VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

pimisi I love this series so much and could not stop watching. It's so satisfying to see how acutely the story was told and all through I was glad this was not handled by Hollywood else it would have been so far from actual events. I just can't wait for season 3.

Hitchcoc If this were a kind of fairy tale presentation, it would be a nice story. But much of this series banks on the impression that these events took place. Most of them did not. Now granted, historical fiction is always suspect, to a degree. But it would seem that the characters her were portrayed inaccurately. This series is best when it deals with the difficult issues of the time--like the Irish Potato Famine. Also, when Peele is trying to walk a tightrope in the Parliament. This episode is a Christmas story, a story about presents. A little black child is rescued from certain death and promised to the Queen. She lives with a kind family until it is time to give her up. Victoria welcomes her and is ready to adopt her. This leads to great concern, particularly from Albert. Albert gets into the Christmas spirit, bringing German customs into the castle, including trees hanging from the ceiling. There are issues with race, certainly. While the visuals are breathtaking, it seems that the producers have decided that anything goes. This could be a better series with a bit of effort.

h-kitchener It seems that most British historical movies nowadays have to be not only historically inaccurate to a great degree but must include the obligatory pederast or similar. It's frustrating for those who actually know something about the period and insulting when you realize how the series creators are attempting to change the historical record. This could have been a much better researched and accurate representation of one of Great Britain's great monarchs andose the era she lived in, but it is but a sad catering to those with little knowledge of history.

SeamusMacDuff As a professional review put it, "Very good as long as you have no expectations of historical accuracy." Exactly.Queen Victoria should be an interesting enough person that one could craft several seasons of entertainment and information. (Admittedly it might be hard to know how many seasons it would last and cover her extended reign accordingly.) However, this is "Queen Vicki" for the millennial crowd, and as written by a woman has typically strong "girl power" vibe. (Sure she had power, but as a monarch not a feminist.) The focus is on her many angsts, her romantic attachments real or imagined (i.e. Melbourne), and her relationship with a rather wimpy Albert - who in real life she loved so much that she mourned him for 10 years.Of course, Victoria has to be the most enlightened of all - even though her reign is synonymous with tightly controlled morals. She doesn't want to be a "broodmare", but in real life had nine children - child-bearing being the priority of any queen. Season two amps up the political correctness. In the opening eps we get to see a black (American?) actor giving them Othello, and a near infatuation with Ada, Countess of Lovelace (for whom the Ada programming language is named) as a female mathematician. (Although the 'calculating machine' was nearly all Charles Babbage's.) And finally a gaay angle between two dandies of the court. Why the "Upstairs Downstairs / Downton Abbey doings of the servants are part of the show is beyond me. The costumes are sumptuous, the sets and settings beautiful, and mostly classically trained actors deliver their accented lines impeccably. None of this can compensate for the poor writing or wan themes.