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CRITIQUE – Straight loves, time trips… This prologue series brilliantly resumes the ingredients of initial fiction.
Get derived series is the curse of successful sagas. The Walking Dead , Game of Thrones , Dexter , Bridgerton … Inspiration is not always there. But when lightning strikes in the same place, pleasure and rapture are increased tenfold. This is the case with Blood of My Bloodbroadcast on HBO Max, who imagines the tumultuous youth of the parents of the heroes of Outlander.
For a decade and seven seasons (available on Netflix), Outlandertaken from the novels of Diana Gabaldon, evokes the torments of the XVIIIe century (Scottish revolts and American independence war). She associates them with the passionate romance which unites, through space and eras, the Highlander Jamie Fraser and his wife, Claire, nurse of the Second World War traveling in time.
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In Scotland of 1714
Taking up the same ingredients (passion that moves mountains, Scottish accents to cut with a knife, sublime landscapes and castles), Blood of My Blood Going up a generation and focusing on the parents of Jamie and Claire. In Scotland of 1714, Ellen Mackenzie replayed Romeo and Juliet From Shakespeare and falls in love with Brian Fraser, adulterous son of the rival clan. In 1917, Sergeant Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine, War horse) Increase correspondence with the young Julia. These missives, which describe the hell of the trenches and the damage of post-traumatic stress, upset the Londonian working in the service of censure of mail.
Quickly, Blood of My Blood merges chronologies. Henry and Julia, like their daughter, are propelled two centuries back, in a position to influence the idyll between Ellen and Brian and to change the course of the history of their descendants like that of the century. Separated during their teleportation, these defectors are not housed in the same brand. The first becomes the counselor of a clan. The second is a domestic in a house where the right of cooking is essential. What complicate the reunion for a desperate Henry who moves heaven and earth.
As sensual as his mother series, Blood of My Blood sharing “The same DNA in her reflection on love, lack, separation, what we are ready to risk for those we love or for what we covet. Power is also a major concern of Ellen’s brothers ”summarizes, with justice, Harriet Slater, the interpreter of Ellen, whose family is in the midst of a succession of succession. A conquering and assumed romantic and romantic breath, which has become rather rare on the small screen.
Another success, to appreciate Blood of My Blood : no need to be an exegetes ofOutlander, Even if faces well known to spectators reappear. This Prologue series delivers a catchy plot and is also addressed to novices and curious people. Blood of My Blood Depicted, with meticulousness, the context of the Jacobite rebellions against the English crown, while reveling in the intestine struggles between Scottish lords as of the complex code of honor which governs them.
