On other Neil Oliver programmes I thought I noticed and found it rather irritating and distracting that he seemed to have a verbal predeliction for blood, relishing and embellishing its pronunciation extending it to two distinct syllables - Ber-Ludd.
Here, he adds visuals, graphic visuals of blood, pools of blood, even super slow motion of a gobbet of blood falling into pool of blood and raising the familiar crown which collapses back into the pool. I looked away and cut the sound. Resuming watching 10 minutes later again more pools of dripping blood.
I am not squeamish, I can watch any operation on TV. Its a matter of style and emphasis. I am guessing that his fan base likes his Penny Dreadful - sensational graphic lurid illustrated 19th C adult crime comics - verbal and visual style. Obviously he's a fairly serious historian talking about a violent hence bloody age. He is, in his relish for this one topic, without equal or even competitor.
