There is much talk of the golden age of television. But it can still be a little more precise and talk about the great era of television historical dramas serialized. “You know, television and other means, the fashions are cyclical,” he recalled this newspaper writer Diana Gabaldon, head of the saga Outlander ( Forastera ), now turned into a television series that has been described as the Downton Abbey of the eighteenth century Scotland. Out by American programming shows that this time the cycle has come full force to the field of historical reenactments. Besides the two mentioned time series, the viewer can travel to more recent times as the sixties of Mad Men or worlds Masters of Sex or Manhattan , the first following the life and times of these pioneers in the study of sex you were William Masters and Virginia Johnson and the second focused on the Manhattan Project scientists and manufacture of the first nuclear bomb.
In some cases, the premium entertainment on the accuracy
the same Similarly, there are series that lead the viewer much further in time, as Vikings Da Vinci’s Demons Spartacus The Borgias or The Tudors . And others simply choose their central subject, and is the owner of major department store in London, the most popular magician in history or the father of James Bond, which maybe was serialized his life in Mr. Selfridge Houdini or Fleming , respectively. Those who previously would not have been more than biographical miniseries or TV movies are now even more so with a bow series spanning several seasons.
Those worlds that seem far turn but actually are in this . “They’re real story but where much is room for creativity. We know the facts but not humans who are connecting them, their emotions, their thoughts, “says Michelle Ashford, head of Masters of Sex and other jobs that meets history and fiction, as The Pacific or John Adams . Where appropriate, Masters of Sex is based on over a hundred hours of interviews collected in the book by Thomas Maier . But, as explained by its protagonists, Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, remains a life full of mysteries. “And our job is to know what happened in their lives,” says the first, “but we all know the end or we can look to Wikipedia coup, “added Caplan. Ashford sees” Years of History “in the lives of its two main characters, translatable in at least five seasons and confluence not only his sexuality but studies in the history of feminism, racial tensions of the century XX and the relationship of the protagonists.
Other historical dramas are less concerned with the accuracy of its historical period and pay more attention to the entertainment factor. Hence the writer and showrunner David S. Goyer prefer to use the term “historical fantasy” to describe his series, DaVinci’s Demons . “Reflecting the spirit but re-contextualize the story,” he explains of his work turning Leonardo da Vinci in a modern hero. However, the presence of a young Da Vinci, a leather jacket, which only seems to lack the bike and along the series coincides with Count Dracula (Vlad the Impaler) or live in a world where the guards wear some hats tricornios too similar to the Civil Guard has created some controversy. A Goyer did not seem to concern these minutiae. “I’m not doing a docudrama and, however much we know from history, is we do not know. And those gaps are pure gold in the hands of the writers because they give us creative license to imagine what might have been, “he adds. Judging by the renewal of their series for a third season, the public did not seem to care about this rewriting of history
Many series are worth the reconstruction of history to bring us to other worlds, a trend that has been spreading in recent times. The reasons for this are many acquired taste. At first it seems a reaction to the blockbuster increasingly separate frames of reality, past or present. A Taste facilitated by the greater access we now have television sets and as a means to digital effects that allow an accurate reconstruction of the past and manners.
However, this is not a cheap taste, as evidenced by 9.8 million per episode series that costs Manhattan, but can be paid if the audience is good. And the success of franchises such as Game of Thrones and have shown. Not that the barbarity of the novels of George R. R. Martin is part of the story we know, but it is the source from which he drank, called Wars of the Roses of England the fifteenth century. “The idea is to take the audience to unknown worlds,” he told this newspaper Ron Moore, head of the series Outlander .
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