Man in an Orange Shirt

[Greenteandchives]

Did no one else watch this? I thought it was so so beautifully done.

I enjoyed it. Patrick Gale's book are wonderful too always very moving. He writes about live so very well.

Thought last weeks was good, but didn't enjoy this weeks until the last ten minutes. Who was the bloke in the red coat in the first episode?

Saw this. What happened to the middle generation I.e. Grandson's parents.

Help - our telly cut out for the final ten/fifteen minutes, what happened? Did they revisit the grandfathers story at all?

I really liked part 1 but found part 2 really badly written, scripted and acted and cringed my way through it. Was expecting a lot more subtlety but found it really clunky. Julian Sands, his acting is so OTT, especially when he opened up the painting, I cringed! The 0-100mph relationship of the two male leads, the granny's reaction to him being gay. The portrait was shit too, looked like painting by numbers. The way the boyfriend stormed off without even a discussion - please.

I can't sleep and I'm unnecessarily annoyed by this!

I missed the middle bit too.

I thought that Vanessa Redgrave looks much too young to be playing someone who was born in the early/mid 1920s, she looks like a war baby like my mum, not like someone who got married in 1945. But I suppose that few actors of that vintage are working today.

I wondered what had happened to his parents - Robert and wife. I don't think it was explained, but maybe I missed it.

I loved the scene where she discovered and destroyed the letters. I thought it was brilliantly done. The way she handled it i.e. covering up for the sake of appearances even with her laid-back sister, was true to the era, along with her question about whether he'd be a danger to children.