Anyone watching The Royals tonight?

I don't care how awful the reviews are. The cast looks fabulous. I'm going to watch it and love it regardless.

"Has E fallen this far?"

Hon, they just signed the Kardashicunts to a $100 MILLION contract. So they can become All Kardashicunt, All the Time...

You can't fall much further than that....

As me grandfather would have said: Looks like shite.

That's dreadful, R2. I don't watch E! except for red carpet events and I noticed one of the Kardashians was part of that this year. I flipped the channel and if they are on next year, I'll skip it.

This is actually a step up for Liz Hurley. Her low point was a guest star role on Gossip Girl.

Are there any white guys with yellow skin on this show?

[quote] they just signed the Kardashicunts to a $100 MILLION contract

Really?! I thought their ratings were dropping.

Just watched 30 minutes and had to change channels. It's just horrible.

This is bad, and not in the "so bad it's good" way. Just in the bad way.

The best part of the show is the cousins. I'd rather have a comedy show with those characters than the soapy family drama.

will liz hurley go back to escorting now

Watching it now. Liz Hurley looks too young for the role of a queen. Her daughter looks the same age as her. The two dopey cousins are so obviously supposed to be a take-off of Fergie's daughters (the red hair, the hats, etc). The prince is semi-cute.

Simply awful. Watched it to the bitter end. Will not make this mistake again.

Ugh!

Just finished watching it. It drove me to distraction that the prince's hair length changed from scene to scene. So much so that I thought they were different characters for a bit. The cousins were so unbelievably chavvy and had working class accents!

I watched an old episode of Queer As Folk instead. On the DVD of course.

As I expected, I loved it. The Crown Prince's death is going to be a serious mystery.

So is the Princess a dyke?

Or is she just being a stupid party girl?

The commoner is supposed to be Kate, right?

That castle is beyond beautiful.

Eh, I'll dvr it to watch later.

Isn't the commoner an American and daughter of the head of security? Why didn't the Queen make sure she wasn't at the ceremony. And why was she, btw?

I know I'm going to just love the Queen.

P.U. -- Stinkeroo!

It was awful.

I thought it was a comedy. It was heavily marketed weeks in advance as such via commercials that used only a montage of "funny" clips except scenes with the knock-off characters of Beatrice and Eugenie.

I should have known it was a drama given it was an hour long. Not a single original joke or story line. Quite a disappointment.

It was so seriously flawed and ludicrous that it was funny at times. What crown prince is interviewed on the day of his brother's funeral - and right by the casket at that? What royal family allows paparazzi to hang out on their doorstep? Yes, it's definitely a fictional "royal" family.

Sex, drugs and death - all before the first commercial.

Liz Hurley dresses too slutty to be a kween.

The king (dear man) looks like a deer caught in the headlights.

The Goth daughter is a mess.

R17 - The country pile looks like Blenheim Palace.

I wonder if it's available for viewing in the UK. If it's so off kilter to Americans, it must be outrageously stupid for the British.

If you stayed for the extended previews, you would have seen that Helen's mother is the fabulous Joan Collins.

Terrible show, but trashy as hell. Much more fun than Revenge.

The Royals is a night time soap not the second coming of Downtown Abbey for fuck sakes! Trashy and unapologetic in it's purest form. Yes it had over the top moments but the show is not high brow period drama at all whatsoever.

Being that the first episode was the pilot I think this show may be my guilty pleasure of the year and Joan Collins will be joining the cast later on.

What I was surprised to see was all the drug use that took place along with something else you don't see in modern television shows these days and that is characters smoking cigarettes..

Perhaps because smoking is still considered acceptable in British society.

I can see the anti-smoking lobby attacking this show for making smoking cigarettes seem glamorous.

I really loved how they made princess eugenie and beatrice look like spoiled cunts.

Also, the sole reason i will be watching this show to see joan collins cast as the queen mother.

I also think they should've cast lisa vanderpump as the queen instead of elizabeth hurley

[quote] Has Liz Hurley really fallen this far?

Honestly, how far did she have to go? She was never an even decent actress. She should feel lucky anyone gives a shit about her now.

The guy who plays the prince is hot. Who is he? Has he taken his clothes off yet?

The show was entertaining in a mindless sort of way. I was bored with the Sunday viewing choices so I managed to watch it until the end. I realize that this was a "fictional Royal Family" but some of the characters were hard to believe and over-the-top. I'm sure that the real-life Royals have their foibles but they woudn't have a throne if they ever behaved this badly.

