Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin My Lady Jane Credit: Amazon I wasn’t sure if I’d be the target audience for Prime Video’s new period romance My Lady Jane and I admit that in the first few minutes I considered turning it off and watching something else. But I’m glad I didn’t. I’ve now watched the first two episodes of the season and it’s surprisingly entertaining, though I have a few nits to pick.
This is guilty-pleasure TV, pure and simple. I’m hooked. The series, created by Gemma Burgess and based on the novel by Jodi Meadows, Brodi Ashton and Cynthia Hand, stars Emily Bader as Lady Jane Grey, Edward Bluemel as Lord Guildford Dudley and Jordan Peters as the sickly Edward VI.
The supporting cast includes Jim Broadbent, Rob Brydon, Anna Chancellor along with plenty of other talented actors. Our tale begins not long after the death of King Henry VIII, the Tudor king famous for his many wives, his break with the Roman Catholic Church and formation of the Church of England, and his general ill-temper. But this is a fantasy version of England in which people called Ethians live.
Ethians can change into their animal form at will, though each one only has one form. Regular people—known as Verity—do not possess this magic but they do make the laws and have effectively cast out the Ethians from society, banishing them into the wilderness, though many remain and a group called The Pack has taken up banditry and other outlaw practices. The series.
