# Netflix's The King (Henry V) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** netflix\ **Created:** [November 8, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-the-king-henry-v/843173 "2019-11-08T13:37:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-the-king-henry-v/843173/1 "2019-11-08T13:37:45Z")
From the YT clips I’ve seen…this looks really well done. Pattinson of course is riveting, and I’m not familiar with Timothy Chalamet’s work but he looks to be doing very well-crafted acting. It’s interesting to see an age-appropriate Henry V with a slight build tackling this role. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-the-king-henry-v/843173/2 "2019-11-08T13:45:19Z")
I got into it just for the full-armored-knight vs full-armored-knight action the cover promised, and in that respect it mostly delivered. Honestly, I skipped right past all the boring politics in between. But the fighting was good. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-the-king-henry-v/843173/3 "2019-11-08T13:53:57Z")
I was gravely disappointed by Agincourt. I wanted to see knights in full armor, foundering in the mud. I wanted to see a rain of arrows blotting out the sun. Instead the archers only loosed their arrows twice and we got a pretty much Hollywood-standard sword melee. The Dauphin’s demise was pretty satisfying, though. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-the-king-henry-v/843173/4 "2019-11-08T13:56:27Z")
We liked it though I wasn’t sure it offered anything new. The only thing I didn’t like the scenes between Hal and Catherine (Lily Depp). Though it was necessary to reveal certain plot points , it was kind of tagged on the end and I wasn’t all that impressed with Lily Depp, though she did not have many scenes to show a full performance range. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-the-king-henry-v/843173/5 "2019-11-08T15:18:05Z")
It wasn’t bad, as sword and sandal epics go, but they took some serious liberties with history (Falstaff wasn’t really a person, for instance, but rather a Shakespeare creation). Not a bad yarn, though, with some decent acting. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-the-king-henry-v/843173/6 "2019-11-08T17:51:21Z")
Well I’ve studied it some more…yeah there are a LOT of liberties taken with history, but fun cast. Good music. Maybe I just miss Game of Thrones. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-the-king-henry-v/843173/7 "2019-11-08T17:59:08Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I’m not familiar with Timothy Chalamet’s work but he looks to be doing very well-crafted acting. > > It’s interesting to see an age-appropriate Henry V with a slight build tackling this role. I’m not familiar either, but the PR photos I’ve seen of him in this make him look a bit like Mr Bean after attempting some do -it-yourself barbering. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-the-king-henry-v/843173/8 "2019-11-08T18:40:28Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Well I’ve studied it some more…yeah there are a LOT of liberties taken with history, but fun cast. Good music. > > Maybe I just miss Game of Thrones. **The Last Kingdom** on Netflix is good for a GOT fix. ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-the-king-henry-v/843173/9 "2019-11-08T18:44:10Z")
The French have a point when [complaining that it’s even less accurate than Shakespeare’s version](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/04/director-agincourt-museum-says-netflixs-king-anti-french-will/)! Mind you, it did seem a bit odd that having had Robert Pattinson do his embarrassingly bad, _'Allo 'Allo_ turn as the Dauphin, they then made Charles VI quite so restrained - they could easily have made the French look even sillier. Also, Henry as peacenik and the assassination subplot manage to be even less plausible than the Shakespearean tennis balls. The only interesting thing about Timothée Chalamet’s hairstyle is the way that, without explanation, it suddenly changes from his usual look as soon as he becomes King. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-the-king-henry-v/843173/10 "2019-11-08T20:19:46Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > I’m not familiar either, but the PR photos I’ve seen of him in this make him look a bit like Mr Bean after attempting some do -it-yourself barbering. You mean Edmund, the Black Adder? ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-the-king-henry-v/843173/11 "2019-11-08T20:30:53Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > I’m not familiar either, but the PR photos I’ve seen of him in this make him look a bit like Mr Bean after attempting some do -it-yourself barbering. In my opinion, that’s an apt description of what [Henry V actually looked like](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Henry5.JPG). ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-the-king-henry-v/843173/12 "2019-11-09T01:15:46Z")
> [@APB](#): > > The only interesting thing about Timothée Chalamet’s hairstyle is the way that, without explanation, it suddenly changes from his usual look as soon as he becomes King. His whole personality changes without explanation as soon as he becomes king. Something also taken straight out of Shakespeare.