I love it!
However, many of those shows seem to be set in SE Asia, which is generally not the specific theatre we envision when we think of The Dark Ages, right?
For relatively recent US comedies, Season 2 of Miracle Workers, Galavant, and My Lady Jane were all pretty good. Also, Disenchanted was a pretty good animated series.
disenchanted has a fictional setting, but i guess you can consider medieval since the protagonists home kingdom is definately rooted in fantasy; which mostly has a medieval feel to it.
I think I enjoyed Cadfael but it's been a long time since I watched it and that might just be because it was occasionally one of those things a substitute teacher would put on for a class or two in high school.
Movie classes were the best. People act like its the worst sin cuz its lazy but its like, not everyone can teach you the most all the time. Its nice to be able to kick back as an educational cheat day once now and again
I never complained. Teacher would tie it in with something that we were supposed to know so we had to pay attention and write about it later on. It's one of the examples of productive laziness (which some call efficiency) I've thought about many times since.
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 354d
Here's a good resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_series_by_century_of_setting
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 354d
I love it!
However, many of those shows seem to be set in SE Asia, which is generally not the specific theatre we envision when we think of The Dark Ages, right?
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 354d
If you click the triangles next to the categories, there are some subcategories grouped by place—like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_series_set_in_5th-century_Anglo-Saxon_England
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 354d
Ah, excellent.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 353d
Methinks you were either looking at a century BC by accident, or specifically the 7th century. Although it's China stuff, not SE Asia necessarily.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 1 pts · 352d
No, I mean...
Foof
I'm European-based, for better or ze wurst.
Like-- what do we HAVE across these matters, eh?
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 354d
Added to the next in line at the top of the pile :)
jbaber@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 354d
The first Black Adder.
nagaram@startrek.website · 8 pts · 354d
If you haven't seen The Last Kingdom I heavily recommend it.
VeryVito@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 354d
For relatively recent US comedies, Season 2 of Miracle Workers, Galavant, and My Lady Jane were all pretty good. Also, Disenchanted was a pretty good animated series.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 353d
you must be referring to another Disenchanted that's not created by matt groening
VeryVito@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 353d
To be fair, I only saw a few episodes of the first season and had no expectations or notions when I stumbled on it; it seemed fine for what it was.
The other shows I mentioned, though, are actually favorites in our house.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 352d
disenchanted has a fictional setting, but i guess you can consider medieval since the protagonists home kingdom is definately rooted in fantasy; which mostly has a medieval feel to it.
VeryVito@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 352d
True enough. It seems I blew the assignment, as most of my examples are more fantasy-based than historically accurate. Still fun shows, though.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 354d
I think I enjoyed Cadfael but it's been a long time since I watched it and that might just be because it was occasionally one of those things a substitute teacher would put on for a class or two in high school.
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 354d
Movie classes were the best. People act like its the worst sin cuz its lazy but its like, not everyone can teach you the most all the time. Its nice to be able to kick back as an educational cheat day once now and again
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 354d
I never complained. Teacher would tie it in with something that we were supposed to know so we had to pay attention and write about it later on. It's one of the examples of productive laziness (which some call efficiency) I've thought about many times since.