Poldark

[NaokoSmith]

Apparently the BBC remake of Poldark is going to air in the States on PBS in June.

Gosh, if you are at all fond of period drama, you must definitely watch it! It's another BBC classic. There are lush shots of beautiful Cornish landscapes and seascapes, bosoms heaving in tightly laced dresses and dramarama a-plenty. Some classic lines, like when Demelza offers Elizabeth cornflowers and Elizabeth says: "Oh no, they don't last very long. Look, they're already fading." I like the way the natural world is woven in to the action in a kind of pictorial metaphor, as when Demelza and Verity are riding to the town, and there are cobwebs as fragile and sparkling as ... *cough*, anyway, you must watch it!

Oh, and there's Aidan Turner too! You get to see Aidan Turner skinny-dipping in the most beautiful Cornish cove *gulp*.



(None of you Brit fans spoil it for me! I have been watching it on i-player and I still have two episodes to get through.)

 

[suckonsimon]

Seconded. I've loved the series.
Further: the exposure of the crass of social prejudice is so effectively done.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Poldark isn't my thing, Ms Smith, though it has garnered rave reviews over here. But I think Wolf Hall should be airing in the US about now, and I suspect you might also enjoy that very much as a costume drama. Some of the acting is for the ages.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Poldark isn't my thing, Ms Smith, though it has garnered rave reviews over here. But I think Wolf Hall should be airing in the US about now, and I suspect you might also enjoy that very much as a costume drama. Some of the acting is for the ages.

Awww, Wolf Hall isn't on i-player any more . I did hear it was very good, maybe I can get it from the library.

(Uh ... Dr. Smith but you may call me 'Cuddles'.)

Seconded. I've loved the series.
Further: the exposure of the crass of social prejudice is so effectively done.

There is a lot of great class action in it, isn't there! I love the contrast between Demelza and Elizabeth, and how they are both wonderful and are actually nice to each other ... don't tell me if they don't go on being nice to each other! remember, I still have two episodes to fit in.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Awww, Wolf Hall isn't on i-player any more . I did hear it was very good, maybe I can get it from the library.

(Uh ... Dr. Smith but you may call me 'Cuddles'.)

No, Dr Smith, I meant it should be showing live. Here.

 

[NaokoSmith]

No, Dr Smith, I meant it should be showing live. Here.

Can I watch that from the UK? (I am so slow about these online things.)

 

[49greg]

I watched some of original Poldark episodes back in the 70s I think. They inspired me to read the books. I re-read some of the books again just a few years ago. Not sure I want to see the new version, with the old version still in my mind.

I loved the names they had, Rowella, Demelza ... etc. always thought they were very beautiful names.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Can I watch that from the UK? (I am so slow about these online things.)

I'm so sorry - I rather assumed you were in the US.

 

[stickygirl]

I loved Wolf Hall and Poldark: they are both worth hunting out. The cossies and bare chests add something but the story lines and acting did it for me

 

[desertslave]

I loved the original Poldark and I'm eagerly awaiting the remake.

Wolf Hall has been very good. My only complaint is that many of the indoors scenes are very dark and difficult to view. The costuming is excellent.

I posted in the "Crap we watch" thread about my new favorite, from this side of the pond...Turn: Washington's Spies. First season is on Netflix.

 

[stickygirl]

I loved the original Poldark and I'm eagerly awaiting the remake.

Wolf Hall has been very good. My only complaint is that many of the indoors scenes are very dark and difficult to view. The costuming is excellent.

I posted in the "Crap we watch" thread about my new favorite, from this side of the pond...Turn: Washington's Spies. First season is on Netflix.

There's a follow up documentary with the Wolf Hall film makers in which the director specifically asked the cinematographer if it was possible to film with just candle-light! Apparently the thinking was that that was how it would have been and that the darkness added to the underlying intrigues as compared to the dazzling brightness of day, when all was 'show'.

Damian Lewis never fails being hot, but I always want to put moisturiser on his bottom lip

 

[NaokoSmith]

There's a follow up documentary with the Wolf Hall film makers in which the director specifically asked the cinematographer if it was possible to film with just candle-light! Apparently the thinking was that that was how it would have been and that the darkness added to the underlying intrigues as compared to the dazzling brightness of day, when all was 'show'.

Damian Lewis never fails being hot, but I always want to put moisturiser on his bottom lip

Can I also apply for the job of putting moisturiser on Damian Lewis's bottom ... I mean bottom lip

(Hullo, my dear )

 

[stickygirl]

Can I also apply for the job of putting moisturiser on Damian Lewis's bottom ... I mean bottom lip

(Hullo, my dear )

I don't see it as a job so much as a vocation... even a hobby

hellos back

 

[NaokoSmith]

I don't see it as a job so much as a vocation... even a hobby

A hobby-horse?

<snerk>

 

[Weird Harold]

I loved the original Poldark and I'm eagerly awaiting the remake.

Do you mean the original 1975 series, or the 1996 remake? (PBS will be airing the 2015 re-remake.)

I was stationed in England in the mid seventies and watched the first run of the 1975 version -- I don't remember much beyond the name and that it was the best thing on English TV at the time.

 

[NaokoSmith]

I watched some of original Poldark episodes back in the 70s I think. They inspired me to read the books. I re-read some of the books again just a few years ago. Not sure I want to see the new version, with the old version still in my mind.

I loved the names they had, Rowella, Demelza ... etc. always thought they were very beautiful names.

