Gentleman Jack.

I think the episodes get better and better and Suranne Jones is perfect for her role, very well done.

Suranne Jones is great as Ann Lister. I bet she really enjoyed playing the part. I look forward to every episode. Excellent

Yes, Ann Walker is a bit drippy. I would have thought Miss Lister would have wanted someone more feisty, but perhaps she brings out a motherly instinct in her?

How it comes across to me - no idea if this comes from the diaries - is that Lister is a strong, controlling person who likes her own way, and is attracted to a woman who is dainty, sensitive and malleable (everything she is not!).

Could well be granny tick tick.

Sorry granny ticktOck!

Great programme for Sunday night but a bit slow, can't see how it will keep going for eight episodes. Love the way the galloping music matches Miss Lister's sturdy walk whenever she means business.

Ann Walker is also very wealthy, Ann Lister did comment on this in one of the earlier episodes,

Apparently, AL did use AW’s money to repair and improve Shibden Hall.

I think that the locals are so used to Ann Lister’s ways that they accept it. She grew up amongst them and seems to have been well liked by her peers on the whole.Also, the uncle left everything to her because he knew that she had the strength of character to manage it. In those days, few women would have been able to stand up against the other business people who were then all men.

Starting to get a little bored with this series now. Shame as it started off at such a pace and i was so looking forward to the rest.

Maybe they should have fitted in into six episodes. The endless negotiations with the pit owners are getting a bit tedious, but at least the Ann W story is progressing as she takes her fit of the vapours up North. I am not sure where the budding romance between the two young peasants will fit in, I hope that's just there to give a bit of cheering normality. And I am still enjoying Mt Abbott's awfulness, plus the fact that his name sometimes sounds like Mr Rabbit.

I read up a bit on the real story - after Anne Lister got together with Ann W, they went travelling and hiked up mountains. Her adventurous travels sound much more interesting than the on-off relationship with Ann W. Doesn't look like this series is going to get much further than their eventual "marriage". Wikipedia has a good entry on Anne Lister if anyone wants to read the full story.

Enjoying it, but also find a bit slow, and not sure how the romantic side stories of young peasants fit in. The pig bit was good though!

Ann Lister, like millions of men before her, is choosing her partner for sex, not intellect. Oh, and the money.

Watched Sunday’s episode last night. I think it’s still quite watchable, and although I’m not a huge fan of Suranne Jones, I think she plays a very good part in this. Also think Miss Walker is being played very well

Oh no, the last one on Sunday, what will I watch then? I love the programme and I have read about her on the internet, so I wont spoil it for anyone. x

I thought last night’s episode was good, quite pacy and interesting. I too shall miss it when it finishes,
Personally have no desire to binge watch anything, I prefer to look forward to next episode.
Also looks like Poldark coming up to take over from GJ.

This is exactly what we thought ffinnochio

Too much striding about to folksy jig music. Suranne Jones would make a good Principal Boy in a Pantomime, which is just how it appeared. Very staged.

But we have watched it anyway as it’s fine when nothing much else on. It’s “easy on the eye” and has some interesting minor characters.

For those like me who enjoy the music on show, I discovered that it was written in 2012 by O’Hooley & Tidow. You can listen to it here:
www.google.com/search?q=gentleman+jack+song&rlz=1C9BKJA_enIE601IE601&oq=gentleman+jack+song&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3.11900j0j7&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Full lyrics also easy to find online- Google gentleman jack lyrics

Continuity watch: on the morning when they were saying goodbyes to Anne, her sister, Marian’s brooch changed between the breakfast table scene and the door step scene. It was a cameo and then a plain stone.
I really like the programme but inaccurate details annoy me.

Oh, shall have to watch that bit again, I never notice such things. But I suppose she could have nipped upstairs and changed brooches?

Think I have read that there is going to be a second series

I suppose she might have changed the brooch,but it seems a bit unlikely!!
Poldark?Hooray!!!!!!

I must confess that, as the series has progressed, my sympathy has been with Marian. Who could put up with being second fiddle to Anne Lister? I also like the sub plot of the young man who fed his abusive father to the pigs, I hope it all works out well for him and his prospective wife.

I'm slightly afraid that he maybe queried and questioned!! He must take that guilty look off his face!!!!!!

Another vote for loving the series. Great cast too.

You are correct Franbern, another series has been commissioned..
Yippee, I have really enjoyed this series.