WATCHING TROY FALL: THE PODCAST

Welcome to the eighth WATCHING TROY FALL review of TROY: FALL OF A CITY.  This is my review of Episode Eight “OFFERING”. I’d love to hear your opinions, of the series, and of my reviews.  You can contact me from this website.  Jeff

Welcome to the seventh WATCHING TROY FALL review of TROY: FALL OF A CITY.  This is my review of Episode Seven “TWELVE DAYS”. In creating my reviews, I attempt to replicate what is likely your own “viewing experience”.  So, I watch the episode only once, and do not allow myself to “pause” or “replay” while...

Welcome to the sixth WATCHING TROY FALL review of TROY: FALL OF A CITY.  This is my review of Episode Six “BATTLE ON THE BEACH”. In creating my reviews, I attempt to replicate what is likely your own “viewing experience”.  So, I watch the episode only once, and do not allow myself to “pause” or...

Welcome to the fifth WATCHING TROY FALL review of TROY: FALL OF A CITY.  This is my review of Episode Five “Hunted”. In creating my reviews, I attempt to replicate what is likely your own “viewing experience”.  So, I watch the episode only once, and do not allow myself to “pause” or “replay” while watching. ...

Welcome to the fourth WATCHING TROY FALL review of TROY: FALL OF A CITY.  This is my review of Episode Four “Spoils of War”. In creating my reviews, I attempt to replicate what is likely your own “viewing experience”.  So, I watch the episode only once, and do not allow myself to “pause” or “replay”...

Welcome to the third WATCHING TROY FALL review of TROY: FALL OF A CITY.  This is my review of Episode Three “Siege”. In creating my reviews, I attempt to replicate what is likely your own “viewing experience”.  So, I watch the episode only once, and do not allow myself to “pause” or “replay” while watching. ...

Welcome to the second WATCHING TROY FALL review of TROY: FALL OF A CITY.  This is my review of Episode Two “Conditions”.   In creating my reviews, I attempt to replicate what is likely your own “viewing experience”.  So, I watch the episode only once, and do not allow myself to “pause” or “replay” while...

Welcome to the first WATCHING TROY FALL review of TROY: FALL OF A CITY.  This is my review of Episode One “Black Blood”.   In creating my reviews, I attempt to replicate what is likely your own “viewing experience”.  So, I watch the episode only once, and do not allow myself to “pause” or “replay”...

I dedicate this anticipatory episode of WATCHING TROY FALL to Helen of Troy:  in my view one of the most fascinating and “politicized” female characters in story.  I begin by noting that the “Helen stories” that a culture chooses to tell inevitably offer a revealing Rorschach (inkblot) Test on that culture’s issues, values, fears and...

In this anticipatory episode of WATCHING TROY FALL I speculate on which character from the Trojan War epic will serve the role of “sympathetic male lead” in the Netflix/BBC production TROY: FALL OF A CITY.  I first review the resumes of the major Greek contenders – Agamemnon, Menealus, Achilles and Odysseus – before concluding that...

This entire “anticipatory episode” of WATCHING TROY FALL is dedicated to history’s original weapon of mass destruction:  the Greek warlord Achilles.  Achilles is the most challenging character from the entire Trojan War Epic to “translate” to contemporary audiences.  The screenwriters (and actors) of TROY: FALL OF A CITY will encounter massive editorial and acting decisions...

In this “anticipatory episode” of WATCHING TROY FALL I explore the challenges that Netflix will face in reconciling the 3000 years old values and cultural mores of the original Trojan War Epic story, with the values and cultural mores of a 21st century television audience.  I identify the core challenge as: “What do you do...

In this episode I first offer a quick primer on Aphrodite, mistakenly assumed to be the goddess of love, but actually the goddess of lust, sexual passion and the one-night stand.  I explore her origin story, and then her “erotic” and “aphrodisiac” powers.  And I quickly review the famous stories of The Apple of Discord...

In this episode I first offer a quick primer on the Olympian Gods that dominate the Trojan War Epic story.  Gods that – unlike our modern monotheistic gods – were neither omnipotent, omnipresent, or, for that matter, particularly “good”, “moral” or even interested in we human beings.  Then I explore the myriad challenges that Netflix...