What did you think of The Honourable Woman?

[LauraPashley]

I can't decide! MG for me veered between really good and really annoying. Loved her clothes tho. Is she in a relationship with the nanny?

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

I've recorded it, will report back later...

[PukousMucous]

I agree about MG, at first I thought her accent was good but by the end her voice was so even toned it started to get a bit irritating.

Her frocks were wonderful though. An I'm not sure about her and the nanny, they could have just bonded following something traumatic in Palestine eight years ago.

It's not perfect but I'm certainly quite gripped.

[SnakeyMcBadass]

I think that she is in a relationship with the nanny, and that the little boy is their son.

[PukousMucous]

Oooooh, bet you're right!

[tryingtocatchthewind]

Well my husband thought it was a poor mans' Homeland - I fell asleep half way through but to be fair I'm 27 weeks pregnant so that's no reflection on the programme.

MG was a bit annoying for me.

[mejon]

I thought it was very slooooow. Too many meaningful pauses and I wasn't able to see the M15 man (or whoever he was) as anyone apart from Mooncat's sidekick .

[frostyfingers]

Too many time changes and the whole thing jumped around a bit too much for me. I'll give it a go next week but I do wish that sometimes things didn't have to be quite so complicated.

[AWombWithoutARoof]

Baffling! Why was Maggie Gyllenhaal as a child a have a different skin colour than as a grown up?
Was the boy with the watch the son of Kathryn Parkinson's character and Ephra Stein? Surely not, as again he was far too dark, so is the nanny the mother?
Too many billowing curtains.
I liked the other Hugo Blick thing that was on recently but don't think I'll be persevering with this one.

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

I'm watching now,I can't stand MG's low and patronising voice arghh!!

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

Very

[2rebecca]

I found MG's slow patronising voice irritating as well, very Maggie Thatcher talking to the morons.
I like my plays to start at the beginning so I can follow them and knit/ iron etc. I don't like them to be hard work. It's supposed to be entertainment not work. It was good to have Lindsay Duncan back, I love her and it's always good to see a record on the turntable. I even guessed that it was radiohead correctly (even though I hate them because they are miserable bastards)

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

I won't be watching the rest.

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

I love LD.

We need a good Polliakof drama

[AnyFucker]

it was boring

it seemed to be made up of Maggie G doing various mind numbing speeches and then running in bare feet towards the end

I shan't switch on again

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

It was boring, you're right.

[thecuntureshow]

I liked it.

[BOFster]

I liked it- and something is going to have to fill the Good Wife/Nashville-shaped hole in my Thursday nights, so I will stick with it.

[SquidgyMummy]

i thought it was brilliant - lots of twists and turns. (However the Nessa & Efra as children were so badly cast, I thought Nessa was palestinian, she was so tanned.)

i would say that Casim is Nessa's son - she looked pregnant in the back of the car when the nanny was kidnapped in Palestine. He is probably darker skinned because his father is Palestinian.

I think there will be lots of character development. I also thought MG's accent was v. good

[onedev]

I've only just watched it & think it has potential.

Totally agree re MGs voice though as it was such a boring tone. I will keep watching though.

[OnlyLovers]

Bit early to judge, for me. I will certainly watch the next one.

Liked the frocks and the interiors, and Maggie's hair [shallow]. Her accent/voice is a bit too carefully done though, but a valiant effort.

Loved the moodiness and the look of it. Made me think back fondly to The Shadow Line (one of my favourite telly programmes ever).

[thecuntureshow]

It's by the same director, Only

Yes it's good to see something that is a bit moodier

Think they'll be more character development, and more to read into it.

[OnlyLovers]

Yes, I know (director/writer, I think); that's sort of what I meant, only I didn't articulate it properly.

[OnlyLovers]

Can I ask something else, about the timescale? Did it all take place over one day/evening, or was she wearing the same leopard-print dress for two days?

[mrs2cats]

Not sure. I think I'll watch the next episode and give it another go as the first episode of any new series can be a bit strange.

I found the music annoying, too many pauses, MG a bit too passive and her voice too monotone. Still, I think it has potential and could be interesting.

The same things that confused others confused me eg. the characters as children, who the boy belonged to etc etc.

[couldbeanyone]

Recorded it and just watched, I liked it, think this first episode might have been trying to set the scene, get lots of back story in (there are surely lots of directions different elements could go in). Nice to see a drama with a good female lead as well. Hadn't clicked until reading this that the boy might be her son but it would explain the conversation with the nanny in the restaurant.