(Sorry, this was supposed to be up in the morn but with all the flood fiasco I didn’t get to post it until late Monday.)
It was a little sad this morning not being able to share any Downton comments with you. Dawn over at By Sun and Candlelight was also feeling the void so she started Masterpiece Monday to discuss Sunday night’s Masterpiece show. I love the idea and I was eager to join in but last night they all watched Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop but our local station was playing Upstairs, Downstairs. I guess it really didn’t matter since I tried to watch The Old Curiosity Shop when it first aired but I just couldn’t get into it. I thought it was a little boring. Maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood.
The next show they are watching is South Riding. I saw it last year and it was decent but I’d have to rewatch it to remember it well enough to discuss. The only problem is that my local PBS station is fundraising for the next couple of weeks so I’ll have to watch it online if I want to participate. Frankly, if I am going to watch Anna Maxwell Martin star in a show, I’d much rather watch her in Bleak House, which I looove. And now that I think about it…watching Gillian Anderson in Bleak House will get me prepped for watching Great Expectations on April 1, which also stars Gillian.
Yes, I think that’s what I’ll do. I looked at the calendar and I’ll divide the episodes into two hour blocks
Sunday, March 4: Parts 1-2
Sunday, March 11: Parts 3-4
Sunday, March 18: Parts 5-6
Sunday, March 25: Parts 7-8
The following Mondays I’ll post my thoughts and comments. If you’d like to join along and don’t already have the DVD, you can watch it streaming on Netflix or Amazon Prime.
Here is a trailer for Bleak House, although it mostly focuses on Lady Deadlock and not any of my other favorite characters.



I think this will be a great preparation for the next Dicken’s story from Masterpiece Theater, Great Expectations on April 1 & 8. Yay!

Watch Great Expectations Preview on PBS. See more from Masterpiece.

Then…. when we are done with that we have the premiere of Julian Fellowes’ mini-series Titanic starting on Saturday, April 14 .



This blog’s TV Talk Mondays will be jumping this spring! I can’t wait!