The Musketeers

The Musketeers

2014
The Musketeers
The Musketeers

The Musketeers

7.8 | TV-14 | en | Drama

Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite band of soldiers who fight for what is just. They are heroes in the truest and most abiding sense – men that can be trusted and believed in to do the right thing, regardless of personal risk.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP10  We Are the Garrison
Jul. 30,2016
We Are the Garrison

Following Treville's funeral the musketeers survive an attempt by Grimaud to kill them when their garrison is torched, leaving many casualties, and gunpowder and weapons stolen. To lure the musketeers into a trap Grimaud takes hostages including Sylvie but the four comrades stage a rescue, and the queen and Dauphin are restored to the palace with Milady as the royal spy master, her first task being to take care of Gaston. However, the mortally wounded Grimaud escapes and the musketeers must stop him from blowing up the city with the stolen gunpowder.

EP9  The Prize
Jul. 23,2016
The Prize

When death strikes the Louvre, Treville takes controversial steps to protect the Dauphin from the unholy alliance of Grimaud, Gaston and the Duke of Lorraine. His secretive tactics isolate the Queen and threaten to drive even his loyal Musketeers apart.

EP8  Prisoners of War
Jul. 16,2016
Prisoners of War

The Queen's reputation is on the line after Grimaud kidnaps Aramis.

EP7  Fool's Gold
Jul. 09,2016
Fool's Gold

Chasing Grimaud, the Musketeers make a troubling discovery in a village ruled by women.

EP6  Death of a Hero
Jul. 02,2016
Death of a Hero

It's the day of reckoning, as Grimaud vows to kill the Musketeers in a series of savage co-ordinated attacks and puts Feron to the ultimate test in his bid for power. The furious battle for survival sparks a series of revelations that threaten to destroy Paris. Before the day is out, a hero falls, there’s a traitor on the rise and the Musketeers will be changed forever.

EP5  To Play the King
Jun. 25,2016
To Play the King

The Musketeers battle to restore order in Paris after Grimaud and Feron stage an ambitious Châtelet breakout, setting free a lunatic with murderous designs on the Louvre.

EP4  The Queen's Diamonds
Jun. 18,2016
The Queen's Diamonds

Bonnaire is back, and the Musketeers need him to save the future of the English Crown.

EP3  Brother in Arms
Jun. 11,2016
Brother in Arms

King Louis tasks the Musketeers with bringing his exiled brother, the Duke of Orléans, back to Paris in order to mend bridges. On the way, the Duke is robbed of dangerous letters which could destroy Orléans. The Duke informs the corrupt Governor of this, and the Governor's Red Guard must race the Musketeers in the hunt for the thief.

EP2  The Hunger
Jun. 04,2016
The Hunger

The corrupt Governor of Paris conspires with the Duke de Beaufort, primary provider of food for Paris, to stage a robbery of the city's granary and pin it on the refugees, only to later sell the stolen grain back to the King at an inflated price. D'Artagnan is taken captive along with the rioting refugees, and the other Musketeers (along with D'Artagnan's wife Constance, now in charge of the Musketeer garrison) must rescue them from the hands of the Red Guard before they are executed.

EP1  Spoils of War
May. 28,2016
Spoils of War

Athos, Porthos and D'Artagnan are fighting on the battlefront while Aramis has trouble living in contemplation as a monk. The Musketeers' search for missing gunpowder lead them to follow bandits to Aramis' monastery, where circumstance force them to collaborate to save the monastery's children and brothers. Aramis' finally accepts his true calling as a Musketeer and rejoins his brothers-in-arms in Paris.

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7.8 | TV-14 | en | Drama , Action & Adventure | More Info
Released: 2014-01-19 | Released Producted By: BBC Worldwide , BBC Drama Productions Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ww8fq
Synopsis

Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite band of soldiers who fight for what is just. They are heroes in the truest and most abiding sense – men that can be trusted and believed in to do the right thing, regardless of personal risk.

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Cast

Luke Pasqualino , Santiago Cabrera , Tom Burke

Director

Alexandre Dumas

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BBC Worldwide , BBC Drama Productions

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grolss Seriously? The BBC has always meant quality to me. Obviously, I have to reconsider that. Me and my better half (and she isn't the picky one, I am!) watched the first episode. She looks at me and says: "That was quite enough, wasn't it?" I couldn't agree more. This is not a murder of an old classic. It's a murder of entertainment of all sorts. Unless you like spending your time on action-packed very soft erotic no-engagement-or-brain-capacity-required ...things? Oh, I almost forgot, I think they tried to put a bit of comedy in there as well, though I couldn't find myself smiling. I almost feel bad for being so harsh, but it was truly awful. How this series could reach an IMDB-rating of 7 point something is a great mystery to me. Or perhaps, I'm just the stupid one? ;-)
bloopville The first season is perfect entertainment for a rainy Wednesday night. Stoke up the fire, and watch some buckles being swashed. However, the second season becomes earnest and preachy, so that you start to care more about the plot holes, historical inaccuracies and 2 dimensional characters.Maybe the third season will improve.Well, the third season did not improve. Add one part omni-competent, indestructible villain, one part anachronistic social justice warrior and one part simpering younger royal, and every cliché rides off into the sunset, by the final show.
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.
nits_ss saw this series over the weekend binging over Christmas. Being a big novelist and avid fan of Dumas novels , immediately liked this series. While it tends to feel-good drama with be clichéd and cheesy in some aspects , has a fresh breath of air with amazing portrayal of characters from lead actors along with keen comic timing. Hoping that this series can turn on the same scale as the Vikings, Game of thrones etc. Want more villains in the series going fwd. I hope the creators reduce the cheesiness and delve further into depth of characters of the Musketeers and their devotion to the king and country . Cannot wait to see series 3. enjoyed!