The most aggravating thing: the constant background music was very distracting and unnecessary.

Prince Liam is William Mosely who played Peter in the Narnia movies. He was barely 18 then and is 28 now.

[quote]This is actually a step up for Liz Hurley. Her low point was a guest star role on Gossip Girl.

At least GG made it on the air. She also played Wonder Woman's archenemy in the NBC pilot that never aired.

No opinion yet on The Royals. I only caught the last 20 minutes of it but, from that, I presume it's supposed to be camp. After all, Joan Collins as the Queen Mother!? This is bound to be intended as humor.

It could be fun. I'll give it a chance.

Is Joan Collins the Queen Mother or the Queen's mother? The QM would be the King's mother. Regardless, there is some potential if the writers don't screw it up.

What do you mean has Liz Hurley fallen this far?

What else has she done in the last 20 years?

It is a mess. Unwatchable. The handsome Prince and beautiful locations are all it has going for it.It's not funny. Isn't so bad it's good. Just bad.

Just saw the whole pilot. It's silly fun, if you're up for this sort of thing.

The characters are easy to keep straight if you bear in mind who their prototypes are. The king and queen are Charles and Diana, had Diana lived and become queen. In this version, Charles ("Simon") is kind and sensible and Diana ("Helena") is a vicious cunt who slaps her grown son in the face.

Prince William ("Robert") dies in the first episode so wild Prince Harry ("Liam") is heir to the throne. There's a hint Liam may be illegitimate. (Liam also has a drunk, druggy, slutty sister.)

There is a Prince Andrew character who wishes he were king and who makes the maid blow him. His two daughters are like Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice, as played by Edina Monsoon and and Patsy Stone.

There's also a sort of royal butler or factotum, and his plucky American-raised daughter who's fucking Prince Liam, much to the consternation of his mother, Queen Helena.

It reminded me of Gossip Girl, as in The Royals bears approximately the same relation to the real royals as GG did to real UES teens. It's an absurd fantasia but quite amusing if you're game.

In that short preview they showed of Joan Collins, she didn't look so great. But I still look forward to seeing her.

R27, they showed the Prince shirtless and fucking a girl in the first five minutes.

I watched it and there were a couple of laugh out loud moments. It's pure trash and nothing more. I'm looking forward to seeing Joan Collins as the Queen Mother. I'll download it and watch it again next week.

[quote]There's also a sort of royal butler or factotum

My bad. He's the head of security.

[quote]they showed the Prince shirtless and fucking a girl in the first five minutes.

There was a great shot of the prince in bed, the camera looking right up his spread legs, in only white boxers. Couldn't see anything but a nice shot.

The language was funny. In the first few minutes, the Queen Helena called her daughter a common whore for showing her "beaver." Later the queen complains that a footman nearly saw her "snatch."

Still, we know how the royals talk. In the Squidgygate tapes Diana said,"And after all I've done for this fucking family!"

Worse, on the Camillagate tapes Charles said he wanted to be Canilla's tampon. So this show sounds about right.

Here ya go:

I guess I'm dimwitted. I thought it was a pretty good parody. Like the Hurley's look trying to be a little like Middleton, the Eugenie and Beatrice look a likes.

R38 Thanks, you even had the crotch shot!

R39 It was cute; pay no mind to the naysayers.

They'll watch it religiously every week then report back to DL to tell us all how it's the worst show ever and how we're all cretins for watching it. It's the invariable trademark of DL's would-be culturally superior.

Somehow those pics of him pulling his shirt off over his head on r38 s link never made it to the broadcast that my DVR recorded.

The first time he shows up on the episode, he is waking up with his face on the chick's butt. That's where the pics of him in his boxers come from.

Presumably he is waking up after the taking off of the shirt and screwing, but that didn't make the cut???

Did others of you see the taking off the shirt and a sex scene?

Never mind. I got the answer to my own question.

The first episode is an hour and 15 minutes long. I recorded a repeat of it later at night, and that rerun was only an hour long. So scenes must be edited out of what saw.

I'm recording another broadcast of the entire episode... although I don't like the show enough to watch the whole thing again.

Oh dear god, I've just looked this up.

King SIMON??!!! We do not have kings called Simon.

It sounds fabulous in a completely horrendous sort of way.

