Franklin review: Michael Douglas is in his element but the rest of this sumptuous period show falls flat

Franklin review: Michael Douglas is in his element but the rest of this sumptuous period show falls flat

Franklin has one thing going for it, and that one thing is the star of Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct. Douglas, at 79, remains one of Hollywood’s most charismatic mischief-makers. He is in his element as the cunning and mercurial Benjamin Franklin. That’s just as well because everything else about the eight-part series – loosely adapted from Stacy Schiff’s non-fictional tome A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America – is by-the-book frock porn.

Michael Douglas as Benjamin Franklin and Noah Jupe as Temple Franklin. Photograph: Rémy Grandroques/Apple TV+ Home of the Year winner revealed: restored 1920s redbrick ‘full of style and bold design’ lands the big prizeOur American in Paris has motives of his own. He has bought with him his grandson Temple , to whom he wishes to pass on the lessons of a lifetime of statecraft. Temple, at one point, echoes a line from Broadway hit Hamilton, observing the Revolutionaries are outgunned and outmanned.

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