are the shades of PEMBERLEY to be thus polluted?!.....tonight.....'Death Comes to PEMBERLEY'.....

[NewtonMP2100]

.....took a year but here it is.....mini-series based on the P.D. James book....."continuation" of 'Pride and Prejudice....tonight at 9:00 pm on (EST)....


....If there isn’t enough bloodshed in Pride and Prejudice for your taste, Death Comes to Pemberley (premiering this Sunday on Masterpiece on PBS) has murder, a hysterical Bennet (played by Doctor Who‘s Jenna Coleman) and Matthew Rhys (The Americans) as the dashing Mr. Darcy.

Adapted from P.D. James’ novel, the miniseries picks up after the events of the Jane Austen classic, when Pemberley is rocked by a whodunit. In a first look, Lydia Bennet (Coleman) arrives at the estate, screaming bloody murder, and a slap is the only thing capable of calming her down. (Naturally, the excitable Mrs. Bennet is also overcome with hysteria by association.)

Meanwhile, Lydia’s husband — and Darcy’s ex-pal — George Wickham (The Good Wife‘s Matthew Goode) is suspect No. 1. “Am I never to get that man out of my life?” Darcy exclaims...



your good opinion once lost, is lost forever....???

[gabester]

I was really disappointed when I realized that this was a mini-series and that the killer would not be revealed in the first episode...

[eustacetilley]

I didn't care for it, not in the least.
It was plain bad.
I like Austen, I like James, but this Fanfic just doesn't work. Partly, the Direction was so bloody obvious. It's like they rehearsed the Stage Directions thoroughly before they got to the reading of the lines, and once the lines were read just once, they realized what an awful mess it was, but decided to go ahead with it anyway, because they're British after all.
Maybe, once Dalgleish shows up in the next episode, things will tighten up.

Or maybe... Zombies...

¬Eustace

[pdq]

eustacetilley wrote:
I didn't care for it, not in the least.
It was plain bad.
¬Eustace

I disagree. Some of it was frankly a little hard to follow - I had to dig P+P out of my dusty memory in order to keep all the players straight- but I think it expanded a bit on the original in some interesting ways, like playing on Elizabeth's insecurity over her suddenly elevated station in life, and her Palin-esque relatives.

I guess I'll withhold final judgement, but the first night was enough to make me plan to watch the second half.