When Prime Video announced that it would bring the novel to the big screen ‘My Lady Jane’, of Cynthia Hand, Brodu Ashton and Jodi Meadows, We thought it was a fantastic idea, as the story had all the ingredients to become one of the best premieres of the season and so it has been. The new period series fills the gap left by ‘The Bridgertons’ after the end of the third installment and becomes the best proposal for summer afternoons when you need to take shelter from the heat.
Before sitting down to watch it, it is important that you do so with an open mind, because this new Prime Video series is transgressive, funny, foul-mouthed and can be shocking due to the crazy and free reinvention of history that it makes. In this aspect it is similar to ‘The Bridgertons’ and that it has a modern spirit that is evident in its form, language and, of course, in a soundtrack that is pure rock and roll and without hiding among violins, as happens in the Netflix series.
‘My Lady Jane’ makes a very different portrait of the British monarchy, emphasizing the romantic, adventurous part and adding a touch of magic to the plot, since in this story there are real people and others who seem so, but who actually have the ability to transform themselves. in animals and are considered demonic beings. In this new version of what he was, Edward VI, son of monarch Henry XVIII, does not die from tuberculosis, Jane Grey (Emily Bader), The protagonist of this series is not beheaded, nor is her husband. Guildford (Edward Bluemel), whom she is forced to marry, despite feeling an uncontrollable attraction towards him.
Jane is not a damsel who needs to be saved, she is brave and fights to escape from conventions and have her own space, something that the female protagonists of ‘The Bridgertons’, like Penelope in her most prominent feminist moment of this season. Despite being forced to go through the altar, she does not give up her essence and must face a series of conspiracies and villains who want to finish her off. While in reality Jane Grey was queen for just over a week and lost her head in the guillotine, here things are very different…
The most purists with the true story may feel uncomfortable with this Lady Jane, but those looking for a different period series, in which its characters say bad words and are fun caricatures, will love it. Everything that happens is narrated by a voice-over, whose comments are scathing and help to lighten the mood. Here there is a black king, a mother reminiscent of the Featherington matriarch and high-voltage scenes, as in the competing fiction.
Of course, everything takes place in attractive settings and the entire cast shines with their performances and beautiful costumes. But the important thing is that what it tells is enjoyable and different, becoming ‘My Lady Jane’, without a doubt, in one of the most addictive series of recent times, incapable of leaving anyone indifferent, for better and for worse.
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Marieta Taibó is current affairs and culture editor at Cosmopolitan and a film and television series expert for more than a decade. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her in front of the screen analyzing the latest releases from Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, Disney+ and the rest of the streaming platforms to recommend those interesting or killer titles. Between criticism and television fiction news, interviews with actors. In his recorder you will find talks from his interviews with Blanca Suárez, Mario Casas, Úrsula Corberó, Ana de Armas, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Lily Collins, yes, ‘Emily in Paris’ or Christina Hendricks, the redhead from ‘Mad Men’ , to name a few names. Off screen, in addition, she will recommend the best leisure and gastronomic plans. In other professional stages, she has also written about fashion and beauty. In fact, she is the author of the essay ‘The secret face of the beauty business’, from the Almuzara publishing house. Marieta Taibo has a degree in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid and has a Higher Course in Fashion and Luxury Marketing and Communication from Elle magazine and the Complutense University. Her first steps as an editor were in the economics section of La Clave current affairs magazine until she made the leap to society and culture, her true passion. Later, she worked at El Confidencial, and then at the women’s magazine AR as coordinator of the cultural agenda and head of the film section. From there, she made the jump to the magazines Supertele and TP and spent ten years there writing about films and series, work that she combined as a contributor to Babylon Magazine doing in-depth reports on culture, until she arrived at Cosmopolitan six years ago.
