, Prime Video’s new take on an old tale of historical upheaval, palace intrigue, and social evolution. It’s the kind of thing that always gets said in stories like this, where women are pawns in the man’s game of thrones, dominated and married off and exiled and executed to suit the whims of the power players, doomed to the life of subservience fated to them by their birth.
The show is based on the books by author trio Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows, whose series, beginning with the 2016 novel of the same name, reimagines the life of Lady Jane Grey, the noblewoman who assumed the throne of England after the deaths of her uncle King Henry VIII and her young cousin King Edward VI. Edward VI had presided over the Protestant Reformation of the Church of England, and as she was a Protestant he knew Jane would keep his work going after his death.
Kate O'Flynn as Princess Mary, Will Keen as Norfolk, Jason Forbes as Scrope, Brandon Grace as William, Henry Ashton as Stan Dudley and Isabella Brownson as Katherine Grey., the show, exists in an alternate reality to ours, populated by a similar aristocratic nobility that dominates society, and an underclass of magical shapeshifters called “Ethians” who, in an unsubtle racism/homophobia/apartheid metaphor, are persecuted by the government if their ability is found out.
It’s one thing to do a “yas queen” alternate history where female empowerment is placed above historical accuracy, but it’s quite another to ask audiences to accept that in this alternate history the main political issue is whether or not the people who can transform into animals should be executed as witches or not.
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