Julia - on sky anyone watching?

[Netaporter]

I loved the film with Meryl Streep playing Julia Child but this new series staring Sarah Lancashire as Julia Child is just fabulous. Sarah Lancashire is a brilliant actress but is outstanding in this role. Great cast supporting also. Anyone else watching?

Can't believe it's nearly two years since the first series!

I'm waiting until I get paid later this month to renew my NOW membership so will catch up then with series 2.

@Southeastdweller i know! Definitely worth the investment of the membership. I don’t really know why they didn’t release it weekly like S1 or why it was so far behind the US release which was in November?

@TottersBlankly i didn’t see that thread, thought it easier to let everyone who watched s1 know ;-)

I renewed my Now TV membership for one month and I confess that I have binge watched them all 🙈

Beautiful filming, clever and interesting character development and a lot of detail that's in My Life in France book, Julia's autobiography. There's lot to unpick and a few (very few!) shortcomings to discuss but I can wait until more on here have watched them.

Frankly, I thought it was marvellous and I could watch the cast all day. Every single actor is sublime, and it's not just a one woman show.

Series two episodes don't appear to be for sale yet on iTunes/Apple. I bought the first series out right and I will do so again with this one so I can keep them.

I have also started watching old black and white Julia Child's programmes on YouTube and DD and I are making chicken and rice tonight from one of her early programmes. I am actually dead excited about it 😁 I have cross referenced the programme to the recipe book. I have reached a new level of geekiness.

We’ve watched 6 of the episodes. As referenced on the season 1 thread it is sublime. DHP is wonderful, so is Bebe Neuwerth (is that right?) It’s just glorious.

@xraydelta if you have now tv (I don’t) but I think you should be able to see S2 on it now? It is on Sky Atlantic. I’m loving your Julia tribute 🥰 Ps If you haven’t seen the Amy Adams film with Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia) I’d highly recommend, it is wonderful also - although Paul Child comes off rather worse in it, the Sky series seems to celebrate their marriage in a far lovelier way. It is such a lovely show to watch and as you say, the character development for all of the main cast make it just fabulous to watch.

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't know there was a second series. I have Now TV and watching it now.

That was my first sentence 😁 😆 I'm cancelling Now TV now though as there is literally nothing else of interest. And I do want to buy this second series as soon as I can through Apple. I just couldn't wait.

I have watched the film a fair few times, and that prompted my initial geekiness over cooking her recipes many years ago.

I have also since re read her book by audiobook, which was interesting as it highlighted different things to me with the pace of the audio,

And my young adult and teen enjoyed the Julia Child chicken and rice. I managed to use several times more utensils and crockery than is reasonable though 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thank you for this. Brilliant news! Series 2 is all available on Sky Atlantic.

Finished S2 yesterday. Although I feel there’s something just a bit too much about her portrayal it was all very entertaining. Particularly because the surrounding characters all had such compelling stories of their own - and are all so gorgeous to watch. Avis and Judith and Alice of course, but Blanche Knopf was just heartrending.

I am not enjoying the second season as much. Julia and Paul seem just a bit too...smug and a bit annoying with their cooing to each other.

I was becoming a little irritated with the matching pyjamas!

Maybe I am just jealous of them being at it like rabbits in their 60s?😀

It's not grabbing me this time.

One episode in and it’s disappointing. I think it’s the writing/script.

I loved the matching pyjamas!

There is an interesting sliver of a plot across the series, @Sedgwick, and the other women’s ‘journeys’ are all fascinating - so it’s worth persevering with, I’d say. It does pick up.

I'm loving this series as much as the first. I quite suspended belief that Paul had an identical (evil) twin. I thought that was very well done and loved Avis letting her hair down the morning after the night before. Phew 😍!

Sarah Lancashire is just delicious in this. I would have loved a meal cooked by Julia as well. That was so funny when she closed the fridge door so slowly. I had to re-watch it because j was laughing so much.

I've just watched episode 4 and putting off watching the remaining episodes so I can make it last.

I watched this a while back (we must have gotten it earlier than the UK) but I loved this tv series. I’m waiting for a bit more time to pass so I can watch it all over again.

Julia’s kitchen.

You can see her actual kitchen if you live in the US. But there’s a wealth of images of it in the internet.

@Umanresources Paul Child was a twin apparently! The couple did lead very interesting lives so I can quite believe that there was enough material not to have to make up much via poetic licence.

@LittleTeawithmilk Thank you for the link, loving all of this Julia-related stuff.

I also loved Judith meeting Madhur Jaffrey. As a child of the 70’s and 80’s, it was both her and Delia that taught me to cook watching tv on Sunday mornings (mainly because there wasn’t a lot on, plus my mother was a bloody awful cook so I had to learn somehow 😂)

I've got to episode 3 in s2, it's lovely.

@Netaporter I expressed myself badly about the twin angle. I meant to say that David Hyde Pierce acted both parts so well and the camera trickery was really good so that it was easy to believe there were actually twins there.

Oh does she meet Madhur Jaffrey? In that case I will persevere.

@TottersBlankly I will go back to it thank you! Honestly I adored series 1, I will certainly give series 2 another try.

@Umanresources ahh I get you. It was great wasn’t it?

@JanisMoplin itvis a very brief scene, but I think may be the introduction of exploration for s3 of Madhur. You probably had to be a bored child of that era to know who she was. I assumed she had been discovered in the UK, but then again, my horizons weren’t exactly broadened by my upbringing 😂

Ooh I know who Madhur Jaffrey is. It's strange how I've known of these 'exotic' cooks as my mother and grandmothers (bless 'em) were the plainest of English cooks. I dreaded roast beef on Sunday as it was always cremated and tough and was followed by home made rice pudding, my dad loved the skin 😝

I lived in Canada for a year and we had salad with every meal, with different herb dressings every day and two types of lettuce, back home it had been lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and salad cream. North American food was an eye opener with all the different cuisines available.