PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON 18TH CENTURY PARIS SET HISTORICAL SERIES DANGEROUS LIAISONS WITH CHARACTER PHOTOS AND NEW TRAILER

 DANGEROUS LIAISONS SERIES 

THIS ISN'T LOVE! IT'S WAR

The show starts November 6th on Starz

After the embarrassingly atrocious Becoming Elizabeth which shares, together with The House of Dragon, the title of year's biggest borefest so far,  Starz did redeem itself a bit with the fun and dynamic The Serpent Queen, but will they dig themselves back into the new depths of dullness with DANGEROUS LIAISONS, the new adaptation of the 1700s Paris set novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, which arrives November 6th? Well, judging by the bleak casting, especially the lifeless and mediocre female lead, I probably won't even give it a go, but you might think differently, so the spy is presenting you the show today. Of course, probably nobody expects that this could come anywhere near the Oscar winning movie from 1988 which, directed by Stephen Frears, starred Glenn Close, John Malkovish, and Michelle Pfeiffer! You can check out a new trailer below the post.

  DANGEROUS LIAISONS IS

actually not a direct adaptation but a prelude of Laclos’ classic 18th-century novel focusing on the origin story of how his iconic characters, the Marquise de Merteuil (the godawful Alice Englert) and the Vicomte de Valmont (Nicholas Denton), met as passionate young lovers in Paris on the eve of the revolution. This modern take on a classic story takes audiences through wonder and terror, beauty and degradation, seduction and deception in pre-revolutionary Paris. Driven to right the wrongs of their past, the young couple’s survival depends on their skills of seduction and manipulation of not only the French nobility but of each other. The current Marquise de Merteuil (Lesley Manville) navigates her own path in a world of men, using the power of secrets to take back control, and Valmont who will stop at nothing to regain his title that was recently taken from him. Their on- again off-again love story is the heart of the series

WHO ELSE IS IN DANGER?

The new series which will air its eight episodes weekly from November 6th and streaming on Starz app and Hulu, will also star Kosar Ali who brings in the forced diversity element as Victoire, Camille’s best friend and partner in crime; Carice van Houten as Jacqueline de Montrachet, a pious noblewoman with a mysterious connection to our heroine; and Paloma Faith as the fiery Florence de Regnier, a stalwart of the French court. Hilton Pelser, Fisayo Akinade, Michael McElhatton, Nathanael Saleh, Colette Dalal Tchantcho, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, and Tom Wlaschiha also appear in the series shot lat year in Czech republic.