Secrets of Great British Castles

I hope to visit the UK in the next year or so. I thought this series might help me to decide which castles to visit. I'm not sure why this series goes so seriously off the rails. Each episode is a deep-dive history lesson, with a castle in the backdrop. Few interiors are shown, and when they are, just for a few seconds. The episodes go into the history of the kings, nobles, and wars associated with each one. Exterior shots are shown, so I'm not sure if filming rights weren't in place or what the issue is. Warwick castle and Leeds castle are decent episodes for those wanting to actually see castles. The rest are about the kings, wars, murders associated with the area and the castle.

This show is not about castles. It's about some of the people that lived in them, or had them build. While it goes on and on about these people, it has sweeping views of a castle.

I wish after watching this show I could say I now know about the castles but unfortunately, not.

This series is great! The initial description leaves out one of the most famous castles of all time though. Lets NOT forget Edinburgh Castle!! That particular episode is very well done as is each episode aired.

I was eager to watch this as I've always been a castle and history enthusiast. And it has introduced me to some interesting castles that I knew little about. But frankly I was left quite disappointed by most of the episodes.

The main problem with the series is the presenter. Dan Jones is probably a perfectly good historian, but he is absolutely laughable as a tv presenter. His presentation style is so awkward and uncharismatic that you often wonder if you're watching an episode of Alan Partridge. It's genuinely quite cringe-inducing to watch him saunter about in this leather jacket he never seems to take off, standing in awkwardly staged poses with endless closeups of his gormless face staring "dramatically" at walls while he tries very hard (and again, awkwardly fails) to deliver his script in an engaging fashion. Needless to say, whatever the quality of the documentary content, this constant distraction subtracts quite a lot.

And sadly, the documenary side of things is quite lacking as well. For a show called Secrets of British Castles, the episodes often say remarkably little about the actual castles themselves. Instead what you mostly get is a very surface-level introduction to a few disconnected kings or nobles that lived in them and a few key events in their history. Nothing wrong with that per se but it just doesn't go far enough to get a real sense of the places.

Wasn't sure what to expect As I have not really watched This kind iff tv show before But I like my history the older I get I wasn't interested in school tbh

I read a few reviews and I have only watched the first episode But actually quite impressed with this series If u like history u should enjoy this,