A Place to Call Home

[LarrytheCucumber]

Am I the only one watching season 3? I am really enjoying it.

I'm loving the last series and this one, it can be a bit ridiculous, but I'm hooked! Yes it's all very accepting for a time when these things were most certainly not cool.

The thing I was wondering about baby Georgie and the maid Rose, who when she ran off with the baby broke down and said he was her baby, she had the birth certificate to prove it etc. Then she explained her baby had been stillborn. Was it implying that Georgie is actually hers and with the sheet being up etc, that they would have swapped the babies over so she actually got a glimpse of the dead baby?

Hooked on this again. Ridiculous and a far fetched but so addictive.

Ooh I love this drama; alone on the I player wearing headphones! Can't understand why its 'hiding' on daytime TV though. I presume it's a prime time TV show is Australia? (love Dr Blake Mysteries too)

Brilliant show. It tackles all sorts of serious issues such as racism and homosexuality but still manages to entertain. I love the characters and the costumes. It'll be back next year, hurrah.

We have been hooked. Yes, sometimes it does seem far fetched, but aren't a lot of TV dramas?

I am sad it's all over, next series being filmed now apparently.

So re Gino and the maid, are they implying they're now a couple and he's just transferred his affection to someone who's fertile or just that he's looking after her?

I think they probably are heading that way, and of course she will make a more suitable farmer's wife. Although when he finds out she had an illegitimate child...

Do we know whether Sarah is aware that baby Georgy isn't 'Bligh blood'? I don't remember seeing an episode where all that was shared with her?.....
Apparently Season 5 will be set 5 years on from where 4 ended!

I like the strong female characters, especially Elizabeth and Sarah although all the women are good.

I have a soft spot for Doris Collins! Maybe there's hope for her and Roy next season.

Yes I can't remember her being told about baby Georgie, she was a bit on the outer once she was back with Rene so not privy to all the goings on...

I used to find Doris very irritating but like Elizabeth she's had a personality transplant and I rather like her now too!

Well, I felt sorry for Regina at the end. I think the way she was treated by the Bligh family certainly contributed to her mental illness - summonsed by Elizabeth and sent on a mission to discredit Sarah, then sent away after she'd outlived her usefulness but still carrying a torch for George. I felt so bad seeing her all alone in her padded cell in her straitjacket - must have been hell for a recovering addict.

I was a bit worried that everything was going to be resolved = no new series, but the Gino-Anna thing can run for a bit, and it'll be good to see what Olivia does next. Also lots of scope for tensions and bust-ups over Georgie versus David in the inheritance stakes. 5 years on sounds like a good idea (I hadn't heard that) so that things can have moved on a bit. Perhaps Regina will be out of the institution and back to her old tricks...

I wasn't sure what was being implied by Gino and the maid - I thought he was just being kind to her, but that scene at the end... I'll look forward to seeing what's happened in five years.

I see what you mean about the Blighs using Regina, but she went into it with her eyes open, and was using them as much as they used her to begin with.

Eyes open, maybe, but there was also bribery and connivance from Elizabeth, so neither of them was exactly innocent. What I could never quite understand was why someone obviously clever and ambitious should carry a lifelong torch for someone as wet as George. Though I think her part must have been fun to act as it became more of a Cruella De Ville-type caricature.

Anyone else find Anna supremely annoying? I wasn't at all convinced that her adolescent rantings would make a book that anyone would actually read.

Yes, but as someone else said, Elizabeth has had a personality transplant!
I find it hard to believe that a family like that would be so liberal about James' sexuality when it was still illegal.

Probably because of how the situation with her husbands sexuality and his suicide; maybe she realised that another generation on she didn't want James doing the same......yes, I've invested too much time thinking on this

So have we! Every afternoon we discussed the plot twists and character changes. Not so very different from discussing a book, really.

Yes, but as someone else said, Elizabeth has had a personality transplant!

I know, but morphing into Lizzie doesn't make her earlier treatment of Regina any more defensible joins the 'too invested' club.

I didn't find the liberal treatment of James's sexuality hard to believe - I think the upper classes at the time were generally a lot more permissive than the middle and working classes.

In the run-up to this series I watched all the repeats again, and I was mighty impressed by the actress playing young Elizabeth in her brief almost-fling with Jack's dad. She was so believable as a younger version, with all the same mannerisms and quirks of speech.

I have a soft spot for Doris Collins! Maybe there's hope for her and Roy next season.

Yep, me as well - though I'm worried that with it being set in five years' time they may get together in the intervening period because it'll easier for the script-writers and we won't get to see the hows and whys.

So is that the end of the repeats? Do we get a new series soon? I like the frocks but their teeth are much too white for the fifties. 😀

I found quite a lot of interviews with the cast. Apparently Noni Hazelhurst was a presenter on Australia's Playschool. Marta Dusseldorp stars in a couple of other popular Australian dramas. And the woman who plays Olivia has an Australian accent.
(Now who's over invested!)
I expect they will repeat the whole lot when the next series comes out.

Did you not see the episode where Olivia/Arienwen was playing her own grand daughter visiting an elderly Sarah? That's when I realised she was actually Australian ☺

I did the first time round but I had forgotten all about it.

I'm only just catching up on series 3 didn't realise it had been commissioned for anymore