I’m going to be upfront about my ignorance of medieval French history. The medieval setting is the more perilous of the two, despite the semi-automatic weapons in 2005. In 2005, a renegade priest and a woman who (mistakenly, as it turns out) believes herself to be a navigator are trying to hunt down the relics. In 1209, Alaïs’s sister, Oriane (Katie McGrath), wants the books and Grail, and convinces her Catholic husband (Curran) to help her get them.
The Grail’s protectors (Alaïs, Alice, and John Hurt’s character, Audric Baillard) are known as “navigators.” However, all we actually see them protecting/hiding are three books which contain instructions on how to locate the Grail. Yes, Labyrinth is, ostensibly, a story of the Holy Grail. We are alternately in medieval and contemporary Carcassone, and the heroines are alternately in danger as they pursue and protect the Holy Grail. She finds two skeletons, one of which bears a golden ring with an intricate design-the titular labyrinth. In 1209, Alaïs lives in Carcassone, a city of the Languedoc province in 2005, Alice helps excavate the former site of Carcassone. Labyrinth-which originally aired in Canada, Sweden, Korea, Portugal, and Poland in 2012, and the UK in 2013 it aired here last Thursday and Friday on the CW-features two heroines, Alaïs Pelletier du Mas (Jessica Brown Findlay) and Alice Tanner (Vanessa Kirby), who are separated by about 800 years but are connected by geography, history, and maybe something else. And neither the miniseries nor the source material gets that right.
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