Le miserables

[Doobydoobydooyeh]

Anyone watching? Not quite the same without the songs!

I didn't know she was Phil Collins' daughter either. I think she looks like young Audrey Hepburn.

Ermmmm queen, I think that counts as a rather large spoiler!!!

Oops! I honestly didn't think there was anyone who didn't know the story. I'll get my post deleted.

Probably for the best! I think I did know/ worked it out from joining dots as it goes but we can't assume and it was left as a cliffhanger

I nearly shouted at the TV, don't let then pull your teeth out.
Fantine is a bit slow sometimes!

I think so too Deadringer. It's her eyebrows. Not being mean to ol' Phil well I am really but his wife's genes must've won.

I don't think Fantine is the brightest. The creepy letter writer man was right. She did it the wrong way around.

I take that back about Phil Collins! I can see Lily in both her parents here. He's not how I was picturing him.

As an aside, I have a massive soft spot for Phil C! I can see the likeness more here.

The creepy letter writer man was right. She did it the wrong way around.

Yes, but hair grows again, and she thought she was respectable, not a prostitute, like women throughout history. When she sold her hair, she still didn't quite believe she'd have to sink even lower. And them she found she did. She would have probably got by if she hadn't trusted the Thenardiers. (Or never trusted Felix.)

Oh yes Iam, the eyebrows!

EBear you're right. Easy to see with hindsight but living it she went for the better of two evils hoping she could avoid the worst one altogether.

I was a bit annoyed that they had Valjean sacking her. In the book, he doesn't know, which is all part of the tragedy. If she had gone to him, he would have helped.

In the musical it's the foreman who sacks her but I wasn't sure whether that was changed from what happens in the book in order to make Valjean a more sympathetic character.

Queen that's what I was thinking. I was sure that in the musical is wasn't JVJ who sacked her.

New on here, watched the latest episode on catch up 😁 loving every min.

I love Lilly playing fantine - I think she's beautiful and plays her innocence really well. Someone has put about her age, I haven't read the book but from the first episode I got the impression she was around 16 years of age, at the beginning of episode one there is mention from her friends she was just about old enough to join them for the evening out (I could be wrong). Can anyone confirm this is right and she was a teenager when she met Felix?

@undomesticgodde55 I just checked the book, Fantine was 19 when she met Felix, and was with him for just under 2 years. She left Cosette with the Thenardiers 10 months after Felix left, when she was 22; round about Cosette's 2nd birthday. (Hugo describes Cosette as being "2 or 3 years", but looking at the timespan she would have to have been just turned 2.)

I'm loving this, very well acted. Poor Fantine

I think I'm gonna have to buy the book 😃

What's a foundling?

I love the musical. I'd love to go see it again.
I didn't think much of the film.

I think this series is good. I think it's a good complement to the musical actually.
I first saw the musical when I was a teenager? Younger? I can't remember I know I loved it and I know I didn't really get the story till years later I just loved the music

Purple a foundling is a child abandoned by its parents and looked after by someone else.

I got the book free on the kindle app a few years back. Might still be there?

I'm loving it. I've only seen the film so getting the back story is brilliant.

It's possiblepossible back story is one the film but I get so lost in the music (and Eddie Redmayne ) that I may have missed it

Eddie Redmayne reminds me so much of Kermit the Frog, I just can’t 😂

he's odd looking. But there's just something about him...

I cannot wait for the next episode. It is amazing. I absolutely love the musical. Didn’t like the movie at all. Kept thinking how great Susan Boyle’s version of I dreamed a dream was compared to Anne Hathaway’s.