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Dear America (and anywhere else that Auntie Beeb tries to sell it)
Sorry.
Our BBC normally produces better than this. This time it failed and on behalf of Britain I apologise.
I can allow for "bending" of the facts to help a better drama but historical inaccuracies in an "Historical Drama" are just not acceptable.
As well as these glaringly obvious errors, victims of floggings recover amazingly quickly, others are "starving" because they have not eaten since breakfast and the female lead has such perfect teeth. Most of us in the UK in 2015 still don't have teeth as good as this let alone in 1788!
As for us Brits. This is being on BBC2 - BE WARNED it is NOT a BBC TWO drama! At best this is BBC1 fare but more likely this would be something that you would find on "the other side" (and I don't mean Channel 4).
It is a reasonable yarn and the idea is a good one (and why I have given it as high as 4/10).
Admittedly my opinion is based on the evidence of the first episode only but so far it is soap-opera tosh. I WILL give the second episode a chance in the hope it is improves but for me this show is very much living on borrowed time.
Sorry, we are so sorry.
score 4/10
peter-2749 16 March 2015
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