When Jenna Coleman left Doctor Who in 2015 to star in her leading role in ITV's Victoria, at first, I'll admit I was emotionally sad, but when I watched the first episode of her as Queen Victoria, all that changed.
If you haven't seen The Head of Victoria, the first season shows the first few years of the reign of Queen Victoria, going from her accession to the throne to her friendship and infatuation with Lord Melbourne to even her engagement and marriage to Prince Albert and ending the season with the birth of their first child, Victoria.
Daisy Goodwin created them. The show gives an engaging look not only at Victoria's rise to Queen but how others around her were as well. Talk about a royal family drama. The writing is fantastic and intriguing. Coleman plays Victoria and plays her quite well. But along with Coleman, Tom Hughes as Prince Albert, Daniela Holtz as Baroness Lehzen, and Nell Hudson as Miss. Skerrett is excellent as well.
Along with the strong writing and performances from everyone, the scores and visual effects are amazing. Like episode seven, the episode had such a fantastic setting from outside and inside the palace and even the CGI of the model train when Prince Albert rode and later Queen Victoria.
And the scores, the theme to the intro, and Victoria is so thrilling and chilling simultaneously. Not to mention catchy as well. Every time I hear the theme song, I hum it during and after the end of the episode.
You can catch the second season on ITV on Sunday, Aug. 27th, or if you are in the U.S., you can see the second season on Sunday, January 14th, 2018, on PBS's Masterpiece.
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