King & Conqueror (2025) Season 1 download
The story of a clash that defined the future of a country and a continent for a thousand years. Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy were two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
These two former allies with no design on the British throne found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of its crown.
It is 1066. We are on a battlefield in black and white. Colour has yet to be invented. “William!” shouts the leader of one army. “Harold!” shouts the leader of the other, creating a Proustian rush of Madge Bishop roaring across Ramsay Street at her husband during the glory days of Neighbours. But I wonder what happens next?
History, that’s what! But to explain the history that is about to happen we must first go back a bit to, a caption informs us, “years earlier”. This is a little after “bygone times”, a bit before “days of yore” and, as it appears that Edward the Confessor (Eddie Marsan, having the time of his life playing the last monarch of the house of Wessex as a religious fanatic) is about to be crowned, probably around 1043.
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They can’t say that, though, because then people who know their Harolds from their Haralds, instead of just wanting to make jokes about Cnuts and Harthacnuts, will start getting upset about tweaked timelines. As if an eight-part drama from the BBC with CBS is the right place to be looking for detailed understanding of the reshaping of English society the like of which has never been seen before or since, but anyway, on we go! Colour has been invented, by the way. Apparently, it was just a stylistic choice before.
King & Conqueror starts slowly and never quite attains escape velocity. Like William confronted with Anglo-Saxon troublemakers when he first lands in England, you have to fight your way through a couple of exposition-heavy episodes before the narrative starts flowing with anything like freedom. This is because the BBC/CBS are aware that, unlike the Tudor period or days of yore, the general public does not have much working knowledge of the era. So, people say things like: “Everything is changing … this is a new age. That’s how important the coronation of someone who is not yet known as Edward the Confessor, but will be, is.”
DOWNLOAD King & Conqueror (2025) Season 1Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, History
Stars: James Norton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Clémence Poésy, Emily Beecham, Eddie Marsan
Country: Iceland
Language: English
King and Conqueror episodes
Episodes: 08 (complete)
King & Conqueror (2025) Season 1
