#Victoria2 @VictoriaSeries @DaisyGoodwin @masterpiecepbs #SmallScreenScenes #WhomYouKnow A woman’s place is on the throne: Victoria, Season 2 Starring the Incredibly Talented Jenna Coleman @Jenna_Coleman_ as the young queen, wife, and mother in an all-new season of Victoria Premieres January 14, 2018 on MASTERPIECE on PBS & is Highly Recommended by Whom You Know @TillySteele @FredrikSewell @ferdosnandos
It's not who you know, it's WHOM YOU KNOW.
You know that by now.
We don't know Jenna Coleman (but we'd like to!), and we were born too late to know Queen Victoria. But we DID attend University College Cork, and left with this book:
Peachy Deegan has pretty good recollection of what she's read, and we remember Queen Victoria visiting UCC before cameras existed from reading this book:
So...we were absolutely thrilled to see Cork featured in Season Two. And there you have it-it is in the history books straight from your favorite human history major! Up Cork! We believe Queen Victoria was born too early to fully appreciate the hockey season at the Mardyke with Emma, Gillian, Caroline and more. We saw Season One, however, we are far more impressed with Victoria Season Two. Usually it is the other way around, and we can't remember another series seen recently where we loved the second season more (but we probably would love The Last Post Season Two even more especially with more Baxter so someone should start filming that please, by yesterday).
Jenna Coleman is immensely talented and her screen presence and delivery is reason alone to watch this series. Her chemistry with Prince Albert is testament to the quality casting work that went into this, and we think she was way ahead of her time in fashion. She is wearing the Pantone color of the year to travel to Paris, though they might not have used the name ultraviolet. In the lack of information in the Victorian era, Victoria herself possessed the intelligence and compassion to care for those in her kingdom when the overall society seemed clueless. The value of correspondence by Dr. Trail, the Parson from Cork, was a touching element of this series and we don't think you need to have been a Cork resident to appreciate this relationship.
From a production standpoint, all areas of scenery are immensely beautiful and gorgeous and for everyone that loved Downton Abbey, you in particular will appreciate the surroundings. And when we saw Jenna Coleman's acting picture without the blue eyes, we found out it took three weeks to make her brown eyes blue (Crystal don't worry it is Victoria Jenna, not you). You can see her eyes are brown when she's drawing by the water right after she was nearly assassinated.
Other convincing characters include Lord Melbourne, Chef Charles Francatelli (of course we love the chef) and Cleary, played by Tilly Steele. We were highly entertained throughout, and just adore the historical aspects of Victoria 2. The seemingly timeless battle between Catholics vs. Protestants is part of this, and you'll see Victoria 2 is the best commercial ever for darning socks and cooking fireside.
Need more reasons to watch this? Men in Kilts (Murphy Boyle's mom, we're talking to you) and there is even a trip to Scotland for Victoria, complete with bagpipes.
Victoria 2 is Highly Recommended by Whom You Know.
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Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who) returns for a new season as the
young queen who wants it all—romance, power, an heir, and personal freedom—on Victoria,
Season 2, airing in seven episodes created and scripted by bestselling novelist
Daisy Goodwin
(The Fortune Hunter), premiering January 14, 2018 on
MASTERPIECE on PBS.
More than 16.2 million viewers tuned in for Victoria’s
premiere season, making it the
highest-rated drama on PBS in 20 years—second only to Downton
Abbey.
Joining the cast in the new season is legendary actress Dame Diana
Rigg (Game of Thrones, The Avengers), who plays the Duchess of
Buccleuch, the court’s new Mistress of the Robes—a fount of old-fashioned good
sense for the queen, who is now in the throes of motherhood.
Tom Hughes (Dancing on the Edge) stars as the queen’s
smoldering consort, Prince Albert. Also returning from last season are Rufus
Sewell (Man in the High Castle) as Lord Melbourne, Victoria's first
Prime Minister and intimate friend, Nell Hudson (Outlander) as Nancy
Skerrett, newly promoted to the queen’s chief dresser, whose secrets are yet to
be revealed, and Ferdinand Kingsley (Borgia) as Charles Francatelli, the
royal chef whose love for Nancy was spurned at the end of Season 1.
Victoria’s first season, focusing on the teenage queen’s
audacious upstaging of her
handlers to chart her own path, delighted TV critics. The
Hollywood Reporter called Victoria “thoroughly enjoyable and
addictive.” “Royally entertaining,” proclaimed
The San Francisco Chronicle, and “a sparkling gem,” said The
New York Post. “Victoria is a victory,” declared The Tampa Bay
Times.
And, of course, the costumes and settings enchanted all: “A lavish
production with
impeccable period details,” penned Newsday.
Victoria’s new season sees the return of Nigel Lindsay (Rome)
as Sir Robert Peel, the reforming British prime minister, at odds with his
sovereign over policy; Catherine Flemming (No Place to Go) as the
Duchess of Kent, Victoria’s manipulative mother, still battling her headstrong
daughter; and Peter Bowles (To the Manor Born) as the Duke of
Wellington, the hero of the Battle of Waterloo, now a retired prime minister
and sage mentor to the queen.
Also back are Adrian Schiller (Beauty and the Beast) as
Penge, the irascible head steward at the palace; Daniela Holtz (The Forest
for the Trees) as Baroness Lehzen, Victoria’s devoted governess since
birth; and David Oakes (The White Queen) as Prince Ernest, Albert’s
debauched older brother, who becomes Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on the death
of their equally promiscuous father, played by Andrew Bicknell (The Royals).
Season 2 finds Victoria adapting to motherhood after the birth of her first child, a daughter (to the disappointment of many). Meanwhile, the disaster of the Anglo-Afghan War unfolds abroad, and the catastrophic Irish potato famine begins to wreak havoc. In other foreign affairs, a royal state visit to France is in the offing. Most intriguing to Prince Albert is the budding Industrial Revolution, which is now sweeping England. There is Charles Babbage’s mechanical calculator, a collaborative project with the bewitching Ada Lovelace, daughter of the scandalous Lord Byron. Then there is William Fothergill Cooke’s miraculous electrical telegraph, not to mention Marc Isambard Brunel’s daring—and dangerous—Thames Tunnel.
What an extraordinary time to be Queen!
Victoria, Season 2 is a co-production of Mammoth Screen and MASTERPIECE. It is created, written and executive produced by Daisy Goodwin. It is being executive produced by Mammoth Screen Managing Director Damien Timmer, Kate McKerrell (Lost In Austen) and once again produced by Paul Frift (Room At The Top) for Mammoth Screen. Rebecca Eaton is the Executive Producer for MASTERPIECE, presented by WGBH Boston. Directors for the series are Lisa James Larsson (Striking Out), Geoffrey Sax (Tipping The Velvet), Jim Loach (Oranges And Sunshine) and Daniel O'Hara (The Game). Victoria is distributed internationally by ITV Studios Global Entertainment.
