If it has so many errors, why didn't he just get an editor (I apologize immediately)? This is a wacky one, and each version has its own interesting celebrity cast member with differing degrees of likelihood. It's time for double trouble in Ephesus!
We're getting into the real stuff, folks. Come enjoy the antics of the man who was so evil everyone decided to chuck the whole royal family and start over from scratch.
The tragedy has landed! And oh buddy, what a tragedy it is. Luckily, there are a couple of actually good filmed versions of it. Trigger warning for basically everything.
We're back in comedy land, and this one is arguably less sexist than the last one! Though that might just be because it's mostly about dudes. You might have heard the title, but we bet dollars to donuts you couldn't tell us a thing about it. There are reasons why.
The trilogy ends here! Bigger battles! More stabbings! Tom Sturridge naked in a field! You don't want to miss the shocking conclusion to the Wars of the Roses!
Ok, jumping into the deep end already, huh? We discover why people don't stage the Henry VI trilogy, but also why we sort of wish they would.
Prithee attend! The Shake Up is coming January 29, 2025. We're comparing film adaptations of Shakespeare plays from the first to the last. Come for the bawdy jokes, stay for the pathos. It's going to be anything but stuffy, we promise.
Theme music is Cantiga 166 by Hildegard Von Blingin'.
The journey has come to an end (because we simply can't do this any longer. That's how the grail quest ended, right?). Let's send it off with our most requested episode ever!
In January, get ready for... The Shake Up!
Hallelujah, a serviceable film. Better than serviceable, it's actually pretty good! It looks like someone actually got Tristan and Isolde right, during a very big year for Arthuriana on film.
Thus concludes our last, torturous October on this Grail Quest, and it truly is the worst yet. All apologies to everyone who worked hard on this film, but listener, you should never, ever watch it. This is unhallowed ground.
We're not going to call it a good movie, but the bar is so low at this point. We had a good time and we can't ask for much more than that.
What if someone adapted the buckwild backstory of Merlin as though it was a bland, aughts-era hero boy story? It might look a little something like this...
Bonus: Merlin and the Dragons (1991) is actually pretty nice!
Hey, it's something somebody may have actually watched! It was hugely popular when it aired, but does The Mists of Avalon hold up two decades later?
**note: at the beginning of the episode there is brief discussion of the author of the book and her participation in CSA during her life**
We have on our hands a remarkable thing: a king Arthur movie that is well made, and interesting, and also very boring and kind of mean? We're not going to tell you to watch it (unless you really want to), but we'll explain in the episode.
Can it be? An Arthurian story we've never covered? Be still, my heart. Let's meet Marie de France and Lanval!
Well, it's an easy watch at least. We've got another Connecticut Yankee on our hands, but did Disney manage to do anything interesting with it? And would it really be possible to build a medieval mountain bike?
If you want some straight up and down mid-century Arthuriana, it doesn't get more stock-standard than this. No, that's not supposed to sound like a compliment.
Is it possible to Frankenstein a good movie from the remains of a prior, not very good movie? Maybe, but Siege of the Saxons is not it, off-brand Robin Hood notwithstanding.
We thought the 2000s Tristan and Isolde was a low water mark, but this one gives it a run for its money. Is it impossible to make a good Tristan and Isolde? And, more crucially, who the hell is Dinas?
