Merlin

Dear god, but I cannot believe how bad the new BBC series Merlin is. What a waste of some good actorly talents (John Hurt, for example) on a pile of utter crap.

 

Update: Mark Pickavance’s review puts into words the reasons why I was so irritated with Merlin. Not content with driving SUVs through the mythology, the writers also brought in flat modern dialogue (example: "don’t be such a prat…"). While I’m not looking for Chaucerian English, I think we deserved better than this…