New BBC Two drama Versailles made quite the entrance last night.
A French-Canadian period drama, Versailles is set during the early reign of French king Louis XIV, telling the story of how built his world famous palace, and brought most of the French court along with him for the, erm, ride.
Screening at 9.30pm on BBC Two, the show got tongues wagging with its generous amount of sex scenes and nudity.
Yes, we’re all adults and we’ve all probably seen an episode of Game Of Thrones by now. And yes, we’ve all probably seen another adult naked, be it on a screen or in real life.
But it seems for some folks, the idea of full frontal nudity on the BBC was just a teensy bit jarring. Especially when your first sex scene happens two minutes in, and your third incident of nudity arrives 15 minutes later.
im watching porn on bbc2 how times have changed #Versailles 😄 😄
— edday_O (@liberian_edo) June 1, 2016
There's porn on BBC2 tonight guys #Versailles
— Elliot Wengler (@Wengle) June 1, 2016
Positively pornographic! #Versailles
— Nnely (@supergraniwish) June 1, 2016
The comments on Versailles‘ sex scenes were only matched by talk around all that lovely Enlightenment-era hair.
The only good thing about #Versailles is the hair.
— Hatty Collier (@HattyCollier) June 1, 2016
Thoughts on #Versailles so far: serious hair envy and the entire plotline seems to be based on who's sleeping with who 😂
— Lily Olivia (@itslilyolivia) June 1, 2016
I can't tell who's getting off with whom. So much hair. #Versailles
— Quentin Rayner (@quentinrayner) June 1, 2016
https://twitter.com/mrdavebyrne/status/738111988623147008
*works out a way of inserting the words 'the Royal merkin' into every single conversation* #Versailles
— Jules Harper 🌈 🪢🥦🍓🌻🌅🫰🏼🫶🏼 (@ItsJulesHarper) June 1, 2016
Still, Versailles has certainly made a memorable debut on the BBC, bringing together a lovely mixture of high camp, drama and Game Of Thrones style political intrigue. With nine more episodes planned in its first season, we’ll be keeping tabs on it, if only to see how ridiculous all those wigs get.
