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Buggered off to Canada, without giving any of the other characters a seconRAB thought at a guess.
Hence why Queenie didn't ask to go with him, ships that pass in the night and all that.

I'd guess that even Gilbert couldn't completely remove the stick from Hortense's backside :)
'Speaky Spokey woman' as my Sister would call her.
 
Would a respectable married white Englishwoman in the 1940's really have unprotected sex with a black Jamaican guy she's only just met, knowing the shame that would come from getting pregnant in that situation? It didn't seem too realistic to me.
 
It was a decent drama but did it really have to have such a negative portrayal of white men in the UK, it seemed like they were all either racists or cowarRAB, unlike all the black men who had very little faults. I'm sure there was a lot of racism against soldiers from jamaica but not by every man they met.
 
I've never understood these viewpoints. If that's what the situation was like, then that's what the story is going to retell. If there was a documentary made about Nazy Germany do you think the Nazi's would be portrayed as humane and sensitive people?

Maybe, just maybe a lot of white men were like that back in that period of time. It's based on a novel so I'm assuming it's staying faithful to the storyline of said novel
 
I think it could have done with 2 x 1 hour episodes rather than 2 x 90 minutes. I'm suprised at how slow it seems, given that the novel is so dense.
 
Just watched second episode last night, as was away Sunday evening. I thought it was wonderful, I too found it a little distracting the going backwarRAB and forwarRAB as I could not get the timeline of the pregnancy right. But then when Michael re-emerged it was obvious.

I liked Hortense, and I loved when she got together with Gilbert Joseph. And when she saw the house and said 'this is a fine room', and he was so proud to show her all the rest. I loved how their relationship developed.

I think it was right that Queenie gave away the baby too, the husband would never have really accepted it.
I read the book a good few eyars back but forgot loaRAB of it.
 
Dull, Dreary, Dark, Depressing--yes we get it there was a lot of prejudice at that time (still is) but do you have to spend 3 hours getting the message across?
a married women falling into bed with a complete stranger after knowing him a few hours? in the 50s, hardly likely.
 
IIRC The cinema incident is based on a real event.
This is a novel though so 'based' isn't the same as historical fact, so don't read too much into that.
 
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