Lettera al re

Changing my review after watching the last episode. Show fell apart.

Good acting from the horse, and that is the only good acting you see in this show.

While this show is directed at a young audience and one wouldn't expect anything deep or serious, there is really no excuse for the boring and predictable plot. The villain is a cardboard cutout spouting generic villain lines and has a nonsensical stupid plot. The main character is a boring cliche, some of the side characters are good but not enough to add anything unique. The locations used are great and the show is somewhat visually pretty, but it all feels wasted. Also, I never thought I'd complain about fantastical elements as fantasy is my favorite genre, but the magic felt like a tedious add on to the story which would have worked much better without, as I'm given to understand that was the case in the book so straying from the source material was a mistake here.

Letter to the King has been chosen to be the all-time most popular Dutch children book in the Netherlands. This is quite a remarkable feat, because youth literature in the Netherlands is of high quality.

The book is a coming-of-age story. A young man is asked to fulfill a dangerous quest on the night he is supposed to meditate on the duties of knighthood and should not speak for that knight, praying in a chapel and has to pray.

Then comes the knock on the door and the key-sentence: 'in the name of God, help me.' And Tiuri has to decide at app. page 2 what he has to do, give up his dream of becoming a knight by breaking his vows, or stay put.

What this series has to do with the book is a riddle.

The idea of suggesting that this series has anything to do with the book is a pure disgrace.

But hey, we're only in it for the money now aren't we.

Very pretty.

Everyone is scripted to be an idiot.

Really childish.

Could have been really good,