Several years ago, I was lucky to have been one of the people who started viewing a new (very British!) Masterpiece Theatre presentation called Bramwell. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the foresight to tape any of the episodes, so my husband and children missed it… until it finally became available to either rent or purchase. (Produced by Whitby Davison Productions Ltd.)
It is not a mystery, but in my opinion, it has cozy “written” all over it. But, be forewarned… since it is a Victorian medical series, there is a fair amount of blood in it.
Bramwell is based on the fictional life of Doctor Eleanor Bramwell, portrayed by Jemma Redgrave (of the famous British Redgrave family) and she is absolutely wonderful in this role. She is able to convey the innate feisty-ness that it would have taken in the late 1800s for a woman to become a doctor. But at the same time, she is able to capture the very feminine reserve it also must have taken for an intelligent, capable woman to have been able to to “make it” in a man’s world back then.
The first season of Bramwell is comprised of three discs. It sets up the series by showing us Dr. (Eleanor) Bramwell’s succession from working under a leading surgeon to finding a sponsor for a clinic she opens in the slums of London. Dr. Bramwell is stubborn, as well as smart, and has the youthful quality of sometimes jumping before evaluating the jump…
The wonderful actor David Calder portrays the senior Doctor Bramwell. Calder’s performance shows us how Eleanor’s doting father could have raised her to believe (or should I say “know”) that she could indeed become a good doctor… despite London’s (or should I say “the world’s”) disapproving attitude. Remember- the late 1800s was a time when society women stitched floral patterns on their needlepoint canvases. It was not a time when these same “dainty” women stitched up gaping, open wounds!
Season two of the Bramwell series follows Dr. Eleanor Bramwell’s experiences at “The Thrift.” The Thrift is the name of the clinic she opens in London’s “bad side” of town.
The sets/scenery seem flawless to me… as do the costumes. The entire cast is excellent. One of the characters I absolutely love in this series is Nurse Ethel Carr, played by Ruth Sheen. Sheen is great in everything I have seen her in, but her portrayal of Nurse Carr is so good that I found myself (almost gleefully) awaiting her next scene.
Season three has just been released (January 8, 2008.) When I wrote the review of this series it had yet to be released.
Bramwell’s fourth season is it’s final season, and has been available to either rent or purchase for the longest amount of time. I don’t know why they started with the last and worked their way to the front but, that is apparently what they did. (That is a mystery to me!)
If you are planning on watching the series, be sure to start at the beginning and follow the correct chronological order. Since I am waiting until I am able to watch season three, I have not watched season four yet. I watched it when it was on Masterpiece Theatre years ago… which, at this point, is almost like saying I haven’t ever seen it!
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Stephanie says
Wow, I love Bramwell! I didn’t realize season 2 was out already on DVD – thanks so much for including the amazon link! I also think it’s a wonderful period piece, with very loveable characters. If you like good characters, it’s a series for you. Since that’s where a lot of cozy mysteries really shine, I think this series will be perfectly appropriate for many users of your site. Thanks for all the great tips!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thank you, Stephanie…
You are right about the "good characters," which are really important to all of us who love good cozies. I think that it will be an appropriate series to watch, also… but I went ahead and added in the "a little bloody" just to be sure that people of the site are aware…
Niobe says
Stephanie, Bramwell sounds fabulous, but it appears that season 3 isn’t available from either Netflix or Bockbuster, so I’m not sure I want to begin the series if I can’t view all of the episodes. Do you know anything about this missing season? Your website is very helpful and I’m finding lots of books and films that I want to read/view. Thanks for going to all of this trouble. Niobe Charlotte, NC
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Niobe, I just checked, and you are right about Netflix and Blockbuster not carrying the third season of Bramwell. I also just checked, and Amazon says that it is releasing Bramwell: the third season DVDs on January 8, so the other two places shouldn’t be far behind.
Rebecca says
I love the Bramwell series but I missed a lot of the later episodes because I was starring in a Victorian drama at our local am dram society and it coincided with the rehearsals. The only bit I saw up to was when Eleanor proposed to Dr. Marsham, then I saw no more so I don’t know what his answer was. I hope it was yes, for her sake, he was sweet. Now I’m going to collect the entire collection so I can watch it at my leisure. Hurray!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Rebecca,
I think that Bramwell is one of the best Masterpiece Theatre shows that I have seen. I absolutely love Eleanor’s character, and enjoyed how they were able to flesh-out all of the secondary characters.
