Marie Antoinette (2022)

Name: Marie Antoinette (2022)
Genre: Drama
Released: March 19, 2023
Rating: 60

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PBS | BBC Two | Release Date: March 19, 2023

Summary: 14-year-old Marie Antoinette (Emilia Schüle) is married to future Louis XVI (Louis Cunningham) and must learn to navigate the French court and produce a male child in this drama series written by Deborah Davis.

[Premiered originally in France on Canal+ on 31 Oct 2022; in the UK on BBC Two in 29 Dec 2022 and in the US on PBS on 19 Mar 2023]

Genre(s): Drama

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The Guardian Emine Saner

Jan 3, 2023

Season 1 Review: It’s good fun, and almost too much, but it works. Read full review

Joel Keller

Mar 21, 2023

Season 1 Review: Marie Antoinette starts slowly but should pick up as Antoinette tries to seduce the reluctant Louie and both become monarchs. Read full review

The Times Carol Midgley

Jan 3, 2023

Season 1 Review: I've seen subtler versions of the ugly sisters in panto Cinderella. Yet while the drama will inevitably be picked apart by experts over cultural missteps and inaccuracies, and seems to prize style over content, I like its fresh energy. Read full review

The Telegraph Jasper Rees

Jan 3, 2023

Season 1 Review: Schüle, pebbly brown eyes exuding less and less innocence, is highly watchable as an unloved newbie in an utterly foreign court. ... It feels more like a Versailles-themed edition of Love Island with retrofitted dialogue. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Barbara Ellen

Sep 10, 2024

Season 1 Review: It’s sumptuous period fare, but suffused with dread and melancholy; a sense of spiders and vermin scuttling over the bowls of pretty bonbons. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Mar 10, 2023

Season 1 Review: The early chapters are enlivened by James Purefoy's droll take on Louis' lusty father, Louis "papa Roi" XV, and Marie's jousting with the king's possessive mistress, the fabled Madame Du Barry (Gaia Weiss). But once they're out of the picture, and the bratty new Queen turns her Petit Trianon chateau into a party palace, it's hard to muster much sympathy for these spoiled royals and their reprehensible foes. [13 - 26 Mar 2023, p.4]

Collider Arezou Amin

Mar 17, 2023

Season 1 Review: Marie Antoinette genuinely tries to put a new spin on the life of the famous French Queen, but in trying to both do something different, and stick to what worked so well for stories that came before it, the series winds up speaking far too much and saying very little. Read full review

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Karmel

Jan 7, 2023

Look, you do just have to roll with some of the outlandishness in certain power dynamics and characters *cough* Du Barry *cough* but I had a blast watching this. It’s different to your typical period drama without being so heightened and removed from reality it feels like ‘The Great’ (whichLook, you do just have to roll with some of the outlandishness in certain power dynamics and characters *cough* Du Barry *cough* but I had a blast watching this. It’s different to your typical period drama without being so heightened and removed from reality it feels like ‘The Great’ (which I adore). The actors are fantastic, Schule is so engaging and interesting as the lead and the rest of the cast is full of fresh, exciting faces (who I’ve not seen before at least). The characters are a ton of fun, especially once they’re given time to develop and settle, and I really enjoyed watching different pairings play off each other (with lots more potential in a second series). I’ve seen reviews about the first half being slow. I agree to a point, but often it really works and helps to establish a certain sense of weight and consequence before the show becomes this playful and entertaining romp - because at that point it’s easy to forget how this all ends.… Expand

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Sandyphilly23

Jan 6, 2023

A slow start which is more somber than expected, but this series really shines as it progresses and you start to see some of that tongue-in-cheek, self aware humour that made The Favourite a classic. Addictive characters, loving and hating each other in a gaudy palace. Fantastic sets,A slow start which is more somber than expected, but this series really shines as it progresses and you start to see some of that tongue-in-cheek, self aware humour that made The Favourite a classic. Addictive characters, loving and hating each other in a gaudy palace. Fantastic sets, costumes and score. What’s not to love (well, unless you’re after accurate history).… Expand

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Ashded

Jan 13, 2023

Potential to be amazing but for now it’s good with some issues. There’s plenty here to love - cast, visuals, atmosphere, and as it goes along some really enjoyable satire. The characters are interesting and bounce off each other well. The series plays with the genre and teases the viewerPotential to be amazing but for now it’s good with some issues. There’s plenty here to love - cast, visuals, atmosphere, and as it goes along some really enjoyable satire. The characters are interesting and bounce off each other well. The series plays with the genre and teases the viewer without becoming so silly it loses the emotion and drama. But it needs to expand out. The first series was obviously going to focus on Marie Antoinette’s POV but the consummation storyline only carries the show so far and it’s the rest of the court who are the most intriguing. There’s so much to be mined in the politics of Versailles and suffering of the common people. The show could really be something memorable if it explores these storylines and not just the usual love affair with Fersen.… Expand

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  Air Date: March 19, 2023