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May 28, 2017MartineVK rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Definitely second-rate drama. That's because it is produced by Americans (The Starz Channel) who have added gobs of gratuitous nudity throughout, including during rape or would-be rape scenes. Sexing up violence against women is not appealing, thank you very much. A part as large as the protagonist's here, should have attracted loads of top British female actors. I suspect that all the unnecessary nudity and prurience put off all those women, which is why they ended up with a not very expressive former model in the lead role. Same thing for the role of Jamie, played by the overly-muscled Sam Heughan, who can be said, if I may quote Dorothy Parker, to run the gamut of human emotion from A to B. Heughan does contentment and anger and that's about it. My objection to gratuitous nudity is not out of prudery, but out of knowing that it contributes to the view that men are entitled to women's bodies. I feel sorry for the few name actors of note here in this series, and believe me there are very few. The ones that are here are older and roles in higher quality drama must be now thin on the ground. They deserve better than this tosh.