Do you mean the original 1975 series, or the 1996 remake? (PBS will be airing the 2015 re-remake.)

I was stationed in England in the mid seventies and watched the first run of the 1975 version -- I don't remember much beyond the name and that it was the best thing on English TV at the time.

Guys, you must give the new series a go. It is seriously beautiful. The filming has managed to capture that limpid light that is the reason so many artists live in Cornwall. The scenery is absolutely beautiful. I didn't see Wolf Hall so I can't compare but the acting is very good.

I feel so sorry for the Cornish! they are going to be flooded with grockles*, as if they weren't already.

(*grockle - Cornish/Devonian word for tourists.)

 

[RedStarFic]

I preferred Wolf Hall, as has been mentioned the acting was sublime. You know the outcome but still you flinch when heads roll.

Poldark is just a vehicle for Aidan Turner to take his shirt off, right?

He will always be Mitchell from Being Human as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Can I watch that from the UK? (I am so slow about these online things.)

If it's US-only, I recommend a little thing called Tunnelbear. Basically, a VPN^W trained bear digs a tunnel from your computer to the USA (or other nation of your choice) so when you try to connect to PBS it looks as if you're located in the USA. Very easy to install and use, and there's a free trial option. Life-saver for those of us in .au who like to watch BBC etc.

Also, it has lots of bears.

 

[NaokoSmith]

If it's US-only, I recommend a little thing called Tunnelbear. Basically, a VPN^W trained bear digs a tunnel from your computer to the USA (or other nation of your choice) so when you try to connect to PBS it looks as if you're located in the USA. Very easy to install and use, and there's a free trial option. Life-saver for those of us in .au who like to watch BBC etc.

Also, it has lots of bears.

The bears are really nice and that sounds like a cool bit of stuff.


(Do you mind repeating that thing about VPL and W toilet-trained bears in a husky bear-like voice? I love hearing about technical things )

 

[stickygirl]

The bears are really nice and that sounds like a cool bit of stuff.


(Do you mind repeating that thing about VPL and W toilet-trained bears in a husky bear-like voice? I love hearing about technical things )

I know, he gets me all hot n bothered when he does that

Some of the Cornish pixies got miffed that they chose a pile in the Cotswolds for one of the stately homes. The Cornish is of course another part of the realm that wants to go it alone ( like Scotland, Wales and Islington ) and create their own realmdom based on something pre-Magna Carta. Frankly, they're welcome: getting to Cornwall down its one A-road is a bore.

On the topic of locations, Wolf was offered some period castles in Belgium of all places but, I'm moistened to say, the producers didn't think it was at all British.

Are we going to give Oggy the bumps
or the humps?

 

[stickygirl]

If it's US-only, I recommend a little thing called Tunnelbear. Basically, a VPN^W trained bear digs a tunnel from your computer to the USA (or other nation of your choice) so when you try to connect to PBS it looks as if you're located in the USA. Very easy to install and use, and there's a free trial option. Life-saver for those of us in .au who like to watch BBC etc.

Also, it has lots of bears.

The only thing to be beware of is that TB confuses iCal or anything connected to Google calendar. I get numerous emails from G telling me someone from another country is trying to sign in to me account. I suppose the NSA isn't bothered about me watching YouTube though

He will always be Mitchell from Being Human as far as I'm concerned.

He'll always be Kili to me

 

[Equinoxe]

I can't say that I've ever seen any version of Poldark, but I am inordinately fond of period pieces, to the point of even being able to enjoy bad ones (not that that, one hopes, is relevant here), so I may watch it.

I must, on the other hand, agree about Wolf Hall, or what of it I've seen thus far; it's wonderfully subtle and something of antidote to the common trend of period pieces being more an excuse to show bosoms heaving in tightly laced dresses than anything (not that there's anything wrong with heaving bosoms). I even like the darkness of the interior scenes and wondered if they hadn't filmed it like Barry Lyndon.

On the topic of locations, Wolf was offered some period castles in Belgium of all places but, I'm moistened to say, the producers didn't think it was at all British.

So the BBC weren't going to make that mistake twice.

 

[Wicked6]

I first came across Aidan Turner (pun VERY much intended) in the Irish tv series The Clinic, while channel surfing late one night. I was instantly smitten. Those dark eyes beneath his perfectly arched eyebrows.... OMG!!!

I nexted visually devoured him in Desperate Romantics, and again, I was mesmerised by those brooding dark eyes matched this time with mid-19th century dress.... DAMN!!!

Now, as Ross Poldark, we find him clad in late 18th century military and civilian clothes.... FECKIN JESUS!!!!!!!!

Tom Mison in Sleepy Hollow also knows how to rock the late 18th century look... HOT DAMN!!!!!

 

[NaokoSmith]

Australian chums, I think Poldark is already airing on ABC1? Does that include the equivalent of BBC Iplayer? so you can catch up?

This is a must-see for anyone who likes
a) period costume drama
b) nice scenery beautifully shot
c) Aidan Turner
d) a bit of bosom heaving
e) surreptitious class politics
f) subtly double-entendre dialogue

...
Actually I could go on quite a lot, anyway, watch it.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

thinking of angharad rees.ollection

I inherited my mother's collection of Poldark DVDs (and her UK DVD player). If the new series is half as good as the old, it will be fantastic. Bare muscular male chests sound good.

I'm sure my father had wet dreams about Angharad Rees.

No iPlayer but I guess HBO will buy it soon.