However, I do think that they could have finished the series after season three.
Ky says
I just finished watching the final season of Bramwell, and it was far from cozy. It was so completely different from the rest of the series and was such an awfully depressing and disturbing way to end it. Just awful.
Dsw says
I, too, was disappointed with the Season 4, ending after only two episodes and with little closure about so many things. Sad.
Ann says
Why is it that a thought provoking series is cut off
So many takes on this historic setting and imaginative treatment could have taken
Disappointed
Wish it could have been revived
Flashpoint says
I agree with you, season four was actually difficult to watch and several times I thought to turn away and yet hope kept me watching. An unfounded hope it turned out. They characters were all degraded in some way and Eleanor was as good as hysterical, insensitive to her co-workers and obsessive in her preoccupations. Her tryst with the soldier was most disappointing and there is not doubt in my mind that a relationship such as she pursued with him would be unlikely to last, both leaving careers of meaning and value for each other is not likely to flourish for either of them. Sad and pathetic ending really. It seemed written more for affect than any sort of value.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
***DON’T READ THIS IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON WATCHING THE BRAMWELL SERIES… ESPECIALLY SEASON FOUR***
Ky,
When I wrote the above entry, I had not watched seasons three or four yet. When we finally watched season four, I remember that ALL of us were very surprised by the totally different direction the producers went. I also remember wondering why all of the characters didn’t come back.
I (personally) was sorry that they hadn’t simply stopped the Bramwell show after season three… even leaving loose ends dangling…
PA960 says
Don’t waste your time with Season 4. Seasons 1-3 were amazing, but Season 4 was handled by a completely different production company, and it shows. The real Bramwell ended with the last episode of Season 3.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
PA960, I agree with you about season 4 of the Bramwell series. I was very disappointed that they continued to film without A LOT of the major characters, or the same “feeling” of the first three seasons.
judie says
This is the best Victorian medical tv series I have ever watched. It beats “House” (American tv series) by a mile. I would recommend this British series to anyone who enjoys watching medical entertainment with such intensive drama…. I do so greatly enjoy BBC TV and British current day films. I only regret that the American media resources cannot produce the outstanding dramas and entertainment that Britian does.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
I totally agree with you, Judie… although I didn’t care for the fourth season…
Janet Ives says
I agree with you. I am an American, and tend to watch mostly British shows. But I did like the romanticism of the last 2 episodes. I just can not help myself.
kristyn says
Couldn’t agree more: loved 1-3 and hated 4. I am so disappointed, which I know is silly but I am. I don’t understand how they could cut the father out of the show, given how central the father-daughter relationship was. Does anyone know why he left or perhaps was dismissed? Thanks for letting me vent.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
I know, Kristyn, I also missed the family’s maid.
Briana says
So glad to see that I am not alone! Season 4 was shameful to seasons 1-3. Dignity and simplicity roamed in these seasons. Annoying background music and seedy, confusing story lines roamed in season 4 of Bramwell.
So disappointed!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Briana, I was really sorry that they had season four of the Bramwell series – without keeping the original people who had made the first three seasons so great…
Laurene says
How old is Eleanor Bramwell in 1895 or 1899? Trying to piece this together from the episodes.
Thanks
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Laurene, I don’t know how old she was supposed to be, but I would have guessed she was in her late 20s. I mean, she had already gone to medical school. Definitely well past the age when women were expected to be married and catering to their husbands.
Flashpoint says
At one point in the program her father says something to the effect that he has been caring for her for 29 years, so…approaching 30.
Cracklin' Rose says
Our family thoroughly enjoyed Series 1-3 and were disgusted with 4! Where did Kate go? Where did Father and new bride (?) go? To the “Q” where they hinted they would move to? Why didn’t her father prevent her from going with the despicable army man? The Eleanor Bramwell presented in series 4 seemed like a 21st century free-spirited woman rather than a turn-of the century lady. We agree with the earlier commentors; don’t watch the fourth series.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Cracklin’ Rose, they really should have stopped the Bramwell television series after season 3. Loose ends would have been better than the fourth season!
