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Britannia Season 3

Created by Jez Butterworth, UK 2021

Acorn Media, £24.99 (DVD)

The outrageously brilliant series about the Roman invasion of Britain (reviewed FT392:66) has now reached season 3 – or, as the title has it, BritannIIIa.

Teenager Cait (Eleanor Worthington Cox), the Chosen One in Druid prophecies that she would unite the British tribes against Rome, has moved way beyond her maverick teacher Divis’s training and has become toughened, self-assured and at times fierce. Threatened by someone, she grabs him and says:

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