It is all for one and one for all for The Musketeers. (From left) Athos (Tom Burke), D'Artagnan (Luke Pasqualino), Porthos (Howard Charles), Aramis (Santiago Cabrera) and Captain Treville (Hugo Speer). Photos: BBC
You may wonder if we need yet another retelling of Alexandre Dumas’ 19th-century novel The Three Musketeers. After all, it has been retold so many times on screen that watching yet another adaptation would seem like watching a rerun.
In this BBC adaptation, called simply The Musketeers, the show’s creator Adrian Hodges assumes that the audience is well-versed with the lore and plunges our characters into the action straight away. A good move; it doesn’t give viewers time to reconsider before they are snared by its many charms.
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