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I've searched and can't find a thread on this new Starz drama. Anybody watching? I'm finding it highly entertaining action, and the lead makes some amusing comments. Blake Ritson is especially good cast as the evil Count Riario.
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In a world where though and faith are controlled, one man fights to set knowledge free.
The secret history of Leonardo daVinci's tantalizing life reveals a portrait of a young man tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He is a heretic intent on exposing the lies of religion. An insurgent seeking to subvert an elitist society. A b----rd son who yearns for legitimacy with his father.
I watched this show last week and I really enjoyed it. Sadly it is on Starz and I was getting a free week of it. So I don't plan on watching anymore of it. I can't get hooked. I really did like what I saw of it though.
There are a lot of people complaining about the historical inaccuracies in this show but having done that myself in the past, I've decided to just treat it like one of those murder mysteries that feature real people such as Jane Austen, which we all know is completely hooey but so what. I'm quite sure the producers don't intend this to be a biography of Da Vinci - more a it-could've-been-like-this-so-let's-just-try-to-enjoy-it kind of show. And everyone seems to be having so much fun making this series!
I watched this show last week and I really enjoyed it. Sadly it is on Starz and I was getting a free week of it. So I don't plan on watching anymore of it. I can't get hooked. I really did like what I saw of it though.
Hi Tamz, not sure if you have Verizon Fios for cable, but I called last week and got Starz and Encore for an extra $6 per month for both.
I've searched and can't find a thread on this new Starz drama. Anybody watching? I'm finding it highly entertaining action, and the lead makes some amusing comments. Blake Ritson is especially good cast as the evil Count Riario.
On 10 MAY 2013 LAURENCE CAROMBA wrote his review entitled:
Da Vinci’s Demons: Bad in a rather special way The series is so incapable of subtlety that it destroys any semblance of immersion.
I have to admit that it captured my imagination in a way many of the other historical adaptations like The Tudors, The Borgias, did not.
I like the way it stays within the historical context very accurately except for some minor timeline discrepancies, yet the show still manages to be a complete flight of fantasy.
Amerigo Vespucci lived in Florence, and was only two years younger than Leonardo Da Vinci. His voyages some two decades later would cause him to realize that Columbus had not discovered a route to Asia, but to a brave new world. He was rewarded by the new land being named America (North and South) rather than Columbia as you would expect. Columbus died believing that he was in Asia.
In reality Leonardo did vanish from the historical record for about two years after his trial for sodomy. In the series he is trying to travel to the future South America, which is discussed in the book of leaves.
I thought that the writer was somewhat inventive in how he handled the question of whether Leonardo was gay and if he was guilty of the charge of sodomy. Leonardo is presented as a great experimenter of all aspects of life, including sex.
I'm enjoying the second season despite being ever more fantastic.
See, I don't mind the fantasy because the internal logic of the series assumes that Leonardo was a superman, and that he did all these things in the gaps in history. I am more bothered if Clarice Orsini's brother was not really the Cardinal. If you are going to engage in fantasy, then it seems more important to try and get the real historical facts correct.
I do like the more aggressive Clarice.
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I really did like what I saw of it though.
