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Marie Antoinette (2022)

Summary 14-year-old Marie Antoinette (Emilia Schüle) is married to future Louis XVI (Louis Cunningham) and must learn to navigate the French court and produce a male child in this drama series written by Deborah Davis. [Premiered originally in France on Canal+ on 31 Oct 2022; in the UK on BBC Two in 29 Dec 2022 and in the US on PBS on 19 Mar ...

Created By: Deborah Davis

  • 2022
  • PBS
  • 2022
  • PBS

Marie Antoinette (2022)

Season 1 Premiere: Oct 31, 2022
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
60
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 26 User Ratings
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Summary 14-year-old Marie Antoinette (Emilia Schüle) is married to future Louis XVI (Louis Cunningham) and must learn to navigate the French court and produce a male child in this drama series written by Deborah Davis. [Premiered originally in France on Canal+ on 31 Oct 2022; in the UK on BBC Two in 29 Dec 2022 and in the US on PBS on 19 Mar ...

Created By: Deborah Davis

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
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71% Mixed
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80
Jan 3, 2023
It’s good fun, and almost too much, but it works.
By Emine Saner FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 21, 2023
Marie Antoinette starts slowly but should pick up as Antoinette tries to seduce the reluctant Louie and both become monarchs.
By Joel Keller FULL REVIEW

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60
Mar 17, 2023
The dialogue is rife with anachronisms. ... Never mind a torrent of vulgarities that seem far more 21st century than 18th. ... For all the dithering—something for which Louis XVI remains famous—"Marie Antoinette" has some very solid performances, notably by Mr. Purefoy, who makes Louis XV kindly, fierce, fatherly and sexually predatory. Ms. Schüle pivots from making Marie a believable child to portraying her as a convincing court politician and schemer.
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 3, 2023
I've seen subtler versions of the ugly sisters in panto Cinderella. Yet while the drama will inevitably be picked apart by experts over cultural missteps and inaccuracies, and seems to prize style over content, I like its fresh energy.
By Carol Midgley FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 3, 2023
Schüle, pebbly brown eyes exuding less and less innocence, is highly watchable as an unloved newbie in an utterly foreign court. ... It feels more like a Versailles-themed edition of Love Island with retrofitted dialogue.
By Jasper Rees FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 17, 2023
Marie Antoinette genuinely tries to put a new spin on the life of the famous French Queen, but in trying to both do something different, and stick to what worked so well for stories that came before it, the series winds up speaking far too much and saying very little.
By Arezou Amin FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 10, 2023
The early chapters are enlivened by James Purefoy's droll take on Louis' lusty father, Louis "papa Roi" XV, and Marie's jousting with the king's possessive mistress, the fabled Madame Du Barry (Gaia Weiss). But once they're out of the picture, and the bratty new Queen turns her Petit Trianon chateau into a party palace, it's hard to muster much sympathy for these spoiled royals and their reprehensible foes. [13 - 26 Mar 2023, p.4]
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW
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Production Company:
  • Banijay Studios France
  • Beside Productions
  • Canal+
  • Capa Drama
  • Les Gens
Initial Release Date: Oct 31, 2022
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
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