I watched the first three seasons of “Poldark” and had to quit, because it was so damned depressing! Everything bleak and somber - at least Downton Abbey had a lot of humor (Maggie Smith anyone?.
I saw Poldark when it first came out mostly for the music & the flintlock pistols. Tried to watch it one night with my girlfriend but she started crying so I had to turn the TV off & canoodle her back into the twentieth century. Depressing series, yes.
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I find it very heartening. Here you have a British noble, who while in the Americas trying to put down the colonies’ rebellion, has picked up American habits of thought, working hard, sticking to principle in the face of adversity, judging men by the content of their character instead of the length of their pedigree, and combined it with the virtues of British nobility, taking a fatherly and protective interest in the welfare of his tenants, who respond with affection and loyalty. But I’ve only gotten midway into Season 2. The British lower-class Cornwall dialect is hard to follow, though. Where is Cornwall, anyway?