Margret says
Thank you all for your insight, especially about season 4! I’m just at the beginning of season 3 watching on netflix. I first found out that season 4 was ‘irregular’ in that it only had two, very long episodes for the whole season! Then, I read the synopses on imdb and couldn’t believe that the show had gone that direction. What a bitterly crushing way to end Dr. Bramwells (the younger) character. Well, I feel forewarned. I will quit with the end of season 3 and not bother with whatever followed. I’m disappointed, though. I really like this series and, although it ended long ago, I wish it ended better. I think season 4 would just leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Margret, I would definitely stop watching the Bramwell series after the last episode in season three.
Courtney Corda says
I know most of these posts are 10 years old, but I am putting in my two cents about Season 4, which I think IS worth watching contrary to most folks on this discussion forum. I agree that it is a shame that Eleanor’s father isn’t a character and that the background music is often very annoying. I also agree that the overall tone is much darker and much less hopeful than the other seasons. But I think that the season is a powerful and meaningful conclusion to the series as a whole and for the character of Eleanor herself. Season 4 asks us to reflect not only on the dark side of Victorian society, but also about the limits of female progress at the time and about the limits of what any one individual can achieve in fixing social problems. I also think the romance between Guy and Eleanor is exciting, unpredictable, and believable and that the actors have excellent chemistry together. I was glad I watched it and I liked the ending. And as for those who say she gave up her career, I disagree. We have no idea what will happen after she has the baby. Also, to the person who said that Quarrie gave up his career not because he loved her, but because she got pregnant, I disagree. The pregnancy was simply the catalyst to him coming to the conclusion that his career was empty and not at all as fulfilling as he was fooling himself into believing. He realized that the moment Eleanor asked if when he looked in the mirror, someone was looking back.
beedee says
Thanks for your comment! I just watched the first episode of season four I was debating if I should continue. I appreciate that they are highlighting those social aspects of Victorian England.
Mustachio says
I agree with u all, season 4 is horrible. I just watched the first 1hr and 40min episode last night and it kinda ruined it for me. I don’t think I’m even gonna watch the last one, they turned her in to a **** ***, the title of the episode “loose women” fits it. This seems to happen to a lot of series, the whole change of production killed it.
I’ve been watching Downtown Abbey and I’m about to start season 2, I hope they don’t Bramwell it!
Susan S says
Glad to know I’m not alone in my feelings for the way season 4 went with this series. She was awful to Dr. Marshon. I felt badly for him. While I wanted her to end up happy, this wasn’t the way to go. Very disappointing end to a wonderful series
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Susan S, this is a case of not knowing when the party is over. What a shame they “wrapped the series up” like this. (If I knew how to type a sad face, I would!)
Robin says
I totally agree with the comments about Season 4, which I finished a couple of days ago. It’s still worth watching, but be prepared: it’s as if the cast were playing different characters, except for Dr. Marsham. Eleanor is her usual pigheaded self, but you’d think she would know better than to risk getting pregnant after the lucky break she’d had with O’Neill.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Robin, it is almost like watching an entirely new show >>> one which I doubt I would have continued to watch had this been the beginning.
Dr.Bramwell says
Agree with all of you who say seasons 1-3 were excellent and season 4 was garbage. I have been trying to find any explanations of what happened with season 4. Why only 2 episodes? And was it a completely different production staff? I can’t get over how cheated I feel after the promise of season 3’s ending and then the disaster of season 4. Any Brits out there who remember any scuttlebutt about the ending of the series? I need closure!!!!! LOL.
David says
I don’t think it was a completely different production. The writer of the last two episodes was Lucy Gannon, the series creator and writer of most of the episodes in series 1 to 3. The production company was also the same.
I gather that series 3 was writen with expectations that a fourth series would be commissioned but this fell through due to disappointing ratings. Apparently there were no plans for any further episodes but UK Independent TV later relented and agreed to commision 2 feature length episodes to tie up loose ends. That’s why the original sets and some of the regular actors were no longer available.
Like many others I was horrified by the direction series 4 went in. I can only pressume that faced with the problem of tying everything up in 2 episodes, Gannon elected to go for psychological rather than character drama. If so, she failed miserably.
