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Versailles: the first two seasons are trashy fun, and I reviewed them here, the third and final one was something of a let down, hence no review, though Liselotte is still great in it. The show isn’t a must, and its nods at history grow fewer and fewer as it progresses, but it does offer pretty costumes, pretty people, same sex relationships given the same amount of narrative detail as het ones and, by the end, a successful OT3, so there’s that.

OTOH, if there’s an audiobook in English for LIselotte’s letters, go for it. They need to be read out loud for maximum enjoyment. (I’m only sorry that those English translations I’ve seen invariably sound more formal than Liselotte does in in German, because the fact she writes informal baroque slang German at the extremely formal court of France is part of the appeal.