Poldark 2015

[eighthobstruction]

And rescuing flame-haired damsels?

....I might be too busy looking brooding....

[Nick Armstrong]

....I might be too busy looking brooding....

If you could run to a spot of smouldering, that might fit the flame hair rather better!

[eighthobstruction]

If you could run to a spot of smouldering, that might fit the flame hair rather better!

....after this post I'll be dashing around looking for some kindling....<more a Susan George man myself really emoticon>

[Richard Tarleton]

AA Gill has confounded my expectations by giving it an excellent, and hilarious, review in the Sunday Times.

[Anna]

It made me laugh, particularly the hairy hero, who apparently some people find attractive.

Well, he's got lovely curls and a social conscience, what more could you want?

I wonder if the first episode was a little rushed, I would have liked a little more scene setting so I wasn't too impressed, I'll see how it develops tonight. I have to confess that years ago I had a series of Spring and Autumn holidays in St. Just and Botallack and I did start reading Poldark, I'm not sure now how much of the books I recall, but I found the history of tin mining quite fascinating (a lot of Cornish tinners eventually emigrated to the S. Wales collieries) and spent days just walking and exploring the cliffs and mine workings with nothing more than an OS map and a pasty in my rucksack! I'd really like to go back, it's so beautiful and the sea is always so blue.

(I also liked Aidan Turner in Being Human and as Dante Gabriel Rosetti in Desperate Romantics)

[Nick Armstrong]

AA Gill has confounded my expectations by giving it an excellent, and hilarious, review in the Sunday Times.

Can you give us non-subscribers a few non-copyright-endangering sample funnies?

[vinteuil]

Can you give us non-subscribers a few non-copyright-endangering sample funnies?

"What follows will be heart-pounding, high-camp, operatic melodrama of the very best sort. The new setting is eloquently depressing, there’s wall-to-wall mud, the lighting and the editing are pacy and a cut above, and, against all my greatest expectations, Poldark looks like it’s going to be that slice of Sunday-night escapism that Tristrams and audiences yearn for, but so rarely give each other.

The thing that makes it is the casting of Aidan Turner as Poldark, Eleanor Tomlinson as Demelza and Heida Reed as Poldark’s lost love. Turner and Reed are proper eye candy — swooning, trouser-rearranging, phwoar, booty stars; and Tomlinson’s Demelza will probably scrub up nicely..."

[AA Gill}

[Nick Armstrong]

Many thanks!

I did think that Aidan Turner's acting was in a class above the rest of them (most of whom, especially the decrepit house-servants, were doing the usual mummerset gurning in 'provincial costume drama')

[Richard Tarleton]

There was also some gratuitous winding-up of the good people of Cornshire at the start - 'Cornwall is always a worry. Whenever a character says, "I'm going home to Cornwall" or "Let's go and live in Cornwall", you know it's going to end badly......' and so on for about half a column

[vinteuil]

"Everybody in Cornwall drowns, sooner or later — sometimes both. Or they get sucked into a bog: bog-sucking happens a lot in Cornwall. And thar bain’t much drawing-room sophistication, dry epigrams, tinkling laughter, double entendres or witty flirtations in Cornwall. No one laughs with you, they just laugh at you, but not in a humorous way. Cornwall is twinned with misery and mud, and festering — everything festers bitterly, then it drowns..."

[Serial_Apologist]

Turner and Reed are proper eye candy — swooning, trouser-rearranging, phwoar, booty stars

[AA Gill}

Could be straight out of Kevin The Teenager...

[greenilex]

Nevertheless, the kernel is there, isn't it?

[Nick Armstrong]

"Are you interested in rigging, ma'am?"

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

all swoon & moon & awful

[eighthobstruction]

"Are you interested in rigging, ma'am?"

....tee hee indeed....

....it's just a romp isn't it....