I really wish series 4 had never been made. It’s 14 years now since I first saw it but it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Michael says
I am in agreement. I watched Seasons 1-3 and loved them, but Season 4 was a huge letdown. I watched the first episode, and stopped right there. I really wish I had not seen it at all. It is ugly and crude.
Lily says
I only just discovered Bramwell a few months ago! LOVED Season 1-3, and have similar complaints about Season 4 as others have voiced. However, I HAD to watch it!
Don’t read any farther if you haven’t finished the series:
The finale tidied everything up. Eleanor got her true love, who was very sensitive and supportive, and appeared to truly love and adore her. Obviously, Dr. Marshon was going to be hooking up with Mrs. Bruce (Eleanor’s cousin who was running the Thrift), and he also gets to be the head doc and make all the decisions himself. He and Mrs. Bruce will be a better match than Joe and Eleanor.
One thing though. Initially I felt pleased at the ending, where Eleanor and Guy are standing in the doorway to the church (where they are to be married). They look at each other, then inside the church. Guy looks back at her, but I realized that we don’t actually know if they went inside and got married! It is ambiguous. Guy could have flinched at the door, and realized he had made a huge mistake, giving up his promising career in the Army, to impulsively marry this woman doctor.
Anyone have thoughts about this?
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Lily, it has been a few years since I watched Season 4 of the Bramwell television series. I just remember being very disappointed in it. If I had known how bad it was before I watched it, I still would felt the same as you. I am sure I would have had to watch it, hoping for some type of closure. I don’t think I felt like it tidied everything up, though.
Lily says
Thanks for responding, Danna. I wish they would produce a follow-up Bramwell now, years later, with Eleanor and her kids, and happily married, or happily not married, and continuing her medical career.
David says
I suppose the last two episodes DID tie up loose ends. It’s just that I, and apparently many others, didn’t like how the loose ends were tied.
It tied up the issue of her relationship with Joe Marsham by having her betray him with another man.
It tied up the question of how Eleanor would manage without her father by having her go off the rails and behave like a complete idiot.
It tied up the issue of the future of her career by having her fail miserably and get kicked out of the hospital she had founded.
Rather than have loose ends tied up like that, I would have preferred they had been left dangling!
Much as I hated the last 2 episodes, I would still be interested to see a follow up, set maybe twenty years later, but without Eleanor’s husband. Perhaps she might of had a daughter who also wanted to be a doctor, and Eleanor could take the role her father did in the original series
Danna - cozy mystery list says
David, your summary of the last season is right on target. I wonder if anyone felt like the last season was consistent with the rest of the season…
Lily says
David, those are astute observations about the last Bramwell episodes. Interesting to see from a man’s viewpoint. Yes, she did betray Dr. Marsham, but in the end he will probably fare better with Mrs. Bruce (the one who took over running the clinic) who it seemed may favor him with some actual passion, whereas Eleanor would not have.
Yes, too bad Eleanor’s morals were so risque’. She was such a creature of her passions of the moment.
I am still flummoxed by the last scene, with Eleanor and Guy standing at the threshhold of the church, supposedly about to get married. Guy looked at her, and then very soberly into the church. Did he carry through with the marriage? Maybe he realized the enormity of what he was embarking on, and how he had rather haphazardly abandoned his promising Army career.
David says
I don’t think there’s much doubt that Lucy Gannon intended us to understand they had gone through with the wedding. After all if they did not Eleanor would have become an unmarried mother and her reputation permanently ruined.
I also don’t think there was anything problematic about Eleanor’s morals until those final 2 episodes. If she had broken off the engagement with Joe first before sleeping with Quarrie I would not have an issue with it. But having sex with him while still engaged is an issue and quite out of character.
Lily says
Thank you. I choose to believe your point about Lucy Gannon’s intentions. It makes sense. Now I can be at peace on that issue, and leave the Bramwell series at rest.
David says
Well I wish I could let it rest. But every so often I remember how the series ended and get angry all over again. It must surely be the worst ending of any tv series ever.
It’s not just the issue of Eleanor throwing Joe over for Quarrie, although goodness knows that was bad enough. It’s her entire behaviour during those final episodes, which exemplifies the reasons the patriarchal society of the time believed women needed to be guided by husbands or fathers and could not be allowed independence, let alone professional careers. Were it not for the fact they were written by a woman, I would have little hesitation in concluding the scriptwriter of those last 2 episodes was an unabashed misogynist.