Will give it one more week but I found the first week disappointing -draggy. The prince is hot - reality is definitely off as the commoner love interest lives in the palace and just tools around the royal living areas? And she's american?

Hurley looks fabulous! Too young looking for the role but she does look related to the druggy daughter. She says snatch in such a haughty manner.

The king was doing something for me -who is he?

British television has no grey area.

It is either the absolute best the medium has to offer -- astonishingly well done.

Or it is pure insipid schlock. And British schlock is beyond dreadful to the English-speaking world. Simply awful

Liam was okay if you're into bland hairless twinks but there wasn't much else of interest, and the negative points about the show far outweigh the good. Pass.

Has the Windsor-Mountbatten PR Department (aka "The Firm) commented on this degrading characterization of the Royal Family?

Fictional, my ass. Not when they cast the York girls as transparently as THE ROYALS television production has done.

For those who missed it, it is being repeated on E! right now, 9PM CDT.

There have been promos airing for days now on NBC and its cable networks with quotes from early reviews, including People magazine saying it's an early favorite "in every Emmy category," or something like that.

Really, People mag?

Having said that, I am in for the duration. Liz Hurley is fabulous, even if I crack up thinking of Bubble on AbFab imitating her with hooves and horse-snorting up the stairs every time I see her.

R42 The version cut down for an hour time slot also omitted the servant walking on on a nearly nude Liz, and her subsequent complaint to the king that "A footman nearly saw my snatch!"

Saw the first episode but it didn't catch me enough to want to watch more. Very trashy, some good moments. Not sure what was missing for me.

I hope they dial down the volume of the music. It's distracting and makes the dialogue difficult to follow in parts.

It's obviously written by an American with little Royal knowledge. The best part is the York twin ripoffs - except for their accents which sound chav-ish but their outfits and behaviour are spot-on.

They should've made Liz Hurley the Queen and her husband her Consort, a Prince - he doesn't behave like a King and she behaves like she is in charge.

Plus Joan Collins could not be the "Queen mother" if Liz married into the Royal family. I believe Joan is supposed to be the Queen's mother in the show but the Queen is only a Consort.

The CGI interiors are poorly done and the Royal family would never ride around in a stretched Mercedes Limo with blacked out windows.

If he keeps pressing to dissolve the monarchy I think the King will meet a surprising death.

Did the Andrew character deliberately miss shooting the king while they were out hunting? I can't remember if there was as distraction that led the shot astray.

The queen says that this is the only life she's ever known. So, I can't figure out which is the hereditary heir. It it's her, then he ought to be Prince, not King. If it's him, where does this quote come from, and why does she seem to be running the show? Unless there was something unusual about them, as with King & Queen Wm & Mary who co-ruled.

R53 All that may be true but it's like saying The Flash defies the laws of physics. None of that matters when the show is pure fantasy.

R55 Don't know but I'd say the king isn't long for this world. I'm predicting a car accident in Paris.

RR56 Per Wikipedia, Liz is the queen consort. However, she may also have an aristocratic background.

Who was shocked that Prince Andrew ("Cyrus") turned out to be bisexual, as he's rumored to be in real life?

Good lord, what a bunch of miserable, pathetic, losers!

It's too over-the-top to be even somewhat entertaining.

Solution yo your misery, R58: Change the channel.

Eh, it's on while I wait to see the zombies.

😛

Wendy Williams said she loved it, or is she shilling for E these days?

Maybe there weren't enough charismatic actors in it - Liam for one is dull as dishwater. And it got a bit too cloying sometimes.

R62 Do you know what cloying means? These are pretty unsentimental characters.

[quote]Fictional, my ass. Not when they cast the York girls as transparently as THE ROYALS television production has done

From the first episode.

Eugenie: What's that smell? Is it your feet?

Beatrice: I thought it was your fanny.

Eugenie: Very well could be in this broil.

R63, the king was a sentimental character. And remember the scenes about the girl's father and dead mother (the dad crying on a park bench or some such). Very sentimental.

The second episode was even more boring than the first one. I'll give it one last shot next week and if it doesn't improve, I'll have to say goodbye.

R60, You should find a zombie emoji.

R64 The few moments you describe hardly make the show saccharine when balanced out with the frankly cynical tone of the rest. Hell, the dead prince was forgotten by the second episode.

The Mosley/Narnia kid is cute. Pity about the disturbing neck mole. It's not as bad as those of Snowden, Anton-Ohno and Hartnett.

