Also, while we\u2019re still doing solecisms, the women are all horribly overdressed. In real 18th-century Hawaii, we wouldn\u2019t only have been entranced by Ka\u2019iana\u2019s delightful buttocks but also by the even lovelier breasts of all the womenfolk, none of which would have been covered. In fact, apart from when they were in ceremonial dress \u2013 including tall, splendidly cumbersome feather helmets \u2013 they wore little but their elaborate tattoos.<\/p>\n
On the evidence of the two episodes so far, I\u2019d say its main flaws are a slightly ponderous over-reverence \u2013 the scenes telling us about ancient Hawaiian mythology and prophecies go on a bit \u2013 and an undue reliance on implausibility in the action scenes. For example, in one sequence, where Ka\u2019iana has been cornered by his pursuers at the top of an apparently insurmountable cliff, the show gets round the problem by cutting to a scene where he\u2019s now at the bottom, no longer followed, and very handily near a secret cave in which \u2013 extraordinary coincidence \u2013 there happens to be a beautiful female stranger of royal blood who is up for tending his wounds.<\/p>\n
None of this is going to put me off watching. I like rooting for Momoa\u2019s noble, musclebound character (though I doubt his real-life counterpart was quite so flawless); the baddies are properly scary, evil and brutal; and, with seven episodes still to go, there\u2019s plenty of room for expansive adventure before we get to the inevitable epic final battle scene. I hope, for example, they cover the curious episode in Ka\u2019iana\u2019s life where he became the first native chief to leave Hawaii, participating in an expedition with English fur trader John Meares on a 1787 expedition to China.<\/p>\n
You\u2019d probably have more fun being beaten to death with a tiger-shark-teeth paddle<\/p>\n
Tell you what you don\u2019t want to be watching, though: Too Much. It\u2019s allegedly a rom-com \u2013 written by the unfunny and overrated Lena Dunham<\/a> \u2013 and it invites you to sympathize with the travails (largely autobiographical, one gathers) of an overweight, needy, woke, aggressively feminist, generally hateful New York woman who comes to London to live like a Bront\u00eb sister. But you don\u2019t sympathize with her. Not remotely. In fact, you\u2019d probably have more fun being beaten to death with one of those paddles with the tiger-shark teeth sticking out of the sides.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/James_Delingpole-240x2941.png\")
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