Julian Fellowes' Belgravia - starts tonight, ITV1

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Anyone planning on watching? I loved Downton so I'm looking forward to this. It might be just the sort of escapist drama featuring posh people in nice frocks that we all need right now!

Was almost exactly the same as the book. I agree with the comments about the rushed last episode. At least is was better than Beacham House and Sanditon....wasn't it?!

I binge watched Harlots whilst I was off sick. This is a little, ahem, dull in comparison. The cast must have been cringing at every line. River scene was hilarious.
But I enjoyed it.

I liked Sanditon. It was fluffy nonsense with Theo James stripping.

Also pleased to see the happy ending. They should have made the final episode feature length though. I would have liked to have seen the reactions to the great revelation as pp said.

(I watched it last night) It was Harrods Dickens to me Clawdy Call The Midwife had much more believable 'dirty by the Thames' scenes. Those men would've been left with the worst poisoning after breathing in the Thames water in the 1840s , they'd 've all effing died !!!! It was literally an open sewer!!!

Sorry that put the tin lid on it for me!!!! A pile of dodo!!!!!

@alittleprivacy I agree, this really annoys me too, you spend ages getting invested in the plot and then you dont even get a chance to listen in on the characters finding out! This was also the same in Downton so now I've worked this out I lower my expectations!

No way would they all have got out of the river alive. And as a PP said, it was an open sewer, only a few years away from the 'Great Stink'

The book is even more improbable. When first pushed in, the long lost grandson (have forgotten name) can’t get back out again because there’s a ten foot wall of sheer, slimy brick, and then starts to drown because of his heavy clothes. By the time the son jumps in to save both the others, he is not only able to drag both of them across the river (all still in heavy clothes) but somehow scale the start of the wall until someone lets a rope down.

I thought it was brilliant and quite tense at times. I really wanted a happy ending, so cant really complain, but it did feel a bit...twee the way they all sat round the table at the end congratulating each other on how well it all turned out.

I thought Mrs Trenchant and Lady Brockenhurst were fabulous and I liked that they became friends.

Extra Hilarious I liked the way they dripped into the posh salon and had a cup of tea instead of going stinkingly downstairs into the servants' hall (with washable lino) or up to the bathroom to take off their clothes and being hosed down or whatever, they would have been so smelly and filthy!!!!!

Yes Room I did enjoy Mrs Trenchard's [Tamsin] happiness when she realised that her grandson was legitimate. The cheek of the moaning mother of his fiance when she covered up her vileness at the dinner. She should have had a proper comeuppance IMO.

I think quite a lot of people fell or were pushed into the Thames in victorian London. The great stink was a particular event.

What was more poisounous were the street pumps supposedly providing fresh water to those who didn't have running water where they lived.

And probably the cause of this was not the Thames but all the minor rivers that fed into the Thames (like the Fleet) that were covered over and once underground no longer flowed properly, and were used to dump rubbish etc..