I love a good historical adaptation (actually, if it’s beautiful and fun enough, I’ve even been known to appreciate a bad historical adaptation, i.e. Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette), so naturally, I was more than ready when I read that My Lady Jane, a historical fantasy-slash-romance series about Lady Jane Grey, was in the works.
The show—which stars Emily Bader, Dominic Cooper, and Edward Bluemel—debuted on Prime Video last week, and I couldn’t resist the temptation to record every single thought I had while watching its first episode. Read them all below:
- I love when a show begins with a map.
- I’m not being ironic; I do, actually, love this. Take me somewhere!
- I could have used this little English-lineage recap when I was trying to pass world history in high school!
- I mean, ahem, of course, we’re all super familiar with the order in which Henry VIII’s wives died, but it never hurts to be refreshed.
- “What if history were different?” Indeed.
- Sort of a Fleabag–meets–Drunk History vibe here.
- I am nostalgic for the era when the girlies just hung out and made curative potions out of herbs together, TBH.
- I don’t hate this 10 Things I Hate About You–esque intro sequence either.
- I really like the Grey Widow’s brocade coat.
- The child actor playing Margaret rocks.
- “Stupid women are tedious.” Well, yes!
- Lady Jane just wants to hang out with her female friend and make potions…. Interesting!
- I’m not saying there has to be a queer plotline, but I won’t be mad if there is one.
- Whatever luminizer Lady Jane is wearing has me frantically googling.
- Wow, a book-draft-burning plotline straight out of Little Women.
- Sorry, now I’m mad again about Amy burning Jo’s book.
- Like, don’t come for her publishing career!
- Corset sex!
- Ooh, cloaks set against the sunset.
- Very this lesbian wedding!
- Did Jane’s friend just…turn into a hawk?
- Alright, whats going on here, actually?
- Okay, the narrator is oversimplifying it for me.
- So the fancy people in this society can’t change into animals, but the less-fancy people can? I’m just trying to understand!
- Why does everyone else have relatively normal hair, but the Grey Widow has this puffed-up situation?
- This guy’s one-ear, pearl-drop earring is very Harry Styles, if I may.
- We also need to bring back men in ornate peach frills (and not just Harry Styles).
- Okay, the man in ornate peach frills is Guilford Dudley, who is apparently important.
- The Ethian resistance plotline is heating up, but I still haven’t 100% figured out what that means.
- Jane tries to charm the king into intervening on her mother’s planned arranged marriage, but he’s a misogynist like all the rest of them and won’t help.
- The king has the affliction!
- Is that…the plague?
- God, I really wasted my education.
- Okay, I like the First Wives Club energy of Princess Mary and Princess Elizabeth.
- This castle looks like that one former armory building in Crown Heights.
- Lots of palace intrigue about Mary that, again, I’m not totally following.
- Okay, hate some of these anachronisms. Isn’t the one redeeming factor of the Tudor era that men didn’t use the word toxic?
- OMG, is Dominic Cooper going to kill this dog?
- I’m no horse girl, but this white one Jane is riding is very pretty, I must admit.
- Once again, I’m so charmed by the indie-rock girl pop music over the Tudor setting.
- Ooh, Jane’s falling hard for this hot poet being annoying on a table.
- Edward Bluemel really is extremely handsome, I must admit.
- Once you hear “You are the rudest man I have ever met” in a Tudor drama, you know it’s going down.
- Bear-knight fight…?
- Who will win, the bear or the knights?
- This is very “Bear and Robot Talk Show” from 30 Rock.
- Hawk vibes again!
- Hawk tuah, if you will.
- Oh, okay, I very belatedly just realized that the king was being poisoned.
- Is he also gay?
- Jane almost gets drowned for being a suspected Ethian, but her mother rescues her.
- But she’s still making her marry Guilford Dudley, so she still sucks!
- These two desperately need to work it out on the remix.
- Ooh, fancy evening dresses.
- Oh shit, Guilford Dudley isn’t that douchey guy, it’s…the hot table poet! Slay!
- Okay, I enjoyed that.
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