Television review: This newly decanted Decameron succeeds only in laying bare the chasm between good and bad television
The Decameron review: Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson battles ridiculous hipster haircut in unfunny rompThe idea for Netflix’s extravagantly bawdy updating of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Renaissance dramedy, The Decameron, came to showrunner Kathleen Jordan during the darkest days of the pandemic.
The Decameron review: Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson battles ridiculous hipster haircut in unfunny rompTV licence fee to stay unchanged but viewers may see impact on RTÉ services A rare exception is Derry Girls’ star Saoirse-Monica Jackson, who plays Misia, handmaid to irritating aristocrat Pampinea . Jackson does her best, but she is up against a ridiculous proto-hipster haircut and a script that asks her to do little beyond scowl and throw resentful daggers towards her mistress – who has come to marry the master of the house .
Jordan works hard to keep the mood playful and spruces the soundtrack with modern pop. But even here, the lack of subtlety is frustrating. When a handmaid shoves her mistress off a bridge and steals her identity, the soundtrack strikes up with Master and Servant by Depeche Mode. It’s yet another annoying flourish in a show to be avoided like the plague.
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