EPISODE
The Black Adder - Season 1
This comedy series was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson and was produced by John Lloyd. The series is an alternative historical embodiment of King Richard III who fought the Battle of Bosworth Field only to be understood by someone else and killed for no reason. Richard IV, who has always sought to increase his status and overthrow everyone, took office.
1948, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
27 January 1950, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
21 August 1939, London, England, UK
24 May 1949, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
20 November 1936, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
May 19, 1921 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
15 August 1946, London, England, UK
4 July 1926, Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK
September 11, 2018
It's rare that a hist0ory-based comedy is genuinely funny, and in that sense Blackadder is a true diamond in the rough.
November 28, 2018
Most of the jokes fall flat and there's no real wit of spark to the characters.
November 28, 2018
There is just something so amazingly awful, so delightfully despicable about the man that you can't help but hang on his every wicked wisecrack and/or deed.
November 28, 2018
Though the writing was strong and the verbal interplay was there, the first series made the mistake of abundance, with Edmund Blackadder too bumbling, the cast too abounding and the sets too sprawling.
November 28, 2018
It's definitely the writing and varying plateaus of verbal trickery used, even without the novel historical hook, that make Black Adder stand out.
November 27, 2018
Pilots are hard to get right, particularly comedy pilots, so it's not surprising that "The Foretelling" is among the series' most uneven episodes.
September 11, 2018
Leave it to the Brits to find humor in World War I.