The Woman in White - anybody else watching?

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I think Jessie Buckley is good as Marian but I don’t remember Laura being so forward.

I gave up after half an hour. Found it very slow and boring. Usually love a period drama, and sure I've enjoyed previous adaptations.

Very lazily what side is it on?

Nowhere near as good as the book.

Can't see it stretching to five episodes. Jessie B. is good, as always, not so sure about Laura. Walter looks so young!

Is that Peter Beale?

Is the woman wearing a perpetual nightdress wearing a bra? It is a nighty is it not?

It was very slow... l got a bit bored.

Remember reading - and loving - the book in my teens. Switched this off after half an hour.

Not sure about this one - will I stay watching ?
DH is bored with it already.

Not as good as the book of course but I quite enjoyed it. A vast improvement on the "Christie" that was in this slot the last 3 weeks.

Jessie Buckley is terrific but Marian is such a great character. Laura is a drip but then she's a drip in the book (or I thought so). Under the Guardian review, one of the GBTL comments suggested Laura was channelling Steve Nicks .

It also reminded me of a story I read years ago of the heiress who gave the Grosvenor family all their land (may suggest potential spoilers for those who haven't read TWIW)

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When there are scenes across the lawns in front of the house there are no leaves on the trees ie winter , next minute they are strolling in sunny leafy garden, rhododendrons in flower (so June). It was filmed around Belfast, and from the look of it in several localities at different times of the year.
Art Malik and Charles Dance were stars in The Jewel in the Crown in the 80s - must say their acting is v good in this. I'm not sure the rest of it pulls together very well, a bit disjointed.

I'll carry on watching, but find it very confusing (even though I read the book).
Thought the male lead and Charles Dance were well cast, but, oh dear, the sisters!
In the book, Marian was intelligent, but ugly, and didn't wear stays (shock horror - Wilkie Collins hated seeing women in stays). In order to make Marian distinctive, they've just made her walk like Tom Hardy in Taboo (i.e. chanelling Popeye) and sort out her stockings in view of a male visitor. And drink in a terminally anachronisitic fashion. Next episode, I half-expect her to be smoking a pipe and wearing plus fours. It's a shame that modern adapters of classics are so utterly tone deaf. Marian is one of the great heroines of Victorian fiction, and the actress who plays her is wonderful, but she's been given an impossible task.
Her sister is a better fit, but why is she wandering around in a nighty all the time?

Lucy I agree about Marian, I am waiting for her to cry 'By Jove' and slap her thighs!

I loved the book, but this is dragging somewhat.

One of my favourite books, but this is a weak adaptation. Marian isn't subtle enough and Laura wouldn't wear a nightdress all day, especially in front of men. A more rapid pace may have helped.

Oooo I'm currently watching this on Iplayer...might need to read the book now before watching the rest!

I was watching an earlier production with Andrew Lincoln, Tara Fitzgerald and Justine Waddell on youtube.

So much better.

Have got is to watch, I missed it on Sunday. I absolutely loved the book, I'm a bit scared they'll kill it.

I just can’t get past the costumes - so out of kilter with what women would have worn in 19thc(even allowing for them being a bit ‘bohemian’.

Jessie Buckley is brilliant in everything but it’s all a bit meh...

It's a cracking book, but this adaption is a bit meh so far. Agree about the costumes, why is Laura wearing a nightie all the time? And Marion - what a brilliant character in the book - I'm hoping she gets to really shine later in the series. I think her cleverness and ingenuity really emerges later in the story.

I've read the book...And I remember Pescoe being a baddie. I think.

We watched it last night. While it was nowhere near as good as the book, I quite enjoyed it, and am looking forward to the next one.

I’m hoping tonight’s episode is a bit more interesting. The main part I enjoyed was seeing all the filming locations - lots of places that we regularly visit in NI

There was a brilliant adaptation a few years ago I recall, and this is not as good, but I do like a good villain and Sir Percival is a proper moustache twirling dastardly baddy!

and here comes Fosco!

But Fosco in the book is an enormously fat man!

I am watching this and quite by accident realised just in time that it was on again last night. Things have definitely stepped up a gear last nights episode was very tense to watch. I know nothing about the story or the book so I am enjoying it. I like how they flash forward to the investigation so you know things are going to happen but not enough to know exactly what which I think adds to the drama and the tension.