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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 6
Runtime: 35 min.
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Premiered: 1986

Format:

Series

Genres:

Comedy

Created By:

Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

Actors:

Miranda Richardson, Patsy Byrne, Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson

Made In:

UK

Premiered at:

BBC

Few cen­turies after the first Black Adder we are now in the 16^th cen­tury, on the court of Queen Eliz­a­beth I. Edmund Black­ad­der is now a Lord and close friend with queen. Unlike his pre­de­ces­sor, this time Edmund is intel­li­gent and good look­ing, but inside he is the same, still schem­ing and plot­ting to advance fur­ther. But, no mat­ter how dif­fer­ent Edmund seams to be, good thing is that Black­ad­der will always be Blackadder.

Cast

There were some changes in the cast. Black­ad­der and Baldrick are still here. And so is Percy. But this time we have the Queen, played by Miranda Richard­son, here nanny Nur­sie, played by Patsy Byrne and Lord Melchett, played by Stephen Fry. I think that Queen is a bit over­played and annoy­ing at times, but I think that was a gen­eral idea on how to show her. Stephen Fry is great as always.

Edmund, Baldrick and Percy

Writ­ing

As the story goes, this is maybe the weak­est in the series. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still good, but sea­sons 3 and 4 are much bet­ter. Rowan Atkin­son wasn’t involved in writ­ing process in this sea­son as he was in the first one. And end­ing of the sea­son is a sort of intro­duc­tion of the next sea­son and Hugh Lau­rie plays crazy ger­man Prince Ludwig.

Pro­duc­tion

In terms of pro­duc­tion, this sea­son is much bet­ter, and sets the stan­dard for the fol­low­ing sea­sons. Music is in style of the first sea­son. Cos­tumes are really great, and at times really over the top, but all that is done on purpose.

Con­clu­sion

Black­ad­der is really a great series, and the sec­ond incar­na­tion of Edmund is really a must see. Not the best in the series, but still bet­ter than the most come­dies you are likely to see on TV.