Well, shit.
Basically everything went down on The Musketeers tonight, so I'm going to hide the meat of the review/summary under the cut.
Slouching Towards TV got his review up ASAP, so that's who will be providing tonight's commentary.
STTV argues the show tends to falter when it gets too serious, something pretty much everyone has been saying since the start of this series. Some argue that this is an attempt to pander to a more male audience (since at the moment nearly all of
The Musketeers' fans seem to be women), others think that BBC America's involvement has led to the increase in explosions and decrease in melon-shooting good times. But either way, we can all agree that the show is at its best when it's cheesy, rather than trying to deliver a sincere or political message.
STTV, however, thinks that last week's Plague Doctor Plantarium shit-show was bad, but tonight was a vast improvement with tighter plotting and more cohesive story lines for all involved characters. I enjoyed last week's episode and while the pacing was a bit frantic, it was probably the first time that I felt really caught up in the show in weeks.
Plot-wise, this whole episode was something of a mindf*ck: after spending half the episode on a red herring about the Princess's impending wedding, they reveal that the woman posing as Princess Louise is actually a Spanish spy sent by Rochefort to take out his enemies on the King's council. Milady, who's been thrown from the palace on pain of death (which makes no sense, but whatever), winds up killing Louise in her jail cell (suspicious), but not before discovering that Rochefort is a spy. What will she do with this information??!?! (My guess: Team up with him, act as a double agent, kill him, make out with Athos -- por favor).
Meanwhile, Louise killed Constance's husband after seeing him slap Constance (for admitting that she wanted to run off with D'Artagnan), but Bonacieux managed to "curse" Constance before dying, which book fans will know is a bad f*cking sign. STTV labels Constagnan the show's most boring romance, and he's not wrong, but at this point I'm going to guess we won't have to worry about it next year (poor Tamla).
Treville nearly dies, which causes him to realize that he should just tell Porthos who is dad is (fine. whatever. anything that moves that plot along), and STTV takes a minute to snark at the fact that Hot Doc Lemay has figured out sterilization 200 years early because history doesn't matter.
In any event, where we're left at the end of this episode is: Porthos will finally meet his dad, Bonacieux is dead, Rochefort almost definitely knows about the Queen and Aramis, Milady knows Rochefort is a Spanish spy,
and Aramis knows he's sexy:
And there's still no video preview for next week because the BBC hates this show.
Source.Rate the episode and update your FMK stats, ONTD.