Lily says
Yes, Season 4 will always be a disappointment. But where Lucy Gannon let us down, we could write an alternate ending, like in the French Lieutenant’s Woman.
It was unfortunate that she was getting what she wanted (a baby, and a husband) by having promiscuous sex with someone she really didn’t know well enough to be in love with, and then having him choose to give up his career for her because she was pregnant, instead of because he simply couldn’t imagine life without her.
The part about Eleanor dumping Dr. Marshon feels right though. He was such a sincere man, he deserved to have a woman who was passionate about him. The marriage would have been rather dull, like best friends being married. She was just “settling” for him, and was seduced in part I am sure by the fact that he was head over heels in love with her.
Anyone game to write a new ending?
J. A. says
Totally agree!!!!! That last season was a co.plete shit ahow. I hate lady Bramwell, she ended up being the most horrid woman of all time. Harumph!
Joe Kenny says
Just finished watching Season 4 and was so disappointed after the first three excellent seasons that I searched the internet to see if others agreed . . . and now delighted to read the opinions expressed above. Season 4 appeared to me like a different production with characters playing out of character.
I agree that it should have ended at Season 3.
Verl says
Loved Bramwell until the fourth season began, at which point I experienced one disappointment after another!
If only I knew who produced seasons 1-3, I would gladly seek out more of their work to watch, whereas I would purposely avoid that of the producers of season 4. They destroyed characters of great depth! No wonder they stopped after only one season! Shame!
David says
Judging from the abrupt change in style and characterisation, I suppose many would think different people produced Season 4. But that’s not true. All four seasons were produced by Whitby/Davidson Productions and Lucy Gannon, the writer of both episodes in Season 4 was the series creator and main writer for the other 3 seasons. Which makes the abomination that was Season 4 even harder to understand.
However I do know that Season 3 was not intended to the the last full season. A normal Season 4 was planned but not commissioned due to comparatively poor ratings for Season 3. Instead, the production team was offered 2 feature length episodes to tie up loose ends. I can’t help wondering sometimes if Gannon, denied the full season she needed to tie things up properly, deliberately wrote such dreadful scripts in revenge. I suppose that is far fetched, but the changes in the series were totally far fetched too. If anyone had suggested, before those 2 episodes were screened, that Bramwell would end with Eleanor being dismissed from the Thrift and totally estranged from Joe Marsham, I would have considered the idea ludicrous
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thanks for the Bramwell information, David. I totally agree with your last sentence. “Ludicrous” is the perfect word that comes to mind at that suggestion. I’m sorry someone in that season’s preliminary meetings didn’t stand up and ask if no one else could see the white elephant in the script readings’ room!
David says
I would actually have preferred it if they had killed Eleanor off. If she had sacrificed her life to save someone that would have been very upsetting, but I would have respected it as in character. Instead she behaves completely out of character and throws away her life’s work for nothing. Even worse they have the gall to pretend this is supposed to be a happy ending.
Lily says
Actually, we don’t know for sure that she threw away her life’s work. The Thrift could have just been the first stage of her empowerment. She brought that institution into being, and with her powerful new husband by her side, she may have gone on to create another medical venue, like for single pregnant women!
David says
Possibly, but she could equally have done what her father wanted in the beginning and contented herself with private practice, treating society ladies’ neuroses with laudanum and sympathy. Or even given up medicine altogether. We don’t know. As of the last episode all we know is that her career at that point had ended in failure.
I was interested in your earlier post when you talked about writing an alternative ending. I have never actually seen any Bramwell fanfiction but it would be interesting if someone wrote a series of stories for a proper Season 4. I don’t think my writing skills would be up to that task but it would be nice if someone took up the challenge.
Lily says
Yes, David, it would be nice if someone took up that challenge and created a more satisfying ending to a beautiful story. Then many of us could heave a sigh of relief, and put this story to rest!
paulb says
First, thank you for this thread being available.
Not a word of praise for Our Brave Boys and Loose Women in season 4? I thought they were outstanding, an exhilarating change for a show from which I was not expecting any surprises, and a conclusion for Eleanor that edged precariously, appallingly, near tragedy. David Calder’s presence would have been welcome, but if it was not possible, so be it. Eleanor would no longer have been living with him. And the series long lacked any reference to contemporary events; I welcomed the Boer War.
