The Pursuit of Love

[NurseButtercup]

Oh the absolute irony of the words of the character played by Dominic West in this trailer!! Wasn't he start shagging Lily James when he was filming this TV series???

This will be on BBC from 9th May - looks good.

[EuroTrashed]

Also - as if aunt Emily and Daley would have been put in the same room by Sadie before (& prob even after) marriage, and then left the door open in a house as cold as that. Though since all the christmases were fined in summer...
the Rosamund pike mash up of the books captured the spirit of it alp so much better

[LadyEloise]

dayswithaY - "All the giggling bath tub scenes and hints of lesbianism was very tiresome."
Agreed.

It's ok. I'll watch next week. Not a binge watcher and don't have BBCiplayer.

This adaptation is of it's time, 21st century, like "The Great".

[RickiTarr]

@thefemaleJoshLyman

So, Christmas 1927. Deciduous trees in full green leaf. I know I'm a pedant but this really annpys me!

TBF, filming was delayed by lockdown one. The whole thing was thrown into mayhem. I’m surprised to see it broadcast already.

[Forestdweller11]

The sound track is to be found in BBC sounds . Excellent.

[CaptainMyCaptain]

@Butterbeers

How many women called Linda were around in 1920ish?

That's what she was called in the book. I'm sure Nancy Mitford knew what she was doing.

[CaptainMyCaptain]

@OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow

Was that the Pogues?
Continuity bloody awful. Horrible characters.
Now Mitford’s fan girling over Hitler isn’t the worst thing about her.

That was her sister, Unity.

[RickiTarr]

That was her sister, Unity.

Also Diana.

[Newgirls]

@LWOTT

It doesn’t feel like what we all need at the moment. Who gives a shite about posh people all played by Emily Mortimer’s friends and family.

Agree. The novel has its place but do we need this ‘women are so naive’ story at the moment? Is it a uk fantasy to better times?!

[CaptainMyCaptain]

@RickiTarr

That was her sister, Unity.

Also Diana.

Yes. But not Nancy.

[Popetthetreehugger]

I watched under sufferance , I have the need to shout trollop when ever I see LJ and tosser if I see Fred west ( but that’s just me 🤷‍♀️) but even so , it was an hour I’ll never get back , sadly .

[ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere]

I sort of enjoyed it. I think casting Linda properly is an absolute nightmare. Fanny loves her because she knew her as a child, and she has to grow up from a very childish 16 or so to a 30ish woman who’s been through a lot but never really grown up. Our sympathy for her is perhaps greater if we see her as the child of an abusive environment.

[LadyEloise]

@lollipoprainbow "I can't watch Andrew Scott without being reminded of Declan Donnelly !!"

Reading this, I decided to look up his Wiki page. The photo on it makes him look like a mash up of Ant and Dec. Ant's forehead with Dec's face. I never noticed it before. Other photos of him I can't see it.

[RickiTarr]

Yes. But not Nancy.

I just hate Diana wriggling off the hook.

[HarkAVagrant]

I nearly gave it a swerve because of this thread - if so many people hate it it must be rubbish indeed, I thought - but watched it anyway, and enjoyed it . I thought it captured the tone of the book, although admittedly I read it ages ago, and do get it muddled up with Homs and Rebels.

[HarkAVagrant]

Hons! Not Homs

[Clawdy]

I have no sympathy whatsoever with Diana and her dreadful husband Mosley, but I did think it was sad that when she was interned it was without her children, including her eleven week old son, still being breastfed. She didn't see them for two years. And Nancy gave evidence in secret that led to the internment. Her sisters didn't find out for years.

[RickiTarr]

Agree. The novel has its place but do we need this ‘women are so naive’ story at the moment? Is it a uk fantasy to better times?!

I think it was that it was literally ready to start shooting when COVID hit and so all the pre production costs were already sunk and the industry was full of skint freelancers who weren’t working so they just went as soon as they could.

You’re supporting the British TV industry by watching, which is no small thing in both the age of COVID and the age of the streaming giants.

It’s why I’ll give it a go tonight.

[Mistlewoeandwhine]

I don’t like Lily James.

[SoupDragon]

What makes you think they made a programme for people who managed to concentrate all through the book?

Again. Rude.

[RickiTarr]

@Clawdy

I have no sympathy whatsoever with Diana and her dreadful husband Mosley, but I did think it was sad that when she was interned it was without her children, including her eleven week old son, still being breastfed. She didn't see them for two years. And Nancy gave evidence in secret that led to the internment. Her sisters didn't find out for years.

I didn’t know the bit about Nancy giving secret evidence. I don’t actually blame her, but what a position to be in.

I’m not sure what I think of DM in Holloway.

I’m a huge fan of old documentaries and from time to time Julian Amery (MP, foreign office, MI5) turns up on one from the 70s or 80s as a talking head. His brother was executed at Wandsworth Prison for treason straight after WW2. There were probably quite a few stories we didn’t get to hear that families nevertheless did know about from that era. All the aristocratic appeasers and Hitler fans didn’t simply evaporate in ‘39. Sorry I’ve shot off at a tangent. There is a poignancy there, though.

[SoupDragon]

That quick cut editing is also for the short of attention span

It's just a "design" point. I'm surprised you can't see that with your oh so superior intelligence.

[myfuckingfreezer]

There was an interview in the guardian with Lily James which seemed to suggest something sexy going on between Fanny and Linda which I am not looking forward to if true


Given that they're cousins, that would be pretty grim!

[Janaih]

Managed 15 minutes of this shite before switching to Netflix. Eccentric posh wank clearly for the American export market.

I'm now disappointed in Dominic West professionally as well as personally.

[BillStickersIsInnocent]

@HemanOrSheRa

I'm still watching. Is anyone else? What happened to Fanny's hair? Did I miss something?

I loved it.

But bemused by this too - Fanny’s hair changed from long and wavy to a short bob with a fringe during the scene at Christchurch. Must have been deliberate but why?

[Zzelda]

Lily James and the other one are far too old, why couldn't they find some talented unknowns aged 19 to play the leads?

Maybe because they don't stay 19 throughout the book/series? I can't really see a 19 year old playing a 29 year old that convincingly.