New Trailer For Netflix’s ‘Troy: Fall Of A City’ Aims For ‘Game Of Thrones’ Appeal

Netflix‘s upcoming “Troy: Fall of a City” is a co-production with BBC One, and as such, it has already premiered in Britain. It received largely positive reviews ahead of its British debut, landing at a healthy 70% on the all-important Tomatometer before airing internationally on Netflix on April 6. Here’s the official series description from Netflix:

An epic story of love and war, intrigue and betrayal. When Helen (Bella Dayne) and Paris (Louis Hunter) fall in love, they trigger a chain of events that threatens their families and the city of Troy.

The myths surrounding the Trojan War are over 3,000 years old but have emotional depths and timeless themes of identity, love, revenge and belonging. Troy: Fall of a City grounds these primal myths in vivid psychological truth and explores the universal questions of human existence- how people battle to retain their love and humanity amidst the chaos and devastation of war.

Judging by the series’ new trailer, a so-so effort to put it best, “Troy: Fall of a City” is yet another attempt by Netflix to capitalize on the culture’s love of “Game of Thrones.” The trailer features a bunch of English actors adorned with medieval attire saying grandiose things about power and death and princes and war and stuff; it’s an aesthetic inexorably tied to George R. R. Martin‘s juggernaut HBO series.

But the trailer seems competent enough; if you’re looking for a vaguely Thronesian series to quench your Westeros thirst before “Thrones” returns next year, and you’ve already seen both “Vikings” and “Marco Polo,” it seems likely that you could do worse than “Troy: Fall of a City.”

“Troy: Fall of a City'”s first season drops on April 6. The series is written by David Farr, Nancy Harris, Mika Watkins, and Joe Barton and it’s directed by Owen Harris and Mark Brozel.