“Is that Sissi or 50 Shades of Gray?” : Internet users shocked by the series adapted from the cult saga which revealed Romy Schneider

This Thursday, December 23, viewers were able to discover the first episodes of the event series on TF1 Sissi, a German creation which aims to be a modern and intimate portrait of the heroine so brilliantly interpreted by Romy Schneider in the cult saga of the 1950s. In this series already available in full on the Salto platform, it is the American-Swiss actress Dominique Devenport who lends his features to the young Austrian Empress, who really existed. The German actor Jannik Schümann gives life to his husband Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, alias Franz by his little name.

Series Sissi debated

This modernized version of the myth of Sissi however convinced? Far from there. On Twitter, many internet users expressed their disapproval. There are of course those for whom no one can replace Romy Schneider in the role of Empress Sissi. “Romy Schneider remains unmatched in this role”, “I try, but I have difficulty erasing the myth from my memory”, “The one and only Sissi Empress will remain Romy Schneider, please do not compare her to what is currently happening on TF1“, “What a disaster !”, were we able to read on the social network during the broadcast of the first episodes of the series.

“Sissi or 50 Shade of Gray? “

But above all, many internet users were shocked that the series Sissi depicts the story of the Austrian Empress in a very sexualized way with rather explicit scenes, especially at such a prime time. A somewhat sulphurous remake far from the romantic tone that was the charm of films of the 50s with Romy Schneider. “They don’t know how to do series anymore in putting on sex or what’s it like?”, “She fiddles with herself from the first scene. I’m not a prudish but it’s not Sissi”, “Sissi in a brothel on the train to take a sex education class with the prostitute who did her fiancée some good 20 minutes before? “,” So is it the Sissi series or is it a new version of Fifty Shades of Gray? “…: critics rained on Twitter.