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Nimue and Arthur.
The vast English valleys are beautiful, and some photographs evoke co-creator Frank Miller’s comics – Sin City, three hundred and the graphic novel on which the series is based. But unfortunately, Cursed’s greatest curse comes down to his main character.
The series, after all, fails its young female protagonist, who has all the cold promise of a sword-wielding heroine destined to lead her other peoples to freedom. Instead, Nimue turns into romance and absurd decision-making, with no genuine personality that we must shine like a hard-liner she claims to be.
Note: minor spoilers are to come.
We begin when Nimue (13 Reasons Why Katherine Langford) is determined to be escondido’s next summoner. The role is to protect other druids through their gift to appeal to the elements.
Instead, Nimue rejects the position, calling it a curse. She deplores her other parents for expelling her after a demonic encounter that marked her physically and mentally since childhood.
Pym and Nimue.
With the most productive comedian friend Pym (Lily Newmark), Nimue heads to the docks, but still picking up the next envoy, they find Arthur, played through Devon Terrell – the first black actor to play the role. Array
Like the most legendary-named characters that seem in the series, Arthur has some quirks that mark him as others than we have seen historically. In addition to a lovely voice that makes a song, it is a towed knight who enchants Nimue, riding a tale of love that in the end lacks original moments to win the flying sparks.
When the Red Paladins, magic-hating church agents, invade the village of Nimue, she is tasked with bringing the sword of force to Merlin (Gustaf Skarsgord of the Vikings). But Merlin is not the most productive of his magic, drinking his sorrows of doing what his boss, a Uther Pendragon, asks him to do.
Politics between kings, adding Viking leader Ice King and warrior queen Red Spear, swarmed in the background and soon engulfed Nimue. She will also have to do what to do with the “damn” sword of strength that everyone wants. Those who hold it can feel its dark history, involving many severed heads, causing them to question their own intentions.
While it’s refreshing to see Nimue give up her classic antagonistic role and do more than just hand Excalibur over to Arthur, she takes a wrong step in the same way as Daenerys Targaryen. After moving from a naïve queen to a devout figure who inspires the oppressed, Nimue has gathered in a situation that takes away all this triumph.
Katherine Langford as Nimue.
It’s frustrating, after watching her grow the series. Finally accepting her duty as fey leader, she made some key decisions that bore fruit and, above all, brought together the Fey tribes of the wooded area type. She even earned a memorable name as the Wolfblood witch.
But then she throws the sword into a ravine of sudden rage, and a character calls her for being irrationally “pleurnichard”. She never takes an episode with a mentor to explore the limits of her infrequent magic or gets a moment of triumph to bite her demons. Worse, she is confined to the sidelines in the final war to save her other peoples and avoid “the age of men.”
Nimue dips her foot to become the hero you need to be with a moment of pumping Wonder Woman at the end of the first episode. However, despite his intriguing turn over a mythical figure, Cursed leaves no lasting impact. Too long and thin, he digs up his concentrated pace and his environment of some others fades as Game of Thrones’ surface policy fades. The exhibition is set for a momentary season, however the most attractive facets of its history already seem to be her.
Cursed is now to be had on Netflix.