#WhomYouKnow #SmallScreenScenes Curses on you, Ross Poldark! Poldark, Season 3 Recommended by Whom You Know: Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson are back in an all-new season of Poldark on MASTERPIECE Sundays, October 1 – November 19, 2017 on @PBS
Previously on Whom You Know, we've announced Poldark:
And the highly talented Mover and Shaker Chris Gallarus has been in it:
Clearly, Poldark has staying power and we love his spirit.
This is Poldark's first review; we saw Seasons One and Two but did not comment on it.
Season Three is better. We've seen all episodes of all three seasons.
For someone that's not American, Ross Poldark is quite the Revolutionary and certainly appreciates the American dream that he continues to live out in Cornwall, an absolutely gorgeous setting in England. We like his entrepreneurial spirit but are not thrilled he fought against the Americans in the Revolutionary War. Water under the bridge now...
If you go back far enough, you know where the American dream is derived from.
Just listen to the language you're speaking, English, the only language of America and the international language of business. For new readers, you should know that Whom You Know is named after Peachy's 10th grade English class and no one is better with words than Mover and Shaker Rennie McQuilkin, now official poet of the State of Connecticut. We love English.
A lot of the best programming in the world is coming out of the UK and America, you don't have to wait for Poldark a minute past October 1st. If you just said, wait, Peachy, don't you like Dancing with the Stars?! - yes, but do you know that is by the BBC we believe.
In Poldark, visuals of the landscape are enough to drop what you're doing in Manhattan and take a virtual vacation, because everyone knows that although there are many great aspects of this city, a lovely seascape with a beach is sadly not one of them. The cinematography and the scenery are most stunning this season. To unwind, just look at these landscapes.
The script is solid and the casting is good. All three seasons have a slow start, but season three is the quickest of the three.
In terms of acting, we are most impressed by Heida Reid who is Elizabeth, and the best actor in this series, (we do not know her) and Caroline Blakiston who is Aunt Agatha and Poldark's resident Dowager Countess, so to speak. Maggie Smith, we miss you. Christian Brassington is on purpose the ultimate in revolting as the Rev. Whitworth, and he achieves success in making our skin crawl. Morwenna, played by Ellise Chappell, is up-and-coming and fabulous. We hope to see her in many future seasons.
Poldark Season Three is Recommended by Whom You Know!
On a separate note, stay tuned for a highly fashionable series that we found extremely impressive coming up on PBS!
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Does George Warleggan finally have the upper hand against his archenemy, Ross Poldark? Can George’s growing power in Cornwall cement his control over the fate of his populist foe? Dream on! MASTERPIECE presents the latest thrilling exploits of Ross Poldark and his fiery partner, Demelza, starring Aidan Turner (The Hobbit) and Eleanor Tomlinson (Death Comes to Pemberley) as the intrepid eighteenth-century duo, on Poldark, Season 3, airing in eight action-packed episodes, Sundays, October 1 – November 19, 2017 at 9pm ET on PBS.
The new season costars Jack Farthing as the dastardly George and Heida Reed as his bewitching wife, Elizabeth, now estranged from her first love, Ross—or is she? Also returning are Caroline Blakiston as Ross’s crusty Aunt Agatha, whose passion in life is tormenting George; Beatie Edney as the irascible servant Prudie; Luke Norris as stalwart Dr. Dwight Enys; and Gabriella Wilde as Dwight’s secret fiancée, the fetching heiress Caroline Penvenen.
Last season, TV Guide was captivated by Poldark’s “myriad pleasures, not the least of which is Aidan Turner’s swarthy charisma as the chivalrous and perilously proud crusader of Cornwall. … Poldark is the sort of great escape you would be foolish to resist.”
Critics have been equally enthralled with Season 3, which recently aired in the UK. The Independent (London) lauded the “action-filled opener,” with its panoply of plot developments that “helped the atmospheric drama gallop out of the starting blocks.”
And gallop it does. Episode One introduces fresh doubts about the paternity of Elizabeth’s impending baby, along with some consequential new characters, including Ellise Chappell as Elizabeth’s pretty cousin Morwenna. Hired as the governess for Elizabeth’s young son (by her previous marriage to Poldark’s cousin Francis), Morwenna is soon a pawn in George’s grand game to win political influence.
Morwenna would prefer to share company with Demelza’s strapping brother Drake, a lay minister played by Harry Richardson (Dunkirk), but George intends her to marry the recently widowed Reverend Whitworth, portrayed with unctuous piety by Christian Brassington (Elizabeth: The Golden Age). Whitworth gives every indication of being a rank libertine, to the horror of the upright and innocent Morwenna. Meanwhile, George manages to abuse every privilege he accrues in his ruthless climb to power.
Also enlivening the new season are a mysterious plague of frogs, a thwarted famine, and Aunt Agatha’s eagerly anticipated one-hundredth birthday party, which has a catastrophic catch. But the most stirring action involves the French Revolution, which manages to ensnare one of the program’s main characters in its Reign of Terror, prompting Poldark’s most dangerous mission yet.
Perhaps even more perilous—at least for his psyche—is Ross’s cooling attitude toward Demelza. Reckless to a fault, he appears to be throwing it all away—a magistracy, a seat in Parliament, his lands, and even his red-haired beauty. What on earth could he be thinking?
Poldark, Season 3 is a Mammoth Screen production for the BBC and MASTERPIECE. Based on the novels by Winston Graham, it is written and created for television by Debbie Horsfield, produced by Roopesh Parekh and Michael Ray and directed by Joss Agnew and Stephen Woolfenden. The executive producers are Debbie Horsfield, Karen Thrussell and Damien Timmer for Mammoth Screen, Elizabeth Kilgarriff for the BBC and Rebecca Eaton for MASTERPIECE. It is distributed internationally by ITV Studios Global Entertainment.
About MASTERPIECE
The top-rated primetime show on PBS, MASTERPIECE celebrated its 45th anniversary in 2016. MASTERPIECE is presented on PBS by WGBH Boston. Rebecca Eaton is executive producer. Funding for the series is provided by Viking Cruises and Farmers Insurance® with additional support from public television viewers and contributors to The MASTERPIECE Trust. MASTERPIECE is known for presenting iconic shows such as Upstairs Downstairs, Prime Suspect, The Forsyte Saga, Poldark, Sherlock, Downton Abbey, and Victoria.
