The Night Watch adaptation

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for Sarah Waters fans, 90-minute adaptation of The Night Watch on BBC2 tonight 9pm

I have set a reminder now I just have to make sure the dc are in bed.

Thanks for reminding me too! I'll be watching

That was beautiful, heart rending, and the characters spot on. Duncan and Helen, especially, were precisely how I'd imagined them. And Anna Maxwell Martin is amazing.

But a bit quick! The book is so rich and full of nuance - would have been served better by a two or three parter I think.

Yes agreed - I want more. What has Claire Foy been in before?

Wasn't she in Upstairs Downstairs?

I'm recording it to watch tomorrow - part was filmed outside my flat!

Being Human, Little Dorrit, and Upstairs Downstairs, according to her interview in yesterdays Observer.

Claire Foy was also in The Promise - she was brilliant in it

Loved the book. Can't wait to watch it!!

Watched most of it last night with a bit left for tonight, loved it.

I really loved it, its one of my favorite books that I have re-read about 4 times. I too felt it was a bit rushed and should have been a one hour for each period I think. The characters/actors were soooo well cast - just as I had imagined each one.

I love the BBC!

I watched it yesterday and I was almost crying by the end of it!! The casting was perfect. Why didn't they do it as a three parter though? Some series they drag on but this one wouldve worked out beautifully. What Sarah Waters books haven't been dramatised now? I'm trying to think.

Oh I recorded it and just watched it too. Very good I thought.

There's meant to be a film being made of The Little Stranger tho' I don't know when. The rest have all been on television now.

I thought it was very rushed. I agree, a two-parter or even three hour/50-minute episodes would have been better. It was quite good but not overwhelmingly so. I liked JJ Feild particularly, and I thought the period clothes and make-up were excellent.