Lord Barkwith Cfnm Site
Second, the production values are alarmingly uneven. The manor location is genuinely stunning, but the sound mixing is amateur. In several scenes, Barkwith’s mumbled apologies are drowned out by the clatter of a real tea trolley or, inexplicably, birdsong from outside. The lighting is flat and unflattering to everyone, which is a particular sin for a genre built on visual contrast between clothed elegance and naked vulnerability.
Sadly, the good will generated by the first half hour evaporates under a series of self-inflicted wounds. Lord Barkwith Cfnm
The premise is promising. Lord Barkwith (played with genuine, if awkward, commitment by the man himself) inherits a crumbling country estate only to discover the deed is legally contested by a collective of sharp-tongued, impeccably dressed descendants of the manor’s original steward family. Their condition for settlement? Barkwith must submit to a series of “forfeits” – each one engineered to leave him naked and flustered, while they remain fully clothed and in control. Second, the production values are alarmingly uneven