LORD OF THE FLIES - sun bbc1 9pm - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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A group of school boys are marooned on a desert island in an adaptation or William Golding‘s classic novel Lord of the flies

A plane transporting, schoolboy crushed lands on a remote island with no adults around supervise them their attempts to remain civilise soon descends into violence.

This four part series is a first television dictation of the classic 1954 novel each episode is shown from one of the main characters with the first one devoted to piggy.

Piggy is a responsible one who wants to keep everything calm. A lot of the boys go so when they’re stranded piggy tells everyone they have to have rules but the boys don’t act well to that.

Piggy initially be friends Ralph a boy who voted leader but Ralph‘s rival Jack taught piggy about his weight and poor eyesight

Jack judges PIGGY starts picking on him. He tries to be friends with Ralph when he knows that Ralph is PIGGY‘s only thread to hold onto they really don’t like each other.

not sure if I will watch as never like the book at school but doing thread incase I do and for others who may enjoy

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Watch e1 and join us next Sunday for e2

I read that article too.

Personally, I liked that pacing with moments of action interspersed with the shots of birds or insects, children looking at the camera, little 'uns playing. I thought it was very atmospheric.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2026/02/08/lord-of-the-flies-on-bbc-one-review-far-too-pretty-to-reflect-the-ugly-side-of-humanity/

Just watched the first episode on catch up and thought it was really well done.
I loved the Britten and Vaughan Williams music, none of which is credited at the end. Only Hans Zimmer, but hardly any of the music is originally written by him for it....things like this really annoy me!
I will be watching next sun.

Thank you for posting the link to the Irish Times review @cariadlet 💐

Finally

recap e 1

https://reelmockery.com/lord-of-the-flies-series-1-episode-1-recap/amp/

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I will put this here and leave you .
I watched all four and I am gob smacked .
It is my favourite book and I have longed for a remake to do this book credit and they have succeeded .
Stay with it you will not regret it .
It will take a while for me to re visit this series but I certainly will do.
No Spoilers .
Adieu

Ooh can’t wait to watch this. Read this as one of my English Lit O level books in 1982, along with 1984, Catch 22, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner and the War poets

I’m def in for it

i really enjoyed e1 an didn’t think I would as didn’t like the book

But I was 14/15 and now 52

Thanks @70isaLimitNotaTarget I really enjoyed the first episode. It's good to hear that you loved the whole series. I'm going to try and just watch at TV pace rather than binge on it.

I vaguely remembered it from school and loved the first episode. Watched w adult DD who read most of LOTF as a teen.

Jack actor is 14

We had to sign a permission form for our DS to read/study it at school. He would have been younger than 13 at the time. Apparently his class was deemed to be 'emotionally and academically mature' for their age. Didn't seem to do him any harm.

I know a family involved in the filming and they had a blast out in Malaysia! They were out there for 6 months and their son loved the whole filming experience. The parents were very happy with the way the boys were treated/looked after.

Just finished this and thought it was excellent! Loved the scenery and the way it was filmed. I never did read the book - might do now. The acting of the youngsters was extremely good.

6mths. Wow. That must have been an experience

I’ve watched the first two episodes. First read the book when I was 12 and then was lucky enough to study it for GCSE (didn’t we all?!) with a superb English teacher, although I haven’t read it since.

I’m really enjoying the adaptation and think the acting is excellent.

I didn't study it for gcse

This is a lovely article about the boys' experience of filming Lord of the Flies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d65xqrgeyo

Thanks so much for that, what a fantastic experience for them! Glad to see from those pictures that it looks as if many parents and siblings were there too.

E2 tonight

Piggy's accent is lovely .

I look forward to this

This is going to win so many BAFTAS. And so it should. Absolutely wonderful

Thread is quiet tonight esp after last weeks explosive first episode