Streaming services, cable TV and Primetime television are fighting for your viewership now more than ever. UNBINGED is here to help you weed through it all, with reviews of the latest shows that highlight what we love, what we hate and what we love to hate-watch, too.
Fiction inspired by facts, or facts distorted by fiction? History-inspired tales of great queens are more imagination than authenticity, but if the story is good, why let a few white lies stand in the way? For this edition of UnBinged, we take a look at streaming’s current royal treatment in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Queen Cleopatra and The Great Season 3-– all popular dramas that misconstrue the history of great female leaders for the sake of entertainment. Which deserves a crown and which needs to go down? Read on.
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Netflix)
Before the bodice-ripping, tawdry tales of Bridgerton continue for a third season, Netflix has unleashed a spin-off inspired by their very empress. But will the miniseries offer the same brazen, bawdy good time? Yes and no. Instead of a hot n’ heavy regency romance for a modern age, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story offers a royal courtship for the ages, filled with enchantment and heartbreak.
Before she was the gossip-loving, whip-smart, barb-tongued monarch who ruled her royal court with an iron will, Queen Charlotte (India Amarteifio) was an impulsive young woman in an arranged marriage with King George III (Corey Mylchreest) who would rather impale herself on her whale-bone corset than take a husband. But soon, the two find they are a good match. Then court politics and bad genetics set things asunder.
As the story of young Charlotte plays out, the elder Queen (Golda Rosheuvel) must contend with her own children in the current Bridgerton timeline as the royal lineage faces peril. Leads Amarteifio and Mylchreest have a chemistry that’s palpable from the…
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