Mid Winter of The Spirit

It clashes with Dr Foster but I've already lost interest in that so I'm looking forward to it.

I am going to record it (then skip the adverts)
Don't tell me the ending - although I have probably read that one anyway.

I hope they filmed in Herefordshire and didn't relocate.

Apparently they did film it in Herefordshire rosequartz! Looking forward to it - couldn't care less about Dr Foster after two lacklustre episodes.

I'll give it a go!

Well, it wasn't bad, but being on ITV, so many ads spoilt the atmosphere, I will have to record it I think, to avoid that problem.

If I have a grumble, it is the usual: most of the characters did not have local accents.

The social worker, vicar, ward sister, canon, bishop etc all had middle class or stereotypical accents (ward sister was Irish). The 'deliverance tutor' is reassuringly northern.
The police officers had northern accents.

Only the local 'yokels' spoke in 'Herefordshire' accents.

Does that portray RL in Herefordshire?
(oh, I forgot, this is not Real Life!)

The ward sister in the book is Scottish, she appears in other books as well, as does the detective, who is from Liverpool ( and is meant to be) other characters may or may not be from the area. Gomer Parry is from the area and a few others, but not Lol Robinson, or Merrily and her daughter Jane.

You will hear more local accents ( hopefully) as the series goes on.

Bloomin' scary. Loved it!!

Thanks for starting this thread roses as I'd missed this programme, yawned through Dr Foster!
I've just watched it, and I love it, it's right up my street! I love getting goosebumps!

I watched it and loved it but a bit puzzled as I am half-way through the first book in the series and I'm assuming the first episode in the tv series is a story further along the line.. or is it all just in the writers interpretation?

According to my tv mag. the first episode is based on the second book in the series!

It has been said that "Midwinter" is the start of the series even though it is the second book. I do think it means we miss a lot of the back story though.

The actress playing Merrily did not look like her, she is described as "very pretty" which although she is an excellent actress, is not how I would describe Anna Maxwell Martin and wonder if churchwardens would lust over her; maybe others see her differently. Jane seems to be playing the annoying 16 year old - who has recently lost her father and had to cope with her mother going into the church - very well but the Bishop was supposed to be one of the Blair type trendies so I wait to see if he fulfils this. Huw is just as saw him.

There are characters which will develop as we go along no doubt my one worry is something I may have misheard. Was the chap who seemed to be Rowenna's social worker addressed as Mr Robinson? No I must have misheard that.

I put the subtitles on Gracesgran
(still not sure, um, er)

Yes, it may have been better if they had started with the first book, but perhaps this one is more scary. I think I missed this one, must have jumped from one to three in the series.

For those of us who haven't read any of the books, it did seem rather as though we'd missed the first episode and were plunged into the storyline without any proper introduction to the characters!

Scared me to death as I was watching it alone in the house.

Can wait to be scared again next week.

I really think it would have been better to have spent the first half of the first episode giving a bit more background.

Are you stalking me RoseQ ?

Be very afraid

(I hadn't noticed actually, am I?)

I thought it was me she was stalking, Anya!

I'm going.

Inocuous hobbies beckon
(and Frank Gardner later)

ps It's because my family came from Herefordshire


Thee hast no call to take on that a way

Go and get your own stalker Ana and stop pinching mine!!

Lol Robinson becomes Merrily's 'squeeze' in later books, but is not a social worker but a musician ( guitarist) and is thin and white!So a bit of a change there.Who knows what other bits of poetic licence there are.