REACTING TO BLACKADDER! Series 2 Episode: 5 | Canadian Reacts 

ahh that's such a great idea! I love her. (Or what I've seen of her.) Thanks! :)

As a kid I hated the first series, but watching it recently there's actually a lot to enjoy. It's definitely more subtle, and relies upon knowledge of British history to really get the most out of it. Different but still good.

@@Zappaisgod4983The first series is brilliant. It has its flaws, but also has some real gold in it. I often think that the real reason people do t like it is because it’s in a very different style. It’s not that it’s a bad show. It’s just different. I think I might be right in saying that after it was first shown it wasn’t repeated for absolute ages, and many people didn’t see it at all until 1990 when it came out on VHS, and was subsequently repeated on TV later that year. Whole new audiences found Blackadder from series 2 onwards and had never seen The Blackadder before, so it was a bit of a jolt to the system when they saw how different it was. I can definitely understand why some people don’t like it, and it was certainly weaker than the other series. I can even understand why Tony Robinson says it was a bit shit. But many of my favourite Blackadder moments come from this series and it will always have a fond place in my heart.

Yeah, I first watched Blackadder in 1989 when I was 6, the second series. Recorded every episode onto VHS and was obsessed with it. I bought series 1 in WH Smith with a Christmas voucher and was immediately disappointed haha. Thought it was boring and deeply unfunny, other than the final episode which I enjoyed possibly because of its violent ending. That feeling continued into my twenties, always thought of it as the lesser series. It's still my least favourite but I can't say it's bad like so many people do. Every time I watch it I pick up on a joke that I never noticed before. I think it's probably, script-wise, the most sophisticated. But that's not why I watch comedy, mostly :P @@GrilloTheFlightless

Hope you enjoyed my life story lol, sorry.

Ah interesting! I'll have to check out that video.. really? That's amazing! I'm a little jealous you got to act alongside Miranda Richardson not going to lie... it must have been an amazing experience!

It was, and I did fanboy a little. She made me laugh when we were supposed to be mime talking in the background. Very naughty.

She certainly is!

Practically the only kind of beer you could get in Denmark up until Carlsberg came along, was Hvidtøl (white beer, made from white malt barley). It's still being sold in large quantities around Christmas time as Juleøl in Denmark, it's very dark in color, very sweet with no real bitterness to it and with the alcohol % being less than 2.25% but usually just short of 2%, so even in this day and age it's also a favorite among children at Christmas.

That is a forgotten gem!

Oh interested! Thanks!

Thank you! 😊

Ninkasi is the Goddess of Beer and the ancestor of Eleanor of Aquitaine that gave birth to most of the European houses of royalty including Richard the Lionheart of Britain and France

Thank you! 😊