Animal Lovers, Skip This One

Rating: 1/10 (3 February 2019)

Pros: Acted well, good cinematography, focuses on a Queen most of us never knew much about, if anything
Cons: Animal lovers will find it horribly offensive and none of that needed to be included to make the point that these people were totally without empathy, cruel and egotistically selfish; predictable overall plot, may or may not follow actual history (from what I read the very premise of the Queen's personal life is debatable at best), and a downer in the extreme
I was looking forward to a Downton Abbey-type setting (if not flavor), with some real life history and intrigue. What I got were a bunch of depraved excuses for human beings and a movie that used lesbianism as titillation to draw in viewers. Which by the way, was also 'abused' like everything else in the movie.
In other words, if you feel like watching something that highlights the worst of the human condition, that will leave you feeling even worse about the human race than you already might in this particular time in our history with all that's going on in the world, then by all means, watch The Favourite. The title is ironic, not just in light of the plot, but in light of my feelings about this movie.