. A lot was riding on episode four, and France seems to be dominating the news this week, what with the Euro 2016 tournament, Operation Croissant and now a suggestion that it might follow the UK’s lead and stage a Frexit. Our French neighbours have a lot to answer for, not least what is now firmly an absolutely diabolical failure of TV drama.
Versailles is just, plain, horrendous. episode four opens with Louis XIV, who is fast becoming a whiney, miserable so-and-so, storming around the palace with a rather nasty head injury which doesn’t seem to have any context whatsoever and is never explained. Philippe is off fighting a battle in what is supposedly Spain but looks suspiciously like the Yorkshire dales in both scenery and weather. No context for this either.