TV review

Julian Fellowes never wrote a truer word. The past is indeed a strange country, at least as it is portrayed in this new six-part costume drama which begins in the Regency era and moves swiftly into the Victorian age. I am not over familiar with Julian Fellowes’ oeuvre although I have watched a couple of […]

CONTAINS SPOILERS Woah! Despite my best feminist self, I feel a tiddly bit cheated. I’ll dive straight in. Lord Babington woos Esther with a carriage drive. She takes the reins and has a right old laugh. That’s more like it! Georgiana warns Charlotte not to believe a word Sid says. “Oh, give over,” we hear […]

CONTAINS SPOILERS! We’re on the home stretch now, folks! All the main characters have decamped to Sanditon for the regatta. Hurrah! But after the shock revelations that Sid’s heart has been broken by Mrs Campion, Char is in a mood. It doesn’t get better when the said ex turns up in Sanditon, all London airs […]

CONTAINS SPOILERS! We’re galloping along at an amazing speed. Plus there are stunts (well, one). So, off Char pops to London alone, as you do, in search of her abducted friend Georgiana Lambe, armed only with Otis’s address on a scrap of paper. Of course London is all lurching drunk poor people who want to […]

Folks, we’re still in Sanditon! On the sandy beach! Basically, four things occurred: THE CRICKET MATCH The set piece is a village cricket match – Gents v Men – (which says a lot in itself). The whole event is very touch and go because hopeless Tom Parker hasn’t paid the Men, who are threatening to […]

CONTAINS SPOILERS I was expecting we would all be off to London this week, but alas we were confined to the increasingly claustrophobic Sanditon. OK, there was some ‘liberty’ and Char and Georgiana were not the only ones taking it. Anyway, back to the action, such as it was. Char and Georgiana told Mrs Griffiths […]