The Durrells season three

[CeciliaMiddleton]

Coming back this Sunday! Will anyone be watching? www.culturewhisper.com/r/tv/the_durrells_season_one_and_two_recap/11226

Shame, I liked her. The tactless funeral director was funny, though, as was the haunted bed. Poor Daphne and Leslie.

We are staying in a villa a few mins away from the Durrell White House in June. Never been before so am so excited as I love this series.

Lucky you, Crispy! It looks gorgeous!

I also wish they'd kept Aunt Hermione in longer. As she wanted to settle there why didn't they bury her there? The memorial service was hilarious.

I really enjoy the series. The characteristics of each of them that could be irritating, aren't. Every problem is solved, don't mind that. Locals speak astonishingly good English, fine. I want a Spiro to ferry me about & solve things.

The cast really do seem to get on well. Love Gerry & Margot. Bet though that Lawrence stays in England & I won't be able to enjoy the sight of him in shorts in a hammock.

I love it. Gentle humour, beautiful scenery and where everything works out for the best in the end.

I thought it was a bit crappy that Leslie refused to marry the pregnant Daphne, and his mother was happy to go along with that. At that time (pre-war) even in England, but especially somewhere like Greece, that would have pretty much ensured her life was ruined. By becoming an unmarried mother she would have been disgraced forever, and probably nobody would ever have married her.

It would have been understood that the honourable thing to do would be to marry her. If he was too young and not ready for fatherhood, and not in love with her, tough luck, should have been more careful!

I think the writers are imagining it is happening nowadays, when society has changed.

I totally agree, Pemba. In fact, even a young woman who had been engaged to marry and had then been jilted would have been looked upon as “damaged goods” in those days. It certainly happened in Spain, for example. And we’re talking about young women who had never even been kissed - let alone been impregnated.

Cruel times.

That said, I’m willing to put aside my disbelief for the most part, as the series is so entertaining. Even when Lawrence says such anachronistic stuff as “I wouldn’t kick any of them out of my bed!” when looking at photos of Leslie’s girlfriends.