Blackadder

A classic British comedy great, Blackadder is a series that nearly didn't make it past the first series. Billed initially as a comic way of looking through history, it intended to portray a dimwit and his various acquaintances in different periods of time. Starring the excellent Rowan Atkinson, it portraayed the title character, Edmund Blackadder, as intellectually inferior to everyone else, hoping that we as viewers would find it entertaining. The style was greeted with criticism and a mediocre fanbase, and so they decided to switch for the second series, making Blackadder the incredibly clever noble that most of us have come to know and love, and casting ...  Read the complete review

As I sit here writing this review I am watching the entire series DVD, starting with the 2nd series as Edmund Blackadder bows down to the demands of Queen Elizabeth. I must say I never liked the first series, I have watched it once and hardly laughed once, since I have never watched it again and go straight to series 2 when deciding to watch this tv show. series 2 was brilliant to me as it was the very first real blackadder series and was the start of something special. Series 3 was set in the regal times of the late 1700's, Hugh Laurie certainly adds a brilliant aspect to this series that was missing from series 2, the stupidity of the pricne is at ...  Read the complete review

For British televion at its best, you can do no worse than watch Blackadder. To me, it's one of the funniest and most original shows that has ever been produced. This is not just down to the talent of Rowan Atkinson, but also to the other stars, the writing, the storylines, the sets - just about everything about it screams pure quality. Each of the four series has been completely different from each other. It's hard for me to say which one I preferred but, if I was forced to choose, I think it would be the series with Hugh Laurie as the Prince of Wales, set in the Regency period. Hugh Laurie excels himself in stupidity and, although I have seen each episode ...  Read the complete review

This comedy starred Rowan Atkinson who in each of the series played a decendant of the Blackadder family, the first series was set in medieval times while the final series was set in the trenches of the First World War, in all there were four series. My personal favourite series was the one set in the court of Elizabeth 1st however the final series was also very funny. This was an excellent comedy, sharply written with some great one liners and some fine comic performances. In all of the incantations Blackadder was a nasty character who was purely out for himslef, in every series he was accompanied by his servant Baldrick played by Tony Robinson, Baldrick main ...  Read the complete review

This is a classic comedy and quite innovative as each series follows the family line of the Blackadder family through history, in each time period Blackadder played by Rowan Atkinson is a nasty bully who is only out for himself and is contantly putting down his servant Baldrick played by Tony Robinson. The writing in this show is fantastic and the put down lines of Blackadder are laced with sarcasm and ridicule. The final series set in the trenches of the first world war is probably my favourite and it has a slightly darker edge to it with Stephen Fry absolutely brilliant as General Melchitt the mad leader of Captain Blackadders regiment. The other ...  Read the complete review