Le miserables

[Doobydoobydooyeh]

Anyone watching? Not quite the same without the songs!

Cosette is a product of her upbringing but so annoying.

"I hate you!"

Alright Kevin, calm down. 🙄

It was the fainting when she met Marius in the garden that made me chuckle!

Cosette and Marius are both a bit wet

they don't spoil a pair!

Yeah the fainting was ridiculous.

Don't do musicals 😁 really???!!!!

Feel like this week’s episode was the best for providing your own soundtrack from the musical. Eponine’s death scene was perfectly paced for ‘A Little Fall of Rain’ You can’t tell me that’s a coincidence?!

I swear I can hear tiny hints of the mysical's melodies here and there but I must be imagining it. It's just so easy to hear them when some of the speech is similar to the lyrics.

they don't spoil a pair!

I don’t think Val Jean had anything to worry about with that wanted poster- it looked nothing like him!

I last saw Dominic West in the Affair so this is a big change , but I think David Oyewelo steals the show - brooding, calculating, with an aura of menace, and that's without doing anything, I think it's the way he staaaares and the set expression. I haven't seen him in anything else - though no doubt he's done a lot.

Has anyone else notice that Javert and Valjean haven't aged much even though the series has moved on about 20 years'

Valjean had slightly more grey mutton chops. Javert zero aging.

I don’t think Val Jean had anything to worry about with that wanted poster- it looked nothing like him!

I thought this too! As if anyone was identifying him off that.

Why did Javert think Jean Valjean was leader of the revolutionaries? Did he have any reason to think that?

Fantastic adaptation, managing to be loyal to the huge novel but keep a good pace. Most gorgeous Javert I've ever seen .....

Bestiswest - I think it’s just meant to show the depth of his obsession with Valjean.

I think it’s just meant to show the depth of his obsession with Valjean.

I agree.

Ah ok, I thought I’d missed something.

Am loving this thread and saw the musical in the West End last weekend (last saw it in 1986!). Couldn’t get over how much they miss out - we were through the first 2 episodes in about 20 mins!

Anyway although I agree that Marius and Cosette are both rather wet and drippy, I wanted to say that as an example of Josh O’Connor’s amazing acting, you should see the British film ‘Gods own Country’. It was billed as a Yorkshire Brokeback Mountain but it was more than that - a grim depiction of rural farming life and the utter relentlessness of it all. His role was superb - he seemed to physically alter as his character developed.

But he’s still drippy as Marius. They will be very happy together.

Marius and Cosette are one of the wettest couples in literature, and that's saying something in a world which includes Romeo and Juliet.

I like J,O C. He's great in the Durrells

The tv show has caught up with my reading, which is good and just in time for the finale .

Cosette is supposed to embody a kind of purity, isn't she? She's been taken out of poverty, put in a convent but still sequestered away from the world. I think at the beginning of the book Hugo talks about moving from evil and poverty to goodness and redemption (very badly paraphrased, I'm sure). Marius is supposed to be a bit of a dreamer and sliding into greater and greater poverty. But I agree, it makes them kind of wet.

Cosette and Marius were pretty drippy in the book though. I’m enjoying this so much. I really like the way Éponine and Gavroche are being played- musical Éponine is too good to have survived as the Thenardiers’ child, it makes sense for her to be a bit harder, and I like the way Gavroche is slightly menacing and unsettling rather than an Oliver Twist style cheeky chappie. And it was so effective the way they built the tension in episode 5. They managed to convey “One More Day” perfectly. Love it.

We started watching the series last night and loved it so much we've got up to date in 24 hours. We've really enjoyed it, having never seen the musical or film, nor read the book. I've never fancied it as a musical, I only seem to like the flashier musicals generally (phantom/lion king). Can't wait for the last bit!

But yes Cosette and Marius are a real pathetic pair - how they're ever going to cope as a married couple I've no idea.

That poster of Jean was funny, nothing like him, and still sId he would be with a little girl!

I cried when she took the bullet for him.

Little people know...😭