Dangerous Liaisons is enjoyable if you don’t take it seriously

Whether they are reconstructions of famous recent history such as The Crown or licentious Ukrainian divertissements such as Bridgertoni period drama they are going through a phase of stellar popularity. Dangerous Liaisons, starting November 6 on Lionsgate + fits perfectly into the trend and is in balance between these two opposing declinations, ways of telling a more or less recent past that describes a sumptuous reality but hides worries and worries in style “even the rich cry“. The historical series created by Harriet Warner, renewed for a second season even before the debut, is a prequel ideal of the epistolary novel of the same name by the French Choderlos de Laclos, a cynical fresco of a society – the noble one of the second half of the 18th century – which fed on sinful passions. It was the chronicle told through a intense exchange of letters of an intertwining of love relationships dominated by betrayal, cheating, seduction, vanity, self-destruction that culminated in a grandiose and cruel scheme of revenge, the “wicked game”- the perverse game – of soundtrack accompanying the trailer.

Its transposition – in fact theorigin story of the diabolical Viscount de Valmont and Marquise de Merteuil, it is quite another animal – the prelude to a classic it’s a delicious serial toy, hilarious and naughty, which disdains any pretense of social criticism and moral parable in order to offer the public a pungent, intriguing entertainment without great pretensions of prestige. Basically, it is a cross between Cruel Intentions And pretty Little Liars with Bridgerton. Dangerous Liaisons it’s a retcon nice and good that focuses on the evil Marquess de Merteuil and Viscount of Valmont when both are still just Camille (Alice Englert, Beautiful Creatures) and Pascal (Nicholas Denton, The Unit), two poor young people, in love and ambitious (as well as the eighteenth-century version of an escort and a gigolo), eager to climb the social ladder. She works as a courtesan in a pleasure house, he courts and seduces the rich noblewomen of high society by accumulating their secrets with which to blackmail them in exchange for favors and advancements in society.