{"id":13941,"date":"2026-07-18T07:33:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/18\/pompeii-out-of-time-with-tom-hiddleston-the-tale-of-ordinary-romans-hopeless-heroism-is-tearjerking-television-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:33:26","slug":"pompeii-out-of-time-with-tom-hiddleston-the-tale-of-ordinary-romans-hopeless-heroism-is-tearjerking-television-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/18\/pompeii-out-of-time-with-tom-hiddleston-the-tale-of-ordinary-romans-hopeless-heroism-is-tearjerking-television-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston \u2013 the tale of ordinary Romans\u2019 hopeless heroism is tearjerking television Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Avengers star teams up with real-life scholars for a look at the eruption of Vesuvius. At points it\u2019s elegiac and moving, at others it\u2019s majestic and brutal<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always funny when documentaries strategically pair a possibly boring topic with a famous face, just to sex them up. A History of NCP Car Parks By Tinie Tempah, say, or World\u2019s Deadliest Sleep Disorders With Anna Maxwell Martin. So when I saw that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/tom-hiddleston\">Tom Hiddleston<\/a> was hosting a National Geographic investigation into the destruction of Pompeii in AD79 (Disney+, from Thursday), there was no way I wasn\u2019t watching.<\/p>\n<p>The actor has famously sauntered through life\u2019s most vaunted way stations: Eton, Cambridge, Rada, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2017\/mar\/12\/kong-skull-island-review-tom-hiddlestone-unsubtle-adventure\">Kong: Skull Island<\/a>. Privilege and perceived smugness have long been sticks to beat him with. It\u2019s harder to argue he\u2019s not qualified for this job, having earned a double first in classics. Here, he slips into the role of undergraduate detective. A\u00a0real-life scholar is forced to cosplay as his don during their interview, addressing Hiddleston by surname, issuing prim little reprimands. Hiddleston even translates Latin headstones in the first episode. I\u00a0don\u2019t know what the ancient Roman for \u201cscrew it, I\u2019m leaning in\u201d is, but I think that\u2019s what it means.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2026\/jul\/18\/pompeii-out-of-time-with-tom-hiddleston-tearjerking-television-disney\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2026\/jul\/18\/pompeii-out-of-time-with-tom-hiddleston-tearjerking-television-disney\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0b15b8e8ada85ba20fa6f10c52598bcda0befa13\/190_3_2106_1685\/master\/2106.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5decc01ee1bc625cf6d5efe113c07135\" title=\"Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston \u2013 the tale of ordinary Romans\u2019 hopeless heroism is tearjerking television\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Avengers star teams up with real-life scholars for a look at the eruption of Vesuvius. 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