Death Comes to Pemberley

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2013

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6.9/10

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Death Comes to Pemberley is a 2013 three-part British television drama based on P. D. James' 2011 novel of the same name, a murder mystery based on the style and characters of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. June 1803, six years after the union of Elizabeth and Mr Darcy: one evening, George Wickham and his wife Lydia are travelling by carriage to Pemberley for a ball with Captain Denny. Wickham and Denny have a dispute, and leave in anger. The two men disappear into the woodland, where Lydia hears two gunshots.

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Fri, 27 Dec, 2013

S1.E2Part 2

In the aftermath of the dramatic events in the woods and Wickham's arrest, Elizabeth reassures the staff at Pemberley that all will be well. However, it is becoming clear that Darcy feels everything is far from well and he starts to retreat from his wife as he seeks to protect the household against the scandal.

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Sat, 28 Dec, 2013

S1.E3Part 3

The trial draws to a close and Wickham's fate looks sealed, until a last-minute turn of events back at Pemberley reveals a surprising suspect much closer to home. It becomes a race against time to prove the real culprit and save an innocent man from death by hanging.

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Fitzwilliam Darcy

Elizabeth Darcy

George Wickham

Sir Selwyn Hardcastle

Lydia Wickham

Cartwright

Colonel Fitzwilliam

Georgiana Darcy

Henry Alveston

Louisa Bidwell

Dr. McFee

Mr. Bidwell

George Pratt

Mrs. Reynolds

Mrs. Bidwell

Will Bidwell

Captain Denny

Mrs. Younge

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Juliette Towhidi

Jane Austen

P. D. James

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This non-Austen sequel to Pride and Prejudice was quite good. It featured an intelligent rendering of the familiar story and characters of the original, but you would expect no less from the PD James novel. Since I watch a lot of British programming, sec=verbal of the actors were familiar to me, and the ensemble cast stayed in their lanes and put on a great collective performance. It must have been fun for them and the director, for they were able to reenact familiar scenes from Pride and Prejudice as memory flashbacks. There were traces i=of character growth here and there, but characters such as the irrepressible Lydia, the cad Wickham, and the drama queen Mrs. Bennett are little changed so quite recognizable. The subplots add enough to the story to carry their weight, especially one of them that ties into the murder mystery, and the same can be said for a few new characters created for this sequel. Small aspects of the developments might be predictable, but there is one twist that is both logical and shocking. What more can you ask of a plot twist?

narrator5603 Jul, 2022