South Riding

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I'm excited - I didn't even know it was on, and it's got David Morrissey in it - my Sunday evening is complete

Obv I mean in the hotel bedroom, where he had some kind of fit. Not in the general 'problems in the bedroom department' sense.

I have to say that tonight's episode made me distinctly uneasy. Rape as punishment.

And Anna Maxwell Martin who is supposed to be a strong feminist character is ingratiating herself all over the shop

maybe angina - I looked up amyl nitrate and that's what it's used to treat apparently.

LB - absolutely. The romantic hero is a rapist....

ssm - do you know that amyl nitrate is poppers? Used to be v popular in gay clubs. I never knew it had a legitimate use

yes, I knew people at uni who took it for fun.

he addicted to amyl nitrate ......

came up in a previous episode.....

during a moment of solitude and distress he reached for the tin ......

Often addiction can be relatd to whats available . Im assuming it has some vetinary use so as a gentleman farmer he had access to it .

Looks like he inhales it .

Im guessing he missed his usual fix ...due to the evenings exciting events . and so was having withdrawal s

I am absolutelty loving this series . was gutted last night when realised only 3 episodes .

Mr Carne is just adorable despite his faults , the story about the clever lass whos mother died had me in complete shock .

Just love it .
has anyone read the book

I've read the book - it was brilliant! Thorougly recommend!
I thought Carne had a heart attack, but but I'm now wondering if it was asthma - he couldn't seem to breathe properly.
at Huggins's pregnant mistress burying the dead baby ... I can't remember if that happened i the book.
Sarah is 10 years older in the book, nearer 40 than 30 I think. Anna Maxwell-Martin is great in the part though.

My Maternal grandmother had puerperal insanity after my mother was born. She was in and out of hospital as my mother grew up and was finally sectioned in 1933 when my mother was 11 years old. She died in the same hospital in 1974.

I remember her well as we used to visit the huge victorian hospital . I have a letter that my Grandfather wrote to her in the 1960s when drugs had improved and she was so much better ( although never well enough to leave hospital, in the letter he explains that he had divorced her and remarried. My mother qualifed as a psychiatric nurse and got a job at the same hospital but Granny died before she took up the post. Such a sad story.

I can remember being very frightened about having a baby in case I was like her.

I've been dipping into the book and it was angina.

I feel better about the inappropriateness of rapist as romantic hero now I know what actually happens in the end (though I won't say what it is an spoil it for people.)

Peter Firth's accent deems him to be the love child of William Hague and Jimmy Saville.....

I've read the book. Funnily enough my very Tory father insisted I read it as he thought the female protags were so strong.

What did you mean about the book being angina, sethstark?

Abr1de she meant the pain Carne was suffering from in the hotel room was Angina.

Oh, thanks, gotcha! (Obvious, really, )

Trumpton - so sad about your grandmother. Although good to hear that she at least seem to have some peace of mind in her later years.

I looooove this. Really wish it wasnt just 3 episodes. As soon as finishes will read the book.

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Ooh that was great in the end. Really enjoyed this evening's episode

Me too - not expected at all - Go Lydia

Loved the heroine and her clothes feistyness...

Was the horse on the beach a good actor or was it stuffed?

At the end of the day, i think Midge made the right decision too - although i hope someone tells her of the hereditary condition her mother and grandmother had...and how sweet that her mother came home...

That horse was great, thudding its head down on the sand like that (you can train them to do stuff like that but it's quite impressive)

And yes, was great that Mrs Carne came home :)

SPOILERS RE. THE BOOK.

Oh dear. Perhaps I've had a glass too many to post but I'm absolutely furious, with the annoying self-righteous rage of someone who feels a well loved book & its characters have been trashed and misrepresented.

Please read the book if you don't know it.

I am so angry that the final scene between Sarah and Carne was reft so entirely of its charge. In the book neither mentioned the hotel scene, it was the elephant in the room generating a most spectacular and tragi-comic row (including Sarah denouncing him as a provincial Mussolini and pointing out a ladybird crawling up his collar) - and it sparked some of the most poignant moments of the story. I was so looking forward to David Morrissey saying "she's a grand lass, I wouldn't miss quarrelling with her for a great deal"

I'm thorougly annoyed with the scene at Carne's funeral. Gossip AT the interment and Sarah signalling oh so graciously to the vicar to proceed once she'd had her say? Purleeeeze!

Penelope Wilton who IMHO was miscast did finally IMHO morph into Mrs Beddows, it helped that we finally saw a bit of her home life, but she never got to put Lord Sedgmire in his place - huh!

I haven't read the book, but feel unsatisfied with the bbc series. It felt like it should have been twice the length at least, with the characters expanded more.

But it has made me want to go and read it, so maybe the adaptation is good for some things :)

Talking of unfinished - Bessie wasn't in it at all last night was she? I also think it felt very rushed i.e. the older woman coming to help with the family - it all happened too quickly.

Loved it!!!

But thought the end of the last episode was really rushed, in my emotional state I could hardly keep up with all the loose ends they were tieing up for us.

bloocow I agree, I am definitely going to read the book now! But I wish it had been longer, it felt very rushed... just as I was getting to like the characters it ended!

I also found it rushed. Perhaps the Beeb was trying to make it feature film length with an eye to selling it worldwide.

Surely the strengths of a series are that you get to know the characters. We knew Sarah the most but didn't really understand her politics etc.

As Carne was so two-dimensional I found it hard to lie him, presume in the book he's far more impressive. Much preferred the commie Scot.

Oops - like him (poss freudian slip re David Morrissey )