Beowulf Return To The Shieldlands Review
Return to the shieldlands promises a fun ride ahead.
Beowulf return to the shieldlands review. Return to the shieldlands episode 2 review reviews encouragingly beowulf. Beowulf is a british epic fantasy drama television series broadcast by itv it was created by james dormer tim haines and katie newman. Return to the shieldlands is a light excursion for wider audience with more colorful presentation although the cumbersome plot and sloppy cg might undermine that effort. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users.
Return to the shieldlands may begin with a copycat title sequence but it quickly stands on its own feet as a swashbuckling tale of a young hero who battles giant vicious creatures. At first second third and probably fourth glance esquire network s new mini series beowulf. Return to the shieldlands second episode has our reviewer wanting to come back for more. Return to the shieldlands may seem like a cheaper version of hbo s game of thrones.
19 out of 32 found this helpful. Return to the shieldlands photograph. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for beowulf. Beowulf returns to his homeland of herot in the shieldlands to pay his respects to deceased king hrothgar william hurt.
Return to the shieldlands is a new british series that aired on esquire network inspired by the anglo saxon poem beowulf fans of the famous epic will not recognize the newly designed story that creator james dormer has woven as many of the known characters and events of the poem have been either altered or removed completely. Created by james dormer. On they scrabbled kieran bew in the title role of beowulf. With kieran bew joanne whalley ed speleers laura donnelly.
Itv war and peace s budget came in at 28 000 a minute and for that we got the river. The initial title sequence is shockingly similar some of the supporting cast are clearly based off established figures in got and our hero is a raven haired bastard son of a powerful leader. Dormer wrote the series based on the poem beowulf and executive produced it along with haines and newman while stephen smallwood produced the series.