Jorge Guerreiro Let's get some things out of the way first: the costumes and wardrobe were gorgeous, the scenery and settings were very accurate and the portrayal of early XVII century France is true to history. The acting was solid and had some truly above average actors behind the characters. The action scenes were great and historically detailed, with the added bonus of being very well shot.That being said, two things kept me from enjoying this series to the fullest: the abuse of deus ex machina and other plot devices, and the badly written, ridiculously predictable story lines.WARNING - Spoilers coming, so avoid them if you haven't finished watching the series.The evil prime-minister conspiring to overthrow the king was already overused in the 80s, to the point of Blackadder making a joke out of it. That didn't stopped it from happening in many works of fiction over the last decades, but The Musketeers take this TV Trope a step too far with all three prime-ministers being the main villain for the respective season. I dare to say that if we had another five seasons we would have had another five evil prime-ministers. It got old on the second season, let alone the third… Then the erratic, buffoon of a king, Louis XIII... It's no secret that European monarchs weren't always the cream of the crop. The amount of inbreeding between royal houses assured that. But XVII century is not the dark ages anymore, when illiterate kings who raped peasants for sport and could barely speak were common. By this time kings were highly trained in matters of state, literature, diplomacy and warfare.Yet Louis XIII is dumb as a bag of hammers. Not only that, he changes his disposition from episode to episode for no reason. One day he's thankful to the musketeers and the next he can't stand them. One day he loves the queen but then he's cold to her the next week. In other words, he is what the plot (or better, the writers) needs him to be.With that said, barely any character has a story arch or shows any changes over the 30 episodes of the series. Aramis, d'Artagnan, Athos, queen Anne and Constance Bonacieux are the only characters that actually show some character growth. The others pretty much remain static. This is done to a degree that most episodes could be watched randomly, as there aren't ramifications from episode to episode. Sure, the characters acknowledge what has happened before, but it is not shown nor it affects anything.This leads us to the story lines. The threat of the week was the standard format for TV series decades ago. Then shows like Babylon 5, Stargate, Buffy and many others demonstrated that viewers could be expected to follow stories and story arcs for multiple seasons, and that not all television needed to be done in a format where the order in which the episodes are viewed is irrelevant, since nothing ever changes besides the new story of each episode. The musketeers goes back in time and has a format that would have been standard in the 80s and early 90s, with only the final two episodes of the season showing any ramifications for what has happened so far.Finally, everything tends to be presented in black or white. Bad guys are Disney-like villains, good guys are heroes of great integrity and character. There's no grey, no relatable antagonists, no middle ground. The show pretty much tells you for whom to cheer, whom to like and whom to dislike.In conclusion: this show had everything to be great except for the writers. Even though the writing crew changed in the end of the first season, the show remained the same. The writers had great material to work with and they watered it down to a (extremely) dumbed version of what this show could be. I'm still in my 20s and I felt like I was 15 years too old to be enjoying this show. The saddest part is that, when we consider the material written by Dumas, this is almost unforgivable. In other words, the writing was fitting for a cartoon or a Disney Channel show, not for a BBC series.Thus I give it 7/10 because I can't give it 6,5. But it's the lowest 7 that can be given, all thanks to the writing.Watch it if its on, but don't expect anything above average.

Corey Moody This show is a must see!!!! I cannot wait for the newest season. If you watch this you will not be disappointed. If you don't, you will be at a loss and doing yourself a great disservice. I wish I could find the actual outfits they wore. I been searching all over to find the right shoulder guard of Porthos(Howard Charles) from season 3. I would freak is I were able to get and have it signed by him. I would eve pay for it if I had to. Love these guys, love this show. Hands down, one of the best Musketeers group to hit the screen!!!!

Soumabha Sengupta This is the first Netflix series I viewed and I was glued to each and every episode till I finished watching all the seasons. A classic which has been made into movies many times which ended up to be either average or below average, this is the first ever series which gives due credit to Alexander Dumas' swashbuckling novel of never ending romance and adventure. Every character in this series was handled with extreme dexterity with great acting from all the actors. The action was at par with the best Hollywood movies. When the series ended, it left me with a heavy heart, thinking of what would happen to the Musketeers, why did this saga end, do we really have such heroes in real life sharing such beautiful friendship and loyalty, it was so well made that the entire thing seemed real. I wish BBC take up more seasons for this series with more adventures of D'Artagnan & his comrades. All the actors deserve a standing ovation for delivering outstanding performance.

wandahalpert My family and I enjoyed every episode of this rollicking adventure with The Musketeers. Every one of them was a good story with great acting, costumes and amazing sets that carefully crafted images of the 17th century that were breathtaking and beautiful. I enjoyed the plots, the characters and every scene. The fight scenes were wonderful, the quiet ones wistful and soft and lovely. The female characters were well rounded out such as the cleverness of Milady de Winter, the youthful fearlessness of Constance and the measured loyalty of the Queen were enjoyable. The men all had a story line and history that was cleverly written and engaging.The cardinal was a proper and dignified villain in the first series, and, in the second series, Rochefort was the villain who completely lost it and went berserk causing almost the entire collapse of the king's reign and law and order in the land.This was as satisfying as anything we have seen on television and one evening, we were so enthralled and could not turn it off until we had viewed the last five episodes. They were so engaging that we miss it now, having viewed all of them, and wish there were more.