The Vidiot Reviews....

Rating: 6/10 (27 February 2019)

The Favourite
The best thing about being friends with the queen is using your selfies to counterfeit money.
Unfortunately, to make their fortune the royal besties in this dramedy must swing.
Disgraced Baroness Abigail Masham (Emma Stone) arrives at the court of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) in hopes of finding work. With help from her cousin Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz), the queen's current consort, Abigail becomes a servant. But after discovering a secret about her kin and the Queen, Abigail attempts to reclaim her station by dethroning Sara as Anne's favourite.
While it presents a quirky take on the unsubstantiated relationship between the three parties during Britain's 1703 conflict with France, this stylish and well-acted biography vacillates too much between upper crust laughs, lurid encounters and political intrigue; never lingering long enough at either to feel authentic.
Moreover, if the Queen is using chambermaids to please herself what's the point of the Beefeaters? Yellow Light
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