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unique1986 · 19/05/2019 19:36

BBC 1 9pm

Well well well Shock

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EachandEveryone · 04/06/2019 23:02

Tipping the Velvet was amazing but nothing can top Oranges for me.

Greeborising · 04/06/2019 23:28

‘Oranges’ was an absolute classic in every way

LoafofSellotape · 04/06/2019 23:30

Oranges was superb.

longwayoff · 05/06/2019 06:22

Just dropping in to confirm Oranges was a superb piece of tv. Must track it down and re-watch.

MorrisZapp · 05/06/2019 12:00

Not sure about the actor playing the abusive dad by the way. He lacked menace to me, I didn't find him scary. The son seemed oddly middle class too. Satisfying outcome though.

Flamingnorahs · 09/06/2019 17:51

Must admit, I've got a major bit of a crush on Suranne Jones as Anne Lister...Blush

powershowerforanhour · 09/06/2019 21:34

When she'd just been down the pit she reminded me of Spencer Murphy's portrait photo of Katie Walsh.
I like Anne's sister Marian, I hope she gets together with the wool chap and lives happily ever after.

DobbyTheHouseElk · 09/06/2019 21:57

Gosh, this is a tough episode

powershowerforanhour · 09/06/2019 21:59

The Rev is gonna get Anne Lister's steel toecapped boot in his bollocks I expect. At the church trustee meeting.

woodhill · 09/06/2019 22:02

So other woman is also Anne?

Did Ainsworth rape her. It was a bit mumbled

Toddlerteaplease · 09/06/2019 22:23

Yes. He did rape her.

legolimb · 09/06/2019 22:29

Ahh.. So Anne needs Miss Walkers money to fund her new pit.

Am pleased that the Sowdens tenancy will keep running.

Chilledout11 · 09/06/2019 22:32

I am glad that Tommy is allowed the tenancy and things were covered up. Ann is troubled as is Miss Lister. Really love it.

CodenameVillanelle · 09/06/2019 22:49

Oh poor Ann
No wonder she is depressed. Women back then had fucking horrible lives.

Toddlerteaplease · 09/06/2019 22:53

I'm glad that she seems to genuinely love miss walker though.

Pebble21uk · 10/06/2019 07:37

When the children went to visit the pigs at the Sowden's I was convinced they were going to find some strange remnant of Mr Sowden (despite reading on here there would be nothing left!!!)

'Mrs Sowden' was in The Durrells... Louisa's best friend married to the doctor - can't remember her name!

MyOtherProfile · 10/06/2019 08:39

I was a bit worried the kids would get in with the pigs and have a similar ending!

HildaTablet · 10/06/2019 12:31

I'm still enjoying this and reading the companion book is useful as background (also AL's diary), but I was a bit Hmm at the very 21st C advice over Ann Walker's depression meted out by the doctor, 'Steph'. It wasn't much different to anything you'd get from a GP today, whereas in the 1820's/30's they'd surely have been a bit less right-on.

Steph was actually the brother of AL's former lover Mariana; had that been mentioned? If so I didn't catch it.

percheron67 · 10/06/2019 12:37

Tried to watch (again) last night. Still completely put off by Suranne Jones and her gurning. Her acting hasn't grown since Coronation Street - she cannot get into character. How on earth she is offered so man roles defeats me. Wish I could say differently.

LoafofSellotape · 10/06/2019 12:38

Yeah,the depression advice was a load of nonsense ,wasn't it?!Hmm

HildaTablet · 10/06/2019 12:49

I don't mean the advice itself was a load of nonsense. What I do mean is that it was anachronistic for the early 19thc.

It would be good advice by our modern standards. But would a doctor of the time not be more likely to prescribe, say, leeches or some horrendous remedy involving mercury or something we now know to be toxic....?

howwudufeel · 10/06/2019 12:50

The point was that the doctor was before his time which is why Ann chose to take Anne to see him.

LoafofSellotape · 10/06/2019 13:03

It would be good advice by our modern standards. But would a doctor of the time not be more likely to prescribe, say, leeches or some horrendous remedy involving mercury or something we now know to be toxic....?

Or whipping her womb out due to hysteria?!Shock

LoafofSellotape · 10/06/2019 13:04

Oh the advice was fab,but was surprised to hear it from a doctor back then,but makes sense if that's why Anne saw him.

humblesims · 10/06/2019 13:35

I thought that was a cracking episode. I've been really enjoying the series so far. I think SJ is great. I think I was starting to take it all a bit for granted by last episode and was assuming a 'mundane' reason for her dismay at the death of Mrs A or that her reasons for not accepting AL immediately were more to do with societal expectations etc and was taken by surprise at the revelation that she had in fact been raped by Mr A. I hadnt seen it coming and thought they handled the revelation really well. It made it start to be a much deeper story than I had been previously been giving it credit for. Cnt wait to see what AL does with Mr A! I think I'll have to read the book/diaries.