The latest in the long line of English aristocracy dramas that vary between smoldering and smutty is here with a fresh new take on the genre.
As the organizers of the annual debutante ball in Pipsford-on-Lakeshire-near-Castleton are finalizing the list of this year’s ingenues when a mysterious message arrives announcing a late entrant- Lady Mighterzia Stusselfround, hoping to make her first appearance in high society. The entreaty is quickly dismissed with chuckles all around: the Stusselfrounds barely ranked as nobles and had but a small keep at the very edge of the realm. The family hadn’t participated in court matters of business or leisure in decades, and the letter is dismissed as a prank.
On the night of the ball things are proceeding as usual, until the butler interrupts, his eyes wide and face drained of color, to introduce Lady Stusselfround with a stammer. As all eyes turn toward the door she enters, her sizable musculature stuffed into a generations-old ball gown; at over six feet her figure towering above most of the other guests. As the room is staring and taking in the scene Lord Fauntleraunch is the first to break the silence by pointing and laughing, dubbing Mighterzia as more “Lady Musclebound than Stusselfround” and our heroine is off, grabbing lord and lady alike and slamming them around the ballroom. It’s Beowulf meets Bridgerton as the aristocrats get pounded into aristosplats until the remaining nobles cowering in the corner apologize and let the lady have her dance with one of the gentlemen in attendance. Will Lady Stusselfround find love or just sate her bloodlust? Why can’t a lady have both? Find out in this limited series, the first to feature Yuen Woo-Ping as both the fight choreographer AND intimacy coordinator in an attempt to court male viewers to the genre, later this summer.