BBC skatītāji ir apzīmējuši vēsturisko drāmu Karalis un iekarotājs “Dārga kritums” tā vēsturisko neprecizitāšu dēļ.
Sērijas zvaigznes Džeimss Nortons kā Harolds, Veseksas grāfs un Nikolajs Coster-Valdau kā Normandijas hercogs Viljams, izdomātajā pasākumā par notikumiem, kas noveda pie Anglijas Normana iekarošanas.
Viewers condemned the use of “modern language and phrases” in the program, saying they “would never have been heard” in the 11th century period depicted in the program.
“I’m sorry to say that King and Conqueror is not only complete, utter crap, but it’s also just plain bad TV,” one person wrote on X/Twitter.
They added: “It’s definitely not history, so if [it was] a drama then it needed a proper script, which it doesn’t have. I rather liked Eddie Marsan [King Edward], who at least tried to build his character.”
Meanwhile, another viewer said they turned off the series in the second episode because the show is “wrong in so many ways:.
They wrote. “A waste of talent and a missed opportunity to share real history.”
Norton, who was also the series’ executive producer, defended The King and the Conqueror during an appearance on This Morning last week, saying that you have to “make things happen” for “great drama.”
The actor said the series’ “big story beats” are true, adding that the writers had to “interpret between the lines of history” due to “conflicting accounts of what actually happened.”
Other viewers enjoyed the series, dubbing the first episode “Amazing” on social media, adding that the show’s sets had done an “amazing job” in “making this look 1066.”
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In a two-star review of the series, The Independent critic Nick Hilton warned that viewers might struggle because the show is “almost imperceptibly dark.”
Reviewing the actors’ performances, he described Norton and Coster-Waldau’s William the Conqueror as “quite lovable vessels, bobbing with the tide of domestic politics… their wives [Beecham and Clémence Poésy as Matilda] are equally placed”.
Other critics were similarly unimpressed, with The Telegraph branding it “More Monty Python than Game of Thrones” and The Guardian noting that it “hangs a little too heavy” to achieve its goal of being a “yarn-pulling thriller.”
The King and the Conqueror is now available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
