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There are saws, and then there are saws.
Historian Dick Harrison made a sweep of Svenska Dagbladet last week (10/21) with TV4’s new “historical documentary series”, “The Queens”, and in particular the first episode of the series about the wife of the Erik XIV’s queen, Karin Månsdotter.
After “sawing” you can step into literary lust murder, after reading Dick Harrison’s opinion bar debate article, you probably want to exclaim: What a slaughter, what a slaughter! As they say: Take no prisoners.
And you have to admit that he does it with style and facts, but it’s all clever.
Result that Dick Harrison’s wife, Katarina Harrison Lindbergh, is the one who a year ago blogged and reviewed David Lindén’s book, “Karin Månsdotter. The Queen’s Revenge ”, on which TV4 largely bases its portrait. He wrote somewhat in the shadow of his own research on Erik XIV and his recently published book “The Nordic War of the Seven Years 1663-1670”.
Doesn’t everything remind you of a real court plot?
It was missing the Karin Månsdotter book by David Lindén.
She is now also missing from various blog posts on TV4’s “The Queens”, but it is her husband Dick Harrison who writes the article on Svenska Dagbladet, a bit like a news agent. They may not want your wife Katarina Harrison Lindbergh to appear to speak for herself.
Now I can ease that forgiveness: it does. It looks like that.
Historian David Lindén is finally mentioned in Dick Harrison’s text, somewhat condescendingly, as the “history writer.”
Don’t remember everything about a real hovintrig? Academic battles (and Dick Harrisson knows a lot about them) appear to be as poisonous and murderous as medieval royal crowns.
If you look at Dick Harrison’s CV and bibliography, you’re probably right not to address the subject itself (and I promise you, I do; he and his wife Katarina seem to be on their feet), but the question of what they can and cannot do (or can) say in a historical drama documentary perhaps it is also about interpretation, about facts.
I don’t say that, I just ask the question. According to Dick Harrison, there is no compromise there. So you have to do fiction, directly.
And perhaps it is the true crime of TV4, that at all costs it has been called “Las Reinas” for “a historical documentary series”.
One wonders like Dick Harrison: What is it?
When you talk about Drama documentaries, there is a kind of recognition in the rise itself. We’ve dramatized something that we really don’t know for sure, and I’ve written it before and will write it again – I’ve probably seen a hundred dramatic documentaries and can’t recall any completely successful ones. It is an extremely difficult way.
So now TV4 is making a “historical documentary series” about Swedish queens and unsurprisingly they have given themselves, the writers, the director and the producer the reins quite loose and free. They have taken the right to “interpret”, complete and, of course, fanaticize, although in a historical direction.
I email my friend, the history teacher, and ask him what he thinks about this with the story dramatized on television. He writes: “I really don’t believe in the sharp line between fiction and reality. The line is now quite perforated. “
I watch episodes 1 and 2 of “The Queens” and very early on it is very clear that you take great historical liberties. It is thoughtless, when it does not appear to be pure hopelessness.
It’s a bit like going to a masquerade with the theme “Vasaätten”. Beards and wigs hang a little at an angle and after a couple of glasses, everyone has forgotten that they are in costume. That’s when it gets really fun.
Read more chronicles of Johan Croneman, for example “Why does SVT have so little faith in viewers?”.