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Prince Liam is showing his ass in the upcoming episode.

Does anyone else think Prince Liam looks like Jimboy Walton?

The Liz Hurley character Queen Helena is the daughter of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Oxford (Joan Collins), which makes absolutely no sense because the UK has never even had the titles of Grand Duke and Grand Duchess (which were titles given in Imperial Russia to the sons and daughters of the Tsar).

The show seems rushed and thrown together.

There needs to be a DL-scripted version of the show. All the characters would spends hours and hours discussing how German they were and the etiquette of royal precedence.

R72 Well, that will certainly clear things up when Queen Helena is discussing her "snatch" or the princess' "beaver."

Or do real royals use different terms when mentioning their cunts?

Real royal women like Queen Elizabeth II refer to their "fuckbox," r75.

I'm ashamed to say I watched the pilot. So bad. And not so bad that it's good. Or fun or entertaining. It was just too stupid to waste life's precious time on.

R77 But you'd waste your life's precious time bitching about it on Datalounge?

In fairnes to R77, a question was asked. In fairness to reality, it's true, this is probably not the place to be making a point about wasting precious time.

It was fucking terrible. How this piece of shite made it to tv I'll never know.

And R80 will be back next week to let us know how bad the new episode was.

R81 Believe me I wont, we already have enough crap on tv in the UK that I would rather watch than this.

Any white guys with yellow skin on the show tonight?

Gemma while driving started sucking off Liam, then crashed the car into a phone booth.

I'll have to go back and watch the first part which i missed. Supposedly Liam shows his royal bum.

Now we need some nude Jasper, Eleanor's blackmailing bodyguard.

I never understood why William Moseley was cast in the Narnia films. He looks nothing like the actors who portray his siblings. The others look like they could be siblings but not William.

I fast forward to the scenes of Blenheim Palace.

E! Digitally inserted white boxers to cover his ass!

William Moseley Is a doll.

I'm loving this show. The humour seems to have left it mostly now though and it seems to be turning into more of a bitchy drama. I was looking forward to seeing Joan Collins as the Queen Mum but she hasn't appeared yet.

Jasper (Tom Austen) is hot as hell. Hot.

I'm going to keep watching.

Yeah, I'm enjoying it as well, for what it is. The guys are hot, the dialogue is bitchy, and the story is soapy, over-the-top nonsense. Surprisingly enough, Liz Hurley is really quite good.

And episode three included what must be the first reference to anal bleaching in television, so there's a landmark right there.

I was wondering how the prince's white briefs were so...form fitting.

[quote]Liz Hurley looks too young for the role of a queen. Her daughter looks the same age as her.

*guffaws* Someone needs new glasses.

It's fun to watch. Totally unpretentious. The music and wardrobe are fantastic. And the palace they shoot in is incredible. Some of you bitches take things too seriously.

[quote]Liz Hurley looks too young for the role of a queen. Her daughter looks the same age as her.

Hi Liz! I didn't know you posted on DL.

I agree with R90. Liz Hurley is much better than I expected. Quite surprising.

Any white guys with yellow skin on the show tonight?

One of my favorite things about the show is that only the king and his son seem to have a proper posh accent. Elizabeth Hurley speaks with a middle-class accent, while the king's daughter and his brother both seem to speak with distinctly lower-class accents (though both their characters have spent their entire lives in palaces).

The best thing on the whole show so far--which perhaps they'll never top--was when the three princesses were sharing a bong in the palace, and one of the ratfaced lesser princesses (the ones supposed to be Beatrice and Eugenie) kept her fascinator on even while taking a hit from it.

Actually, let me correct myself: the best thing about the show is William Moseley's ass.

[quote]The best thing on the whole show so far--which perhaps they'll never top--was when the three princesses were sharing a bong in the palace,

I think Prince Cyril's booze and cocaine binge topped it. Especially since he was shortly afterwards seen wearing a striped jacket and pink pants...

[quote]The queen says that this is the only life she's ever known. So, I can't figure out which is the hereditary heir. It it's her, then he ought to be Prince, not King. If it's him, where does this quote come from....

She was born into the nobility - duh! Just not heir(ess) to the throne.

[quote]....and why does she seem to be running the show? Unless there was something unusual about them, as with King & Queen Wm & Mary who co-ruled.