I was nearly biting my finger nails watching Eleanor struggle to hold herself together while she was emotionally falling apart. It seemed plausible: the bills came due, her loneliness was almost palpable.
If it was a harsh financial reality of tv production that required Lucy Gannon to re-imagine the way she told Eleanor’s story, then I am permanently in favor of throwing series writers a curveball once in awhile. She slammed it. For me, it was a walk-off, bottom of the ninth, two strikes, two out home run.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
There you go, Paulb, some of us didn’t care for the way the story unfolded, but there were also those who did enjoy it ending this way. Thanks for “the other side.”
Mario says
I actually got into the show one day at home while visiting mom and decided to continue it on netflix and I will forever be scared by the scene where Eleanor is shacking up with the major! Major disappointment to an otherwise great show. However I do find it funny that mom loves victorian piece shows and movies and when the men cheat they are horrible disgusting pigs but she defends Eleanor “the poor thing has been through so much”!!! Interesting tid-bit
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Mario, it sounds like you are in the majority here who think the last season of Bramwell was a little odd. That is interesting, though, about how your mom’s opinion is sort of swayed by the fact that we are all rooting for Eleanor to be happy.
Micarr says
I too was thrilled from watching the first episode of Bramwell. It had wrenching emotion, deeply thought out characters and compelling stories.
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It was beginning to unravel I’d say when Eleanor lost it at the Masquerade Ball. Now, granted, Finn broke her heart and later drove the knife in when he hit on her while his wife was dying. It was horrible. But, what always gave her her strength was saving peoples lives. It always got her through. What I didn’t understand was how Eleanor could continue to lose her mind and logic. It went too far. Now that I think of it, her strong mindedness played a big part in her downfall. Remember episode 2 “the largest Brain”, that impacted me greatly. But, I digress.
Season 4 from the music on down was melancholy, unfinished and grainy in production. Good story but hurried. I agree with David that it may have had a shortage of funding for production value.
The other BBC series I have watched were…
Denise says
I discovered Bramwell on “Britbox”, a streaming channel from a joint venture of BBC and ITV. I get Britbox on Roku.
Bramwell is great, agree with all of the comments; just started watching and am now warned about Season 4! Thanks.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Denise, thanks for the suggestion of Britbox – currently we get most of our British tv through Acorn, a similar British-focused streaming service. When we’ve more or less mined that out, we’ll probably give Britbox a try.
Lisa says
I’m flummoxed. Is season 4 really only two episodes? All the other seasons had, I believe, 8 episodes or thereabouts. I’m afraid Amazon has made a mistake. I’ve only watched ep. 1 of season 4 and it was just awful.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Lisa, I think it was only two episodes, and looking at reviews (it has been too many years to remember “episode by episode” at this point) it looks like you’re not alone in thinking the 4th season had some quality issues.
David says
Having watched the first 3 seasons again, I actually think the rot started to set in a little in season 3. Although still excellently written and produced, there was much more emphasis on the personal lives of the protagonists and less on medical and social issues than in the first 2 seasons. This certainly appears to have affected the ratings. The first 2 seasons averaged 10 million viewers in the UK, the 3rd only about 7 million. It’s for that reason the production team were offered 2 feature length specials to conclude the story instead of a normal season, and we all know how that ended up.
Dee says
The year is now 2021 a long cry from when this series was first made. I
recently came across this wonderful, well acted drama series now showing FREE on Tubi. As i am very into period piece British flicks, this piqued my interest. For the past week spouse and I have been glued to this series every night at seven, watching two episodes per night. We are now on Series 3/Epi 4. Wow! This series is riveting! We cannot wait until the following nights to continue with this show.
Am concerned with all negative comments, Series 4. Doesn’t sound good at all. Boo on that. Yes. From what I am reading here on comment page, it won’t be worth our while to go forth after Series 3 ends. Bummer.
Of course we want to know who Elenor marries — positively.
First I ever heard of Jemma Redgrave. What an actress. Wonderful. And the niece of Vanessa Redgrave. The Redgrave family never disappoints.
Thanks for all the tips everyone has commented on. Helps a lot.