FrKadash
Justified & Ancient
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Thought this new series Britannia looked brilliant! Mackenzie Crook is a great actor and writer, and Detectorists is one of my all time favourite series.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...ia-jez-butterworths-mad-masterpiece-tv-series
Giant squid and sexed-up druids: is Britannia Jez Butterworth's mad masterpiece?
The playwright’s venture into big-budget television is a heady combination of horrible history and dollops of British ‘folk horror’. But did any of it actually exist?
Thu 11 Jan ‘18 06.00 GMT
It is 43 AD. Britain. A young girl is on the verge of an initiation ceremony that will nudge her into adulthood via chanting, dancing and something nasty with a knife. Zoë Wanamaker as Antedia, warrior queen of a British clan, is magnificent in electric-blue eyeshadow and bird’s nest hair. A mysterious outcast from the druids is receiving signs – from the badgers and the frogs, among other authorities – that something in Albion is badly amiss. Mackenzie Crook, who has clearly spent hours in makeup, is listing and swaying menacingly, face caked with clay-coloured grime, high as a kite on some nameless drug. Crook, a cadaverous vision, is the druidic leader, Veran.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...ia-jez-butterworths-mad-masterpiece-tv-series