Because she's the star of the show. Anyway, she's only been running garden parties and fashion shows and her children's love lives.

You haters can always go watch Golden Girls reruns.

Oliver Milburn, who plays Ted (Ophelia's father) is one hot daddy.

This is actually better than I thought it would be. Hurley seems to be doing her best impersonation of Jacqueline Bisset, however.

The show has taken a turn to seriousness. Dealing with the mundane, duty-filled lives that they lead. They all have to do their part. And they're still miserable and unhappy.

It was sad that that asshole distiller treated the Queen like he did, but he got his in the end.

I'm surprised the spoiled, bratty princess actually attended those events. Yeah, she was high while doing them but she did come through. Didn't learn a god-damned thing, but she still did them.

Ophelia needs to make up her damned mind.

It has the reception of one of the worst shows ever...

No thanks.

R103 = devoted Kardashian fan. Watches every possible episode and then discussed for weeks.

I am absolutely loving The Royals.

It has become my unexpected naughty treat.

It's much more enjoyable than it should be (given how trashy it is), but I am disappointed Cyrus isn't hotter (since he's our gay eye candy), and I feel if they don't give his two daughters some personalities soon their schtick is going to get terribly one-note very quickly.

Sunday's episode was pretty wild. Joan Collins was on abd it was more than a brief cameo. She had some good, bitchy lines. Cyrus was camping it up and even made some odd reference to kissing Joan's pussy.

The king and prince actually have some moments of thoughtful acting especially when together. The over-the-top quality of the rest is pure fun, campy trash. However, the bits that snap one back to reality ("the palace" and "the King of England") are tiresome.

This stabbing thing has me freaked out!!!

I totally guessed that the King would be the subject of an assassination plot. When the King told his wife and brother off, I thought, "Oh, he's dead"

The brother did it, too.

So the love of the Princess' life is a married man, great😧

So Jasper is an American?

There was something wrong with Joan Collins' face. One side was of her jaw was less puffy than the other. Maybe it was poor lighting.

Too bad, it had so much potential. It's pretty crappy.

It jumped the shark tonight.

Yikes! After a dull period of a couple of episodes the past two--and especially tonight's--are picking up the drama considerably,

Well, it's still going back to existing rumors that Harry isn't Charles' son...

[italic]The Royals [/italic] is trashy but so are royals. Considerably more so IRL.

Shit just got real!!

Was that just a stall tactic??

At least the queen and the other queen didn't kiss. That would have been disturbing.

That kiss Silas gave that hottie guy was yummy, though.

What happens when the results come back?

This is getting good.

"That pillow is older than America"

LOL😃

That was an hilarious line R114.

I'm really enjoying this. The plots have all definitely thickened...

The series has been picked up for a second season.

"Walk away"

The season-ender was on last night. I missed the assassination attempt ep so am a bit lost.

It appears the king died. The queen did it? And she had her son offed? What is the end game of all that?

We don't know anything at this point, R117. Yes, the King has just died.

We don't know who ordered Prince Robert killed, we know that the Queen and the other queen are in cahoots, but we don't know what their end game is.

We don't know who that Domino group is. The Queen seemed pleased when she saw their flag outside the castle.

Silas totally deserved the beatdown that Liam gave him.

It's interesting that the blond bitch had the power to get Ophelia offered a job in NYC.

Oh, its Cyrus not Silas

Apologies.

I'm just getting a chance to watch the finale.

I am shocked the Queen's longtime lover was murdered. Why was he killed? It was obvious he was her true love.

Who is this Henry she named as the father? It wasn't her lover. The MI5 guy told the lover to send the Queen's apologies for naming him the father.

[quote]Marianne Faithfull to this day cannot travel to the US

Trumptards are so stupid. Marianne Faithfull is not banned from entering the US.

I just binge watched Season 4.

Everyone waiting for Willow to pimp out Robert and she DOESN'T.

Any word on the possibilities of a Season 5?

Where are you watching season 4?

And I don’t remember William Moseley’s ass in the show—he was in white boxers

Search for gomovix and search for The Royals when you get there.

r124 = Shilling.

The Royals has been cancelled.

r125, not shilling as I forgot about season 4. Pulled it up all at once and it stopped right before the Massacre in Moldova.

It was certainly better than the Dynasty reboot from hell.

It was interesting how they replicated St George's Chapel at Blenheim Palace.

It was like santorum. Frothy shit.