The saga of King Arthur and his round furniture-loving knights has been done to death — so it’s no surprise that Starz’s new series, Camelot, changes a few key details in an attempt to inject new life into the story. While some of those tweaks are welcome (hello, Joseph Fiennes as a badass, baldheaded Merlin) others might end up rubbing Arthurites the wrong way. Here are the four main ways Camelot switches things up:
– The young Arthur himself is usually portrayed as a humble misfit — T.H. White nicknames the kid “Wart,” for Galahad’s sake. But the first time we see Camelot‘s Arthur, he’s completely naked, cheekily quoting the Bible as he macks on a bodacious blonde. Later, Arthur’s foster brother Kay exposits that Arthur is a “golden child” who’s always gotten his way. So even though Jamie Campbell Bower’s wide eyes and regrettable peach fuzz semi-stache radiate youth and inexperience, this once and future king is far from modest.
– And speaking of nudity: In the grand tradition of naked history lessons like The Tudors andSpartacus: Blood and Sand, Camelot puts the female form on display early and often. (The first time we see Guinevere, she, too, is both top- and bottom-less.) An extended sex scene between Morgan (Eva Green) and King Lot (James Purefoy), in which the scheming sorceress demands that the warlord pledge fealty to her and “say [her] name,” is particularly gratuitous.
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