- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
It’s the difficult third episode. And in Camelot’s case it labours along like a wet weekend. This is one of those series where the setting and the characters make you forever optimistic that at any moment some real, full-blooded drama will break out. After all, there are knights and damsels and sorcery and castles! Surely boredom isn’t an option? But it is.
Most of this episode looks like it's targeted at teenage girls, but I suspect even they will be bored by the nothingy scenes featuring Guinevere’s limp uncertainty over whether to marry hunky Leontes when she has the hots for pretty-boy Arthur. Meanwhile, after a meal of roast plastic fish, Morgan trims Merlin’s toenails.It’s the difficult third episode. And in Camelot’s case it labours along like a wet weekend. This looks like being one of those series where the setting and the characters make you forever optimistic that at any moment some real, full-blooded drama will break out. After all, there are knights and damsels and sorcery and castles! Surely boredom isn’t an option? But it is.
Most of tonight’s story looks to be targeted at teenage girls, but I suspect even they will be bored by the nothingy scenes featuring Guinevere’s limp uncertainty over whether to marry hunky Leontes when she has the hots for pretty-boy Arthur. Meanwhile, after a meal of roast plastic fish, Morgan trims Merlin’s toenails.
About this programme
3/10. Guinevere's home is ransacked by raiders as she prepares for her wedding to Leontes, forcing her to ask Camelot's new king to protect her, as well as her father and maid Bridget. Drama, starring Tamsin Egerton, Philip Winchester and Jamie Campbell Bower.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Merlin
- Joseph Fiennes
- King Arthur
- Jamie Campbell Bower
- Guinevere
- Tamsin Egerton
- Leontes
- Philip Winchester
- Morgan
- Eva Green
- Queen Igraine
- Claire Forlani
- Kay
- Peter Mooney
- Vivian
- Chipo Chung
- Gawain
- Clive Standen
- Brastias
- Diarmaid Murtagh
- Leodegrance
- Daragh O'Malley
- Borin
- Ed Cosgrove
- Ulfius
- Jamie Downey
- Bridget
- Lara Jean Chorostecki
- Ginger
- Kevin Shackleton
- Beseecher
- Guy Carleton
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