Should you watch Blackadder?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Blackadder
Series · 1983
Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of The Great War.
The sides of Blackadder
- A scheming Edmund Blackadder across the centuries
- Baldrick and his cunning plans
- The trenches of the First World War
Blackadder is good for you if…
- you like Rowan Atkinson insulting everyone around him.
- you like English history played as a farce, from the Middle Ages to 1917.
- you laugh at the plague, executions and the trenches.
Blackadder is bad for you if…
- you find 1980s British television dated.
- you can't root for a hero who is cruel, cowardly and selfish.
About: cynicism · class · the absurdity of war
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