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So far, Britannia has gone lighter on the sex and heavier on the gore and drugs than GoT – you simply cannot move for people ingesting berries, smoking literal weed (moss, mostly) and inhaling hallucinogenic twig fumes and coming too in a ditch reckoning they’ve been to the underworld and back. “Œ, geaytte yeœ!” say all the warring tribes, and continue to live their lives much as before. They are led by Gen Aulus Plautius (David Morrissey), the Romanest Roman you ever did see. There are the Cantii, who are governed by King Pellenor (Ian McDiarmid) and finally, there are the invading Romans, there to divide and conquer the proto-Brits by force, or by holding a referendum or something. She, as sort of Mad-Max-pixie-queen Antidia, is one of several respectable actors who have evidently been drawn to Very Olde Aenglande by Butterworth’s involvement. There are the Regni, ruled by Zoe Wanamaker in a cart. There are the aforementioned druids, led by mage Veran (Mackenzie Crook, in a full set of facial prosthetics that somehow make him look more like Mackenzie Crook than ever).

Britannia is beset with warring Celtic tribes. Tin-based inciting incidents notwithstanding, Britannia clearly has enough in common with Game of Thrones to be aimed at replacing that sprawling brilliance in people’s hearts and on watchlists when the series comes to an end next year. “And we filmed in Prague’n’Wales, not 8 heptillion acres of New Zealand!” And fans of historical accuracy – deposits and druids were real, not legends – can return to their armchairs clutching their battered Gibbons to their hyperventilating chests without having reached even the opening credits. “This is about tin in Kent, not Iron Thrones in Westeros!” read the shadow-runes. Thus epic fantasy fans have their expectations neatly trammelled. Nine decades later, the Romans are back … ” He came face to face with another legend … the druids. Moments into this first joint offering from Sky and Amazon Prime Video, we see white cod-Runic letters on a black background tell us: “In 55BC, Julius Caesar invaded Britannia seeking to exploit the island’s legendary tin deposits. I like a programme that sets out its stall early, and the opening seconds of Britannia, a new 10-part series by writer wunderkind Jez Butterworth (whose play The Ferryman recently became the fastest-selling in the Royal Court Theatre’s history) do just that.

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