EPISODE
The Black Adder - Season 1
The authors Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson present a comedy series that embodies the history of King Louis XIV. The series begins with an alternate history in which King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field only to be understood where he was eventually killed. Richard IV, one of the princes, took over the reins of power, where he was able to go through an alternative experience in pursuit of a higher position.
1956, London, England, UK
1930, Bristol, England, UK
4 July 1926, Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK
24 March 1945, Berkshire, England, UK
27 January 1950, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
7 March 1958, Harlow, Essex, England, UK
9 April 1961, St Pancras, London, England, UK
20 March 1932, Finsbury, London, England, UK
November 21, 1921 in Woolwich, London, England, UK
June 5, 1952 in London, England, UK
1954 in London, England, UK
6 January 1956, London, England, UK
1962
24 May 1949, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
1938, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK
28 October 1941, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK
17 March 1927, Nyasaland [now Malawi]
April 2, 1926 in Hackney, London, England, UK
4 March 1924, Guisborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
September 11, 2018
Leave it to the Brits to find humor in World War I.
November 28, 2018
Most of the jokes fall flat and there's no real wit of spark to the characters.
November 27, 2018
Pilots are hard to get right, particularly comedy pilots, so it's not surprising that "The Foretelling" is among the series' most uneven episodes.
November 28, 2018
It's definitely the writing and varying plateaus of verbal trickery used, even without the novel historical hook, that make Black Adder stand out.
September 11, 2018
It's rare that a hist0ory-based comedy is genuinely funny, and in that sense Blackadder is a true diamond in the rough.
November 28, 2018
Though the writing was strong and the verbal interplay was there, the first series made the mistake of abundance, with Edmund Blackadder too bumbling, the cast too abounding and the sets too sprawling.
November 28, 2018
There is just something so amazingly awful, so delightfully despicable about the man that you can't help but hang on his every wicked wisecrack and/or deed.
