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Aveline

If you haven't read the books you'll have no idea how disappointing this production is.

Not true.

I have read the books. I was not disappointed !

No, not true at all Aveline. I’ve read the book several times, and I thought the spirit was captured really well - Linda was spot on.

As the Queen said in response to Megan's truth, 'recollections vary'!!

Seeing Aunt Sadie’s table manners was a bit of a shock!
Perhaps nobody at the BBC is aware that aristocracy would never wave their knives and forks around whilst speaking.

Aveline

As the Queen said in response to Megan's truth, 'recollections vary'!!

Opinions vary.

I was looking forward to this I love period dramas and I like Lily James but I thought the programme was ridiculous.

I've never read the books so had no pre-conceptions to puncture.

We laughed out loud throughout it and I want to see more of Merlin.

I've read the book. Don't think you should judge a production on how you feel about the book (so many Pride and Predjudice productions would bite the dust). It stands as a producion and it was funny.

Don’t we all (Merlin, that is!). I think it’s very rare for an adaptation to please someone that’s loved a book as we have such a personal image of it in our heads. Captain Corelli Mandolin was my biggest disappointment although years later I can watch it and enjoy it. I thought The Time Travellers wife was good given that it was such a difficult book to adapt.

I thought it was completely ad, took me back to Brideshead.

I would continue to watch it even if I hadn't liked it simply because Andrew Scott is in it!

I’m a great fan of the books*. so didn’t expect to enjoy it, but I did.
Disappointed not to hear Uncle Matthew utter his ‘immortal’ line, though - ‘Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.’ ?

I once saved Love in a Cold Climate to re-read while in labour with dd2. Nurses kept coming and asking what on earth I was laughing at, since by then contractions were getting on well, so to speak.

I did stick it out but that's another hour wasted.
Where was the comedy ? Apart from the scenes Dominic West and Andrew Scott were in it was dire.
Far too much attention on Lily James as in close ups etc. plus the fact I didn't feel she came across as credible.

Wait till Fabrice arrives. Mmmmm!

Wasn’t Tony revolting! Some good acting, not least being Fanny.

It's many years since I read the book and I enjoyed it. It seems to have avoided the sort of "reimagining" that is so popular now with plots and characters being changed beyond recognition (Yes I am talking about you Sarah Phelps).

I think Linda could have been prettier but Andrew Scott makes up for any shortcomings!

I loved everything about it, including the soundtrack.

Back to the books, I think, although, oddly enough, I hadn't read this one, just the sequel which I pinched from my Mum, so that was a very long time ago .

Gave up - life's too short !

Not how I thought it would be but didn’t hate it. I don’t like the modern music - doesn’t fit at all. I will watch it again next week just to see. I love Lily James in everything.

Loved it .Found it great fun and sheer escapism. Wonderful acting.

I thought the modern adaption was a breath of fresh air and like others lighthearted glorious entertainment. Full of fluff and fun

Saw the clip for it, no thanks. Jane MacDonald, such a breath of normality, cruising that’s for me. As a former cruiser on a Princess ship, took me back to more pleasant times.

Best bits for me were the sets and the costumes and the punk band playing D'ye ken John Peel.

Otherwise, DH and I couldn't make head nor tail of it. We found the Linda character to be annoying, to say the least. I didn't catch the comedic aspect at all. We watched the whole hour in case we suddenly 'got it'.

I might give it another go next week to see whether it improves.