Belgravia: The Next Chapter

The actor who played the lead Fredrick was so wooden, so robotic...just terrible. There's a scene where he tries to cry and I laughed out loud. Other than that sad moment when I'm sure he tried picturing a puppy getting run over by a steamroller, he showed only one emotion the entire season. I get he was trying to play impenetrable and unassailable, but it came off as stiff fence post. Community college acting 101. So, so bad. My Alexa has more personality and allure than this guy.

And while the lead actress played with much more range there was zero chemistry between her and Fredrick. Zero.

Every other actor played with depth and charm and personality. It's too bad...would've been much more compelling with different leads. What a waste of their talent.

Belgravia Was awesome. But this part 2, the next Chapter is a poor follow up.

Sadly, I find the next chapter, extremely depressing, extremely slow, not as polished, overall extremely considered this failure.

With the next chapter being so poor, I cannot see this being renewed for a third season, which is so disappointing after the first season was so great.

It's not often that you completely destroy a series like they have here with the sequel to the original. So disappointed the lead character is either a really bad actor or his character. He's completely flawed.

After watching four episodes now, I don't even see the point of this season with him being just miserable, and we all know that he isn't the legitimate child and air. It is actually his brother if you've watched the first season

disappointing. Overall, I suggest you avoid.

After thoroughly enjoying the original series of 'Belgravia' (a solid 8/10 miniseries, arguably 9/10), I was hopeful that most of the negative reviews of "Belgravia: The Next Chapter" would be wrong, or at least a bit exaggerated. Alas, the negative reviews are more right than wrong, and this second season is yet another example of a great show taking a massive step down from a successful first season.

It was always going to be a tough task to match the clever, rewarding, and intelligent writing of the first season, but "The Next Chapter" falls short of even the above average level of writing of well-produced shows of the modern era of entertainment. The main plot line and the character arcs of the two leads is just not very interesting, especially from about the 3rd or 4th episode on. While season one seemed too short and had you begging for more at six episodes, this second season tests your patience at eight episodes in which little seems to happen half the time. You know a writer is completely clueless when they start portraying the 1871 Paris Commune in a positive light (the best era in Paris's history, the Belle Epoque, only happened thanks to the failing of said evil Commune, not to mention that the same ideology that the Commune spouted would go on to kill 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 more people than fascism in the 20th century). The side plots are eye-rollingly predictable at best. So how does it even earn a review this high? Mainly because of the great production, excellent cinematography, and wonderful acting, especially by Harriet Slater. While other positive reviews here credit the 'victim' plot line, the reality is that the focus on victims has created a culture in which every struggling person pretends to be a victim in every way possible, causing their mental state to deteriorate. Similarly, our main male lead sulks, acts petulant, and behaves like a prick and uses his so-called 'victim' status as an excuse. Overall, this is a very skippable season of television, although not a total disaster.

I'm a (very) latecomer to period dramas. "Downton" had long since finished before I began to tackle the 50+ episodes and what a treat that turned out to be. It would be asking a lot for any series to be its equal or even come close but one that really impressed was "The Gilded Age".

I have not seen the original "Belgravia" for the simple reason that I had never heard of it but will find it to watch.

This latest "Next Chapter" seems to be taking a lot of flak from what appear to be seasoned period drama viewers so who am I to argue?........but I will. I thoroughly enjoyed it and the final two episodes were extremely moving.

I found all of the characters to be interesting in their own way and, of course, anything with a music score by John Lunn is always worth watching.

Belgravia was written by Julian Fellow and his attention to details was visible everywhere. It wasn't perfect, but it was interesting, the actors were good, the time period well presented. But this New Chapter feels like a high school play. The actor playing Frédéric Trenchard is so bad! The costumes are awful, again it looks like a mom took whatever look like from before 1900 and dressed the characters with it, with no research of the specific period. So there is costume from the Elizabethan period (16th century) mixed with the early Victorian (1840'). The characters display 21st century values and attitude. It could be funny if it was a spoof but it's not supposed to be. Neither is it a period-fantasty like Bridgerton. I can't understand how Julian Fellow accepted to have is name associated to it. Did he lost a bet?