Episode #1.1
In 1908 civil servant Christopher Tietjens marries the pregnant Sylvia Satterthwaite though the father is probably her married lover Gerald Drake,as Christopher's brother Mark points out. Four years on Sylvia is an unloving mother...
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"With the requisite pay-cable (HBO) sex tease of the opening reel, this lavishly-mounted (pun intended) adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's century-ago novels seemed lovely but empty, as stick-figure, antiquated types from the WW I era parade across the screen. Benedict Cumberbatch, sporting a different hairstyle than now, is perfectly cast as a brillianty nerdy right-winger, so stiff that it came as a great pleasure when he falls for the boyish (Carey Mulligan-type) young suffragette played flatly by Adelaide Clemmons (who I have only seen in "The Great Gatsby" with Mulligan). Until..."
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In 1908 civil servant Christopher Tietjens marries the pregnant Sylvia Satterthwaite though the father is probably her married lover Gerald Drake,as Christopher's brother Mark points out. Four years on Sylvia is an unloving mother...