Benjamin Franklin struggles to get French support for the American Revolution in this new eight-episode period drama co-starring Noah Jupe and Eddie Marsan.
had a sort of global fame that’s hard to completely fathom, given a world of slow-traveling news in which “social media” took the form of arduously printed and even more arduously distributed pamphlets. He’d been a diplomat, journalist, publisher and prolific inventor, but he was more widely known for semi-apocryphal things like “inventing” electricity, as well as his mastery of glib wisdom we’d call “sound bites” today.
I completely get the writing challenges here. Paris is a long way from where the Revolutionary War is taking place and even by including Gilbert du Motier — “Marquis de Lafayette,” tocan’t find much action in this shadow diplomacy. So the series’ emphasis is on other things. Other figures who Ellis and Korder correctly recognize are worthy of notice, but probably worthy of better notice, include Romain Braud as Chevalier d’Eon, a spy and very likely a trans trailblazer; and Assaad Bouab as Pierre Beaumarchais, who might have been Franklin’s polymath peer, except that he’s treated as borderline comic relief for a few episodes and then vanishes.
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