His Dark Materials

#1

In late July 2018 the cast for the Bad Wolf-produced His Dark Materials was announced and here it is:

f Dafne Keen as Lyra, an orphan

Lin-Manuel Miranda as Lee Scoresby, an adventurer

James McAvoy as Lord Asriel

Ruth Wilson as Marisa Coulter

Clarke Peters as Dr Carne, The Master of Jordan College

Ian Gelder as Librarian Scholar Charles

Will Keen as Father MacPhail

Ariyon Bakare as Lord Boreal

Georgina Campbell as Adele Starminster

Anne-Marie Duff as Ma Costa

James Cosmo as Farder Coram

Lucian Msamati as John Faa

Mat Fraser as Raymond Van Geritt

Geoff Bell as Jack Verhoeven

Simon Manyonda as Benjamin de Ruyter

Lewin Lloyd as Roger Parslow

Daniel Frogson as Tony Costa

Tyler Howitt as Billy Costa

Archie Barnes as Pantalaimonilm

#2

His Dark Materials has been renewed for a second season even though no date has been set for the first season.

#3

His Dark Materials trailer:

His Dark Materials will debut on November 3 2019.

#4

The Lost Boy:
Season 1, Episode 5.
Sympathies on what I am seeing with Will Parry and his mother.
Distressing what Lyra had been placed through after being captured.

#5

The Daemon-Cages:
Antepenultimate episode of season 1.
Intriguing by what goes on at Bolvangar.
Also continues is the situation with Will Parry as he is being spied on.

#6

The Fight to the Death:
Penultimate episode of season 1.
Lyra thankfully survives the fall and eventually reunited with Asriel and what an ending that it leads to.

#7

Betrayal:
Season 1 finale.
Enthralling situation set at the Aurora Borealis with Lyra entering the bridge to the Multiverse.
Quite a reunion between Asriel and Mrs Coulter.

#8

The City of Magpies:
Season 2 opener.
Fascinating on being informed about multiple Oxfords and how they are different.
Harrowing on war being prepared.
Quite a vision that Will has and the attack made on him.

#9

The Cave:
Season 2, Episode 2.
The Cave is what Lyra understand as a computer.
Fascinating when Lyra meets Mary Malone, a physicist at Oxford and what Lyra understand as Dust is dark matter.
Mary sure is enthralled by this meeting with Lyra and hoping she can learn more from her.
Intriguing at the same time the Magisterium declares war on the witches, and starts bombing witch territories.

#10

Theft:
Season 2, Episode 3.
The theft is what Boreal stole from Lyra culminating in a deal that Lyra is forced to accept from him.
Remarkable the episode title is about that one little bit that led to that deal at the end.

#11

Tower of the Angels:
Season 2, Episode 4.
Interesting meeting the bearer of the knife and the lesson he taught.
Intriguing end to the episode with the attack on the Magisterium airships.

#12

The Scholar:
Antepenultimate episode of season 2
What a climax when Lyra and Will’s encounter with Lyra’s mother Mrs Coulter and Boreal and what a moment when Lyra angrily denies to her mother that they are anything alike.
Intriguing that this ends with Mary steps through the window to Cittàgazze.

#13

Malice:
Penultimate episode of season 2.
Enthralling sight of Mrs Coulter encountering those spectres.
Harrowing situation with Lee’s balloon at the end.

#14

Æsahættr:
Season 2 finale.
Pretty enjoyable including Mrs Coulter getting Lyra back.
Surprised there is a post-credit scene with Roger calling for Lyra and Lyra asking what is this place.

#15

His Dark Materials has been renewed for a third and final season.

#16

The Enchanted Sleeper:
Season 3 opener.
Not bad opener to this the third and final season and quite harrowing seeing Lyra being in a drugged state.

This episode is dedicated to the memory of Helen McCrory who had voiced Stelmaria in the previous two seasons and had passed on April 16 2021.

#17

The Break:
Season 3, Episode 2.
Quite a tense situation when Will and Lyra had to get away from Mrs Coulter and surprising how that was resolved.

#18

The Intention Craft:
Season 3, Episode 3.
Not bad this episode about the said Intention Craft and interesting the exchange that took place between Mrs Coulter and Lord Asriel.

#19

Lyra and Her Death:
Season 3, Episode 4.
Creepy premise as it has Lyra and Will literally coming across Death.
Quite a way this very premise was handled.

#20

No Way Out:
Season 3, Episode 5.
This sure delivered on its episode title as things looks dire and it culminates with the bombing of the Land of the Dead.