What a joyless person. It’s a gameshow designed to appeal to Americans, they wanted a pretty castle.
Jesus, Novara media, which I’d never heard of before joining the fediverse, is a pile of shite, isn’t it?
It’s obviously just for entertainment, has anyone claimed otherwise?
If I wanted to watch something for an accurate historical representation of Scotland, I wouldn’t ever have even thought of putting The Traitors anywhere near the top of the list.
I’d rewatch Trainspotting.
Or Neds. Cracking movie.
“ Encompassed by violent street gangs, neglectful parents, bullying teachers and a dearth of positive role models, a studious but emotionally abandoned kid turns thug.”
Sounds like a right laugh a minute, but I’m going to watch it. Thanks for the recommendation.
It is marvellous. Tyrannosaur and The Magdalene Sisters are other gems of the director Peter Mullan. Dark and heavy, but great.
Tyrannosaur was directed by Paddy Considine.
Do people even really think of it as being an example of Scotland? I always just saw the location as being just like any other house build by some rich twat in that time period.
It’s as representative of Scotland as Fort Boyard is of France
This romanticisation of Scotland has been going on since Sir Walter Scott, it’s not a new phenomenon. It’s actually fairly apposite that the castle was paid for by the proceeds of empire because Scotland was an enthusiastic participant in the empire with much of Edinburgh and Glasgow being financed by the proceeds of “sugar” (read: the triangular slave trade route).
Unfortunately my fellow Scots can sometimes have a hard time grappling with our historical participation in empire and have a tendency to whitewash it. One of the reasons we had the unification of parliaments was that Scotland bankrupted itself by putting all of its money into an overseas colony which ultimately failed. Hard to see participation in empire as an English corruption if we were already trying to establish our own empire.
