My odyssey of new shows in February that started airing in January continues with Britannia. It is every bit as competent as you'd expect from the people who decided this would be an appropriate theme tune to the show:
Whereas Mosaic was intentionally breaking convention and creating a less linear narrative Britannia does it through ineptitude. For a show that wants so badly to be Game of Thrones it learned nothing from that show introductory episode. Specifically the bit about it being introductory as in supposed to introduce you to the characters, setting, and plot. Instead the opening episodes spends 30 minutes jumping from location to location, and character to character spending so little time with each that you do not know who or what you are supposed to care about. And I didn't care about anything.
Adding to that is a rafter of decisions that are just downright terrible; let's shoot a good quarter of our first episode with vaseline on the lens, let's have terrible editing not just structurally but also moment to moment (e.g. in action scenes), let's have terrible dialogue, let's have a terrible child actor as one of the main characters, let's use that terrible child actor and try and create a mis-matched road adventure like Arya and The Hound with the two "bantering" with aforementioned terrible dialogue, and then you have how the show handles nudity (only objectifies the women).
It is trash.
It is nonsense.
It is incompetent.
It is worse than Starz' Camelot
And I'm probably going to binge all of it.
