Anyone going to watch The Paradise at 9pm?

[lighthousekeeping]

It does look good. I have a feeling I've read the book.

Yes, it's one of the Rougon-Macquart books, but one of the few I haven't read. So I'd love to know if the programme captures the novel at all (suspect not).

I'm going to take a look at the next episode, just in case it does improve.

i shall watch this on my own and drool admire Matthew McNulty.

watched this last night, it made me feel sleepy, it was a bit slow. but i might persevere

I really wanted to like it because it was supposed to be a bit like Larkrise but I'm finding it a bit boring. Nothing is happening! (although my DH said the same about Larkrise)

I'll watch it next week but if it's as boring as last night's episode I'll give up on it.

I still like it. Nothing much happened in last night's episode but, by that time in the evening I'm feeling tired anyway and struggle to follow a complex drama :o

Oh it was much better last night; Laura from Lark Rise was good (she didn't swallow her lines like a number of them). The clothes and the lighting were better, it was more sexy. I enjoyed Sarah Lancashire being wound up falling for the main man I'm not sure he's very fanciable though; he looks like the baddie in Popeye; that beard .

I thought the second episode worse than the first. There are some dreadful reviews around too. I found this one likening it to Acorn Antiques, particularly amusing.

"In fact, viewers may have puzzled over The Paradise being based not on its retail soulmate Acorn Antiques, but on the novel Au bonheur des dames by Emile Zola. If the radical French novelist were still alive today, he might well be tempted to use the words ?j?accuse? once more."

Why the actual fuck did no one tell me that this was based on one of my all time favourite books? Thanks family

Is it shite then? TV adaptations usually are.

Gwendoline, think Lark Rise to Candleford gets a big department store and some of the cast go to work in it. It's ok, but it probably bears as much resemblance to Emile Zola's original work as the tv version of Lark Rise did to Flora Thompson's novel.

I still quite like it, not quite as much as I did the first episode, but am still watching it. Probably the only person who is, though :o And I have to confess that I fell asleep during last week's episode. DH said I didn't miss much :o

tedious is a good word for this programme. unfortunately. it is ok if you are looking for somethign to send you to sleep

Bumholes :(