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Other Trollopes on TV

posted 9 years ago by HarryHart
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I just hope that all the people who enjoyed the Pallisers on this board didn't suffer as badly as me from the dreadful tedium that afflicted me as I recently watched Trollope's "Doctor Thorne" on TV.

Anyway, I now have "The Way We Live Now" on DVD, which I vaguely remember watching in the past, but am looking forward to as a real treat.

On a completely different note, I have just finished watching "The Night Manager" on BBC TV Sunday nights, which is full of sumptuous location shots in Egypt, Spain,etc. I must admit that I rather preferred the "more economic" approach shown in The Pallisers when hotelling in The Alps. From the hotel room, it sort of went "Lovely view..", "Yes, isn't it?" without any external shots. Which was great for me as I can easily envisage mountains, with, or without, snow on top, and it must have saved the BBC a fortune. (Oh dear, perhaps they get a cut now on all the holiday destinations they show? Terrible thought.)

[–] Julie-30 9 years ago

In my not-so-humble opinion, The Way We Live Now was an abomination. I watched it once and gave the discs away the next day.

The book is brilliant. The series was (again, IMNSHO) awful.c

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[–] whoanelly (1592) 4 years ago

I’ve watched all the ones that have come out since the 1970s. I really love The Pallisers, The Barchester Chronicles, and Doctor Thorne. He Knew He Was Right is good, but not as good as the others. The Way We Live Now has a few good parts, but mostly it’s either boring or annoying.