Blackadder - Season 2 (1986)
Alternative title: The Black Adder
IMDb score:
8,0 (44.271)
Episodes: 6
Playing time: 3 hour
Developed by: Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson and Ben Elton
Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Tim McInnerny and Tony Robinson
Origin:
United Kingdom / Australia
Releasedate: Thursday 9 January 1986
First aired on: BBC One (Verenigd Koninkrijk)
This season is not available on US streaming services.
Actors and Actresses
Captain Edmund Blackadder
Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh
Private S. Baldrick
King Richard IV
Queen Elizabeth I
Captain Kevin Darling
General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
The Queen
Minstrel
Harry Prince of Wales
Narrator
Nursie
Mrs. Miggins
Reviews & comments
AOVV
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Very entertaining second season of Blackadder, and above all a lot better and sharper than the first. Rowan Atkinson plays a very strong Edmund Blackadder here, as slimy as it is cynical and hypocritical. Tim McInnerny is also very good as the dumb, effeminate Percy and Tony Robinson does a great job as human footsweep Baldrick.
In addition, we also get three other important side characters, who add a lot, and the occasional hilarious guest role. Yet it is Blackadder himself who steals the show in these six tasty episodes.
4 stars
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rcuppen79
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Second season of the hit British TV series Black Adder. After the high costs of the first season, the costs for this second season were significantly reduced. This is noticeable in the sets and the smaller cast. The humor also differs from the previous season and is a lot sharper this time with many witty dialogues.
Rowan Atkinson is once again on a roll as the false Lord BlackAdder. In addition, there are extremely comedic supporting roles from Stephen Fry as Lord Melchett, Tony Robinson as Baldrick and Tim McInnery as Percy. However, the show is stolen by Miranda Richardson as the crazy Queen Elizabeth I.
Rowan Atkinson co-created the first season, but on the second season he handed over his duties to stand-up comedian Ben Elton, who co-wrote the screenplays for this second season with Richard Curtis. The humor is a lot more successful than in the first season. The third season appeared two years later.
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Dievegge
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In this second season, Blackadder is more intelligent and cunning than in the first, but his social status is already slightly lower. It's a mystery why he's employing the oily-dumb Percy and Baldrick. Skilled staff are apparently hard to find.
The sixteenth century was a flourishing time for England, with voyages of discovery and Elizabethan theatre. “Virgin Queen” Elizabeth I has a sympathetic image in the history books, but she had Catholics persecuted and alleged traitors beheaded - enough material for satire. Miranda Richardson portrays her as a childish, fickle despote. Stephen Fry turns the Lord Chamberlain into a yes-man. Some secondary characters will return in another incarnation, such as the megalomaniac Lord Flashheart and the hermaphrodite Bob - a name that Rowan Atkinson pronounces in a funny way.
The dialogues contain a lot of nonsense, sharp retorts, false rhetoric and deliberate anachronisms. An cash flow problem is not an expression a sixteenth-century duke would use, but a yuppie in the 1980s. Costumes and wigs are inspired by paintings from that time. Favorite episodes: 2 and 3.
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