New Miniseries

I really like this miniseries.

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell's classic explores the simmering, restrained passion between two very different people who fall in love in spite of themselves.

Set against the backdrop of Victorian England's industrial north, it follows the fortunes of Margaret Hale, one of 19th century literature's most original heroines.
Played by Daniela Denby-Ashe, Margaret is a privileged, middle class southerner who is forced to settle in the northern town of Milton.

Margaret takes instant offence to the town and its people. She becomes terribly lonely and hates the dirt, noise and lack of civilisation, blaming their new way of life for her mother's ailing health.

Her distaste for the town and its people extends to handsome and charismatic cotton mill owner John Thornton, (Richard Armitage), whom she believes epitomises everything she dislikes about the North.

However, Margaret gradually begins to settle in Milton. Her social conscience awakens and she befriends some of the local mill workers, learning about their poverty and workplace struggles.

As events conspire to throw Margaret and Thornton together, the two spirited characters have to overcome their repressed physical attraction for one another and conquer prejudices of class and circumstance.

Cast

Daniela Denby-Ashe - Margaret Hale

Richard Armitage - John Thornton (<<< one of my favorites :)

Sinead Cusack - Hannah Thornton

Lesley Manville - Maria Hale

Tim Pigott-Smith - Richard Hale

Pauline Quirke - Dixon

Brendan Coyle - Nicholas Higgins

 

 

This little miniseries really get my attention. I have no idea why....sometimes I feel like a 6 year old kid again. Heh-heh...(that's an 'ok' thing, right? I'm not totally insane?)

First it was "The A-Team", next "Robinhood", then "Merlin", and finally "Macgyver", and now...... "North and South" has stolen my attention! :)

There's only four episodes, but, you know...a good movie is a good movie so why not watch it? * * *