- Season 1 (11)
Brideshead Revisited
| Genres: | Drama - Period, Television - British, Series/Miniseries |
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11 Episodes
- 01 Brideshead Revisited - E01 - Et in Arcadia Ego
- 02 Brideshead Revisited - E02 - Home and Abroad
- 03 Brideshead Revisited - E03 - The Bleak Light of Day
- 04 Brideshead Revisited - E04 - Sebastian Against the World
- 05 Brideshead Revisited - E05 - A Blow Upon a Bruise
- 06 Brideshead Revisited - E06 - Julia
- 07 Brideshead Revisited - E07 - The Unseen Hook
- 08 Brideshead Revisited - E08 - Brideshead Deserted
- 09 Brideshead Revisited - E09 - Orphans of the Storm
- 10 Brideshead Revisited - E10 - A Twitch Upon a Thread
- 11 Brideshead Revisited - E11 - Brideshead Revisited
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Hooray, hoorah and huzzah
By chrispool (13 reviews) , 16 Nov 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
Remembered fondly from my youth; beautifully written, shot and acted. A glorious world of public school nonsense. Like a tipsy, wizardless Harry Potter - best enjoyed with a glass of excellent wine- Was this review helpful to you?
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(3)Hooray, hoorah and huzzah
By chrispool (13 reviews) , 16 Nov 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
Remembered fondly from my youth; beautifully written, shot and acted. A glorious world of public school nonsense. Like a tipsy, wizardless Harry Potter - best enjoyed with a glass of excellent wine- Was this review helpful to you?
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A faithful image
By Mountfalcon (77 reviews) from Ilford, England , 30 May 2011Much care has been taken to portray the novel - unpleasant characters, purple prose, insipid backgrounds, tedious dialogue...it re-captures perfectly the poverty of thought of the original, my least favourite Waugh novel. There are some strange choices of cast - Gielgud chose to play himself, as usual by this stage of his career, (Olivier does the same in later episodes), and Stephen Moore, whom I much admire, chooses to do a Jim Broadbent impersonation - perhaps he was hoping that he wouldn't be recognised. The whole is rounded off by limpid camerawork. It's a 'worthy' production - with all the baggage that phrase attracts. Oh yes...the music is appropriate (a politer term than banal).- Was this review helpful to you?
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a cathedral of a story
By ovid (34 reviews) from Reading , 04 Jul 2010Evelyn Waugh's novel is a cathedral of a story and the BBC production emulates that towering manifestation. Depending on the viewers perception the story can be interpreted in the following viewpoints 1.a story of a family 2 a story of the past pre ww2 days 3 1 story seen from the view of each character( in the style of Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests and Mary Wesleys Camomile Lawn) 4 a critique of Catholicism 5 a celebration of Catholicism 6 the eternal question of human understanding of the divine Depending on the viewpoint the emotional understanding will become deeper .
The first episode is an introduction to Sebastian and development of the close relationship with Charles Ryder.Notice how Sebastian keeps his family away from Charles apart from Nanny Hawkins, who is a faithful family retainer. The script is virtually verbatim with Waugh's novel judicious edited by John Mortimer- Was this review helpful to you?
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