Victoria (TV Series) London Bridge Is Falling Down (2019) User Reviews

The Chartists Get Their Due

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 21 January 2019]

Victoria is having trouble with the people at her gates. She is sympathetic to their rights. She also realizes that the administration is doing underhanded thing to make the Chartists look bad in order to put them down. There are also things going on within the palace that make her underlings look suspicious. Louis Phillip is still there, undermining her authority in his braggadocio. This series makes Victoria seem rather saintly and that may be stretching things a bit. We are also brought into Bertie's world. He is going to be a problem from now on.

London Bridge is Falling Down

[bobcobb301 · 7/10 · 1 March 2019]

This show gave us another solid hour of TV here. I didn't feel like it dragged at any point and it is easy to follow along what is going on.

There is not a lot of buzz around this show in the US which is unfortunate as it deserves it.

History, but not as we know it.

[Bert45 · 21 February 2019]

I think that Queen Victoria's life was dramatic and colourful enough without the writer of this series re-imagining historic events to elevate the Queen's reputation even further. This episode, set in the 1848 "Year of Revolutions" across Europe supposedly has Victoria personally and defiantly giving orders to her ministers to defuse the tension of the Chartists' march of April 10. In reality, the Queen and the Royal Family had already been packed off to the Isle Of Wight two days before the march took place. The marchers were not met by armed troops on Waterloo Bridge but by police and special constables on Westminster Bridge. It was not the Duke Of Wellington who gave the instruction to let the marchers pass, but London Police Commissioner Richard Mayne, who negotiated for the Chartist leaders to take their petition to Parliament across Westminster Bridge in three hired hansom cabs, while the bulk of the crowd remained behind. The whole event fizzled out in pouring rain and the demonstrators dispersed by 2pm. Increasingly, the series Victoria should be seen as entertainment - not history.

The two faces of Albert

[fh_3 · 6/10 · 5 June 2020]

Overall - a bit overdone. Victoria was kit at risk on 1848. And her sister is a slimy as her mother. But Albert - so much drama about "we have failed this people" but look, I built a huge Italian Renaissance House complete with nude paintings in the bathing room.