My Lady Jane

Matt Roush says...

The streamer has coined a phrase new to me — “romantasy” — to try to describe this irreverent, wacky and lusty twist on a Tudor-era costume drama. Ignoring actual history from the first profane utterances of its insistent narrator, My Lady Jane imagines an alternate reality in which the rebelliously independent Lady Jane Grey (the terrific Emily Bader) is not headed toward a beheading during the bloody post-Henry VIII transition. Though she resists being forced into a marriage (to Edward Bluemel’s swaggering Guildford Dudley), Lady Jane continues bucking the system while fending off rivals to the British throne. Adding to the complications: the kingdom’s prejudice against shapeshifters known as “Ethians,” who can turn into animals when you least expect it. Clearly, this is not your grandparents’ Masterpiece Theatre. Launching with all eight episodes.

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