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"This is quality British comedy"
"historically accurate and enormously funny"
"the final five minutes, of the last episode of the
last series are provide some of the best television writing ever
done"
"Rat-O-Van? Yes, It's Rat That's Been...Run Over By A
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Black Adder - Complete Box
Set (all four series)
by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton |
Review
Follow the progress of Rowan Atkinson's irredeemably wicked
Edmund Blackadder throughout history in this complete box set of all four
series--from the snivelling War of the Roses-era creep in the
Shakespearean parody that was the first series, to his final and
unexpectedly noble demise in the trenches of the First World War in Blackadder Goes Forth. In between, of course, we see Edmund at the
court of giggly Queen Elizabeth I in Blackadder II, now transformed
into the Machiavellian cad audiences came to love so well (thanks to a
character overhaul from writing team Ben Elton and Richard Curtis and
Rowan Atkinson’s note-perfect performance). Then in Blackadder III
he's still scheming, but this time has moved a little down the social
ladder as butler to the congenitally stupid Prince Regent on the cusp of
the 18th and 19th centuries. In all four generations Blackadder is
accompanied (or should that be hampered?) by his faithful yet terminally
stupid servant Baldrick (Tony Robinson); and if that wasn't bad enough he
also has to put up with the incompetence, pomposity and one-upmanship of a
host of other contemporary hangers-on wonderfully played by regular
co-stars Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnery, Stephen Fry, Miranda Richardson and Rik
Mayall. Taken as a whole this sharp, cynical, occasionally satirical,
toilet humour-obsessed and achingly funny saga deserves to stand alongside
Fawlty Towers as one of the best ever British sitcoms.
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