Enjoyable if you can take it for what it is: a TV show
As neutral swiss I don't have to stand at attention when the USA "win" again, so my review maybe less prejudiced.
I think that if you can accept this serie as "just" a TV show around true events, where some liberties must be taken to make it sufficiently entertaining, then you should be able to enjoy it.
I liked the settings, costumes and gear, much effort was put in to make it look realistic. Also the acting was quite convincing (within the given plot), IMO clearly above average, none of the major figures disappointed. I liked particularly the acting of Heather Lind (didn't know her before) playing Anna Strong, the acting looked very professional. And also Angus Macfadyen as Robert Rogers was great IMO, one of the most original figures in the serie. The plot however was too adventurous in several parts, what in retrospective IMO was not really needed, less free interpretations around the true events would not have hurt the attractivity of the serie.
The series moved me to read into the true events to find out many historical figures (of course) where taken in complete disregard of the known facts. First of all the "evil" Simcoe, a grossly misrepresented figure, definitely needlessly overdrawn, also a lesser brutal version would have done well in the series. In contrast, I found that the ambivalent figure of Benedict Arnold was put better in scene.
Since the series directly addresses true events, I give a 6/10. Entertainment yes, but overly dramatized out in a lot of parts, I think they should have paid more respect for the facts behind, would have prevented the series to go in such a fiction, but wouldn't necessarily have reduced the appeal of the series.
As neutral swiss I don't have to stand at attention when the USA "win" again, so my review maybe less prejudiced.
I think that if you can accept this serie as "just" a TV show around true events, where some liberties must be taken to make it sufficiently entertaining, then you should be able to enjoy it.
I liked the settings, costumes and gear, much effort was put in to make it look realistic. Also the acting was quite convincing (within the given plot), IMO clearly above average, none of the major figures disappointed. I liked particularly the acting of Heather Lind (didn't know her before) playing Anna Strong, the acting looked very professional. And also Angus Macfadyen as Robert Rogers was great IMO, one of the most original figures in the serie. The plot however was too adventurous in several parts, what in retrospective IMO was not really needed, less free interpretations around the true events would not have hurt the attractivity of the serie.
The series moved me to read into the true events to find out many historical figures (of course) where taken in complete disregard of the known facts. First of all the "evil" Simcoe, a grossly misrepresented figure, definitely needlessly overdrawn, also a lesser brutal version would have done well in the series. In contrast, I found that the ambivalent figure of Benedict Arnold was put better in scene.
Since the series directly addresses true events, I give a 6/10. Entertainment yes, but overly dramatized out in a lot of parts, I think they should have paid more respect for the facts behind, would have prevented the series to go in such a fiction, but wouldn't necessarily have reduced the appeal of the series.