bbc1 9pm In pursuit of love.

She was more interested in Andrew Scott!

I thought it was delightful, and bonkers. Love it.

It's ok. The characters are portrayed as one dimensional ( so they will appeal to all?).
I'll see it to the end, but only if I knit at the same time!!?

Did anyone else notice that after Tony made his speech in the House of Commons he draped himself along the bench in the Jacob Rees Mogg pose?

Yes, I did, Deedaa. I visited Australia just after the JRM incident and caught a great photo of a kangaroo in that louche pose!

I haven’t read the book and nor had my dd, with whom I was watching. We enjoyed it a lot, I suppose because we had no great expectations. My dd loved the clothes the women wore.

I have just watched the first two episodes and I love it. It is indeed bonkers.

It's not working for me. Lily James is miscast and isn't really capturing Linda's charisma and yearning for something that always seems just out of reach. She's playing her like an angry petulant child. The actress playing Fanny is at least as pretty as Lily if not more so. The constant voice over signals a scriptwriter a bit out of her depth and resorting to telling not showing.

And I really wish Linda and Fanny would stop pawing each other.

I'm curious about the warm reviews it's getting in the English press. It's received a fairly poor reaction on social media and my cousin, who lives in Ireland, says the press reviews there are in line with public reaction.

You only have to read this whole trail to get the picture I think Beswitched. It’s like Marmite, you either love it or hate it, views are in about equal measure!

And I really wish Linda and Fanny would stop pawing each other.
Just goes to show that no matter how many hints you drop (and some of them are very broad) some people just won't get it!!!

Sorry...I haven’t trawled through nine pages of posts, but started watching this last night. Got about ten minutes in, and couldn’t stand it any longer.
To say it irritated me beyond words is an understatement!

I still like it a lot. It’s different and refreshing but in my view stays very true to the book.
Andrew Scott is fantastic.

She's playing her like an angry petulant child at the risk of repeating myself, Lily James is too botoxed to have facial expressions to carry the young Linda.
So the acting resorts to pouting or open mouth to express her emotions.

Andrew Scott is fine bit he is hardly in it. He just blows in cigarette in hand, bangs on about Linda's behaviour, and flounces out again.
There is no empathy with any of the characters.
They are supposed to be large than life characters, but these have no depth to enable the audience to really gain insight and begin to empathize with their position.
How anybody younger than 40 is supposed to get how truly exceptional it would be to travel to Spain, or to dump your child, I do t really know.

I'm all for pastiche, but I was bored with Linda running here there and everywhere and missed the last few minutes making a cup of tea!

Casdon

You only have to read this whole trail to get the picture I think Beswitched. It’s like Marmite, you either love it or hate it, views are in about equal measure!

On this forum yes. However across other forums it is getting a pretty negative reception.

trisher

^And I really wish Linda and Fanny would stop pawing each other.^
Just goes to show that no matter how many hints you drop (and some of them are very broad) some people just won't get it!!!

Are you speaking to me or about me Trisher?

I can’t see much evidence of negative reaction exceeding positive reaction Beswitched, but we may not be looking at the same forums. As I said before, you either love it or hate it, it seems - both equally valid views.

Well I dont hate it, I just feel disappointed.
I expected more from such a prestigious cast and script writer!

I suppose I feel short changed.

On women’s education, my mother’s teachers recommended that she should go to university (in the early to mid Thirties). Her father’s response: certainly not, he had her three younger brothers to educate, and they had to take precedence. I don’t think any of them was recommended to try for university.

I've gone from really liking it (episode 1) to loving it (episode 2). I haven't seen any evidence of overwhelmingly negative reviews anywhere, though it does seem to be poliarizing. The viewer reviews on IMDb give it 6.5, with lots of 1/10s and also lots of 10/10s.

Only just watched the final part last night.

Having read and enjoyed the books more than once, I really enjoyed it, ditto dh, who’d had no idea what to expect.

IMO it was pretty faithful to the novel. I can see that anyone who hadn’t read it could easily think it overdone or exaggerated, but by today’s standards there was a lot of what would be considered outrageous now - and I dare say was when it was first published.

I still remember a particularly outrageous remark in one of NM’s other novels - a relative coming to visit someone who’d just had a baby that had died.
‘Oh, so the poor little baby died, did it? Still, probably just as well, children are such an expense nowadays.’ ?
NM did note appalled shock on the face of a nurse who was present, though.

MerylStreep

Could one tell me where I stand in the pecking order as I don’t have a fireplace or mantelpiece ?

Do you have a looking glass or a mirror? Do you wear scent or perfume? Do you have a lavatory or a toilet? Do you wear spectacles or glasses?

I wish that they had made a longer series and included the Montdores, their daughter Polly and cousin Cedric from Canada. I guess it was because of the additional cost. Perhaps the BBC could put the earlier version on IPlayer.

I love it and the music is brilliant.

Watched the final episode last night. I haven’t read the book.

I found Linda extremely irritating, and wondered why everybody else ran round after her, worrying and fussing over her welfare.

What did she live on in the months she was at Chelsea? Did she get an allowance from ex husbands or her family, as she never appeared to do a stroke of work her entire life.

If I had read the book, I expect it would have made more sense.