kimberleyrigg

I came across this show just scrolling Prime looking for something to watch and for some reason it caught my eye. I have not heard anything about it so they cannot have promoted it very well. Anyway...I loved it!! Period piece are generally not my vibe but this show has so much more to it than a dry period piece. It is a modern take that is done in such a fun way that I was hooked straight away and binged it in a week. I looked up when season 2 was going to be released straight away only to find it had been cancelled....boo Amazon. Please do a better marketing job Amazon because this show was a delight and it is a shame more people did not find it. Anyway congrats to cast a crew. Even though it is only 1 season I would definitely recommend.

I started watching this on Prime and I really enjoyed the first season. These days I generally binge a show and move on to the next one and as such it got old very quickly. It is case of the week and very very formulaic and there is no overarching story across the season so I watched up to the end of season 2 and stopped. If I was someone who watched multiple shows at the same time at a slower pace I think I would have enjoyed it more but this one is just not for me. The acting writing and production is good but there just want not enough variety in the story to keep me engaged to watch the remaining seasons.

I have read and enjoyed a lot of the books so I thought I would enjoy the show. To my surprise I struggled through the first season and decided not to watch the 2nd just because I did not enjoy the show. I cannot pin point why it is not connecting with me because I think it is a good adaption of the book. The only thing I can say is that I probably did not connect with the main actor / character the way I did with the character in the books which is not to say the actor does a bad job it just did not work for me. I maybe would have liked the show more if I had not read the books. My recommendation is read the books.