{"id":84145,"date":"2023-03-18T13:39:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T13:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/18\/the-misadventures-of-a-young-marie-antoinette-among-spoiled-french-royals\/"},"modified":"2023-03-18T13:39:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T13:39:55","slug":"the-misadventures-of-a-young-marie-antoinette-among-spoiled-french-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/18\/the-misadventures-of-a-young-marie-antoinette-among-spoiled-french-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Misadventures of a Young ‘Marie Antoinette’ Among Spoiled French Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Forget \u201cwill they or won\u2019t they?\u201d<\/p>\n

In the PBS<\/a> import Marie Antoinette<\/a>, <\/em>a tongue-in-rouged-cheek tackle a interval biography, the query is when<\/i> will the diffident younger Dauphin, later King Louis XVI, take his teenage Austrian bride, Marie Antoinette, to mattress? Their relationship is proven to be shrug at first sight, however the gossipy 18th-century French court docket hangs on these political pawns\u2019 each transfer. After all, as Marie\u2019s mom the Empress Maria Theresa (Marthe Keller<\/a>) impresses upon her earlier than sending her away, \u201cYour job is to deliver the heir.\u201d Yeah, however first issues first.<\/p>\n

For a lot of the stylized first season, written by The Favourite<\/i><\/a>\u2019s Deborah Davis and ending nicely earlier than the fateful Reign of Terror, Louis (gawky Louis Cunningham<\/a>) flees on the very sight of Marie (a wonderfully saucy Emilia Sch\u00fcle<\/a>) in a sexual panic. She\u2019s annoyed by his rejection, however he\u2019s simply unhappy and pitiful, to the delight of these elaborately bewigged vultures and ghouls who mock and taunt these shellshocked children.<\/p>\n

Marie\u2019s reception is chilly from the second she crosses into France and meets the monstrous mistress of family, Madame de Noailles (Laura Benson<\/a>), dubbed \u201cMadame Etiquette\u201d for her strict and humorless adherence to protocol. Which apparently means taking away poor Marie\u2019s canine like a European model of The Wizard of Oz<\/em><\/a>\u2018s Miss Almira Gulch. \u201cA French princess does not display her feelings \u2014 and never cries in public,\u201d scolds the Madame. Point taken.<\/p>\n

Subtlety is not a virtue in a series that adopts a powerfully feminist sensibility amid jarringly modern vernacular. (I doubt \u201cWham, bam, thank you ma\u2019am\u201d was a part of anybody\u2019s vocabulary again then.) Purists will scoff, although others may benefit from the sight of folded paper doves flying via an opulent Versailles, containing vile rumors like an early type of Twitter. With spies at each keyhole, do these not-quite-lovebirds stand an opportunity?<\/p>\n

The early chapters are enlivened by James Purefoy\u2019s droll tackle Louis\u2019 lusty father, Louis \u201cPapa Roi\u201d XV, and Marie\u2019s jousting with the king\u2019s possessive and jealous mistress, the fabled Madame Du Barry (Gaia Weiss<\/a>). But as soon as they\u2019re out of the image, and the bratty new Queen turns her Petit Trianon chateau into a celebration palace, it\u2019s arduous to muster a lot sympathy for these spoiled royals and their reprehensible foes.<\/p>\n

Is it mistaken to be counting the times till the French Revolution? <\/span><\/p>\n

Marie Antoinette<\/em>, Series Premiere, <\/span><\/b>Sunday,<\/b> March 19,<\/b> 10\/9c, PBS<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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