![]() ![]() ![]() With her saucer-like eyes and perfect button nose, Coleman doesn’t much resemble Victoria (or at least the version of her we’ve seen in various portraits), but she captures her transformation rather beautifully. It will surely satisfy fans of “Masterpiece.” The problem is it does little to liven up what, by now, has become a reliable period-piece formula: take a flawed but sympathetic woman, add lots of frustrating societal restraints and a brooding love interest, and bake at 350 degrees for seven to 10 episodes.Ĭoleman, best known for playing the Doctor’s companion on “Doctor Who,” is quite convincing as the young monarch. Written by Daisy Goodwin, “Victoria” is focused on themes of gender, political power and romance, and zips along divertingly. (Even if we Americans still aren’t exactly comfortable with women in the highest leadership positions.) ![]() From our modern vantage point, the seeming contradiction between unimaginable wealth and power of being a queen and the strictly circumscribed gender roles of the past is a tantalizing source of drama. ![]()
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