To Walk Invisible

[goodgoalie]

Brava, Sally Wainwright! Beautifully written and directed, by far the best thing on TV for ages.

[Mamyalynne]

Wasn't it good?

A real treat.

[ubasses]

Brilliant.

[pastafreak]

Arggh......I was going to watch that...and completely forgot. Doh!
But thanks for the reminder.

[jno]

excellent. I could probably have coped without the dream sequence and the modern ending (too much like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the ending) but the rest was brilliant.

[Mamyalynne]

The broad down to earth accents were spot on.

[anneasquith]

Fabulous scenery, costumes and countryside. .loved it

[goodgoalie]

Bravo, too, to the builders of the set - the parsonage and surroundings were all constructed from scratch, must have cost a fortune!. Also thought the actor playing Branwell was particularly good.

[tonyav]

Mrs av has recorded it, so it's much worth watching then.

[anneasquith]

Yes tony, but not too sure its up a lorry driver called Dave's street.

[tonyav]

Thanks anne.
( glad I ain't a lorry driver called Dave then ).

[maggiebee]

Thoroughly enjoyed it.

[hereIam]

It was GREAT !

[ladybirder]

Anything by the incomparable Sally Wainwright will do for me. Fabulaaase.

[naomi24]

I've recorded it - and after reading this thread I'm really looking forward to watching it.

[jno]

you might like to switch subtitles on, naomi; I always do so anyway, but there's been a lot of internet grumbling that the cast don't speak up enough or that the music drowns them out (I thought the music was okay but sound levels for speech often seemed very low)

[naomi24]

Thanks jno. Actors do seem to mumble so and I often have problems understanding northern dialogue in television programmes anyway - and I presume this is northern dialogue.

[Peter Pedant]

as Julie walters ( mrs Overall ) says in Educating Rita ( two versions available London English and Scouse ) " that Branwell Bronte - he was reelly mental...."

Infernal World of Branwell Bronte by Daphne du Maurier isnt a bad read

wrote about a million words apparently - most part unpublished- Branwell I mean
Lord Lowboroughs death in Tenant of Wildfell Hall is meant to be an account of how Branwell died ( rotted from the legs up - probable IVC or femoral thrombosis following a binge )

[tonyav]

I believe that Branwell liked Laudanum just has much as alcohol.

[Peter Pedant]

Branwell had a tab at every pub within ten miles

It was a drama - I wonder if the sisters talked so much between themselves or just exchanged looks when Branwell misbehaved

some of the dialog was good
but then we had "publication of a novel as viable"
and of the visiting Robinson girls - "yak yak yak"

Anne wasnt tuberculous enough - i suppose actors and arteests cant starve for their art
( didnt the maker of a day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch make them film before he fed them ? )

one account has Branwell saying to his friend Joe Brown that he knew all about his sisters' fame but wouldnt it be a fabulous joke if they both pretended that both knew nothing of the proposed visit to London

as a confirmed drinker he must have wondered where the money for the London trip had come from

Beeb drama at its greatest

[Ann]

Strangely as a lover of all costume dramas especially Downtown, Poldark and others - I was really disaappointed. I stuck it for 45 mins then switched it off. It was so boring, I found the dialogue hard to hear and it was yet another drama filmed in half darkness. There didn't seem much action up to the point where I switched it off and the characters - the Brontes were really aggressive.
It was a Null points from me! :(