Mapp and Lucia.

[Maggot]

David Quantick has just described it as Ham on Rye.

 

[Ponyutd]

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...316522/mapp-and-lucia-episode-one-review.html

"Camp, sly, stinging and clever"...

Pretty good review

 

[youngian]

I do get a frisson from watching bossy posh totty Anna Chancellor manipulating and ordering everyone around her.

 

[danny la rouge]

Mrs la rouge was a big fan of the books and reckons this is much better. She didn't like the previous attempt.

 

[Sprocket.]

Just watched last night's episode and sadly I have to say I feel a bit disappointed. I loved the original adaptations and feel the need to scour the net and buy them on DVD if available.

 

[Shirl]

I loved the first episode and Miranda Richardson's facial expressions are just bloody amazing I watched the 1986? series on the box but so far I like this one better.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Just watched last night's episode and sadly I have to say I feel a bit disappointed. I loved the original adaptations and feel the need to scour the net and buy them on DVD if available.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mapp-Lucia-Complete-Series-1985-1986/dp/B000EWOO4M

You may find cheaper on ebay but this was the first link google threw up.
Quite a few available by the looks of it.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Just about to watch and wanted to say before I start that I saw a play with Anna Chancellor in it recently and I have to say - without doubt - she is the sexiest person I have ever seen

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I've just binged on the second 2 and thought the last one in particular was hysteical. Although the Queen Elizabeth moment was also hilarious. And ooooh the outfits! Lucia's floaty silk blouse/trouser ensembles *faints*

(I didn't watch the 80's version and have not read the books so have nothing to compare it to)

 

[Maggot]

The first episode started off rather slowly, but once it got going it was great fun. I was trying to think who Mapp's teeth/speech reminded me of, then I got it - Esther Rantzen!

 

[trashpony]

Omg the clothes were amazing weren't they?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Omg the clothes were amazing weren't they?

And the interiors...and Mapp's garden! Precisely my idea of the perfect English garden.

 

[Maggot]

The garden and the interiors are the actual garden and interiors of Lamb House where the exteriors were filmed. Apart from the garden room which was constructed specially.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

The garden and the interiors are the actual garden and interiors of Lamb House where the exteriors were filmed. Apart from the garden room which was constructed specially.

Well it sure is beautiful and I'd like to visit.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Miranda Richardson was just brilliant. Her facial expressions throughout had me in knots laughing.....the scene where she's chasing what she thinks is the King's car was brilliant. . Lol...
I started to watch the old series again today and have to say I can't choose between them. Both are great.
I hope they film a few more of the books..especially the first three books which weren't filmed in the 80's.

Oh, and yeah, the clothes, furniture, buildings, scenery were fantastic!!

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Dp..

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Miranda Richardson was just brilliant.

I absolutley loved her in the last one where she'd caught Lucia in her bathing costume in the garden and was almost exploding at the lunch afterwards - desperate to tell everyone what she knew

I think I might watch it again. It was such a delight and i was suffering from the effects of a rather long night when I watched it this morning...

 

[boohoo]

Omg the clothes were amazing weren't they?

I love the clothes though I don't think that style suits me

 

[boohoo]

Well have watched two episode - really enjoying it but don't remember Mapp being such a villain in the books. I think both women are insinuated as being as bad as each other.

I would love to see them make Lucia in London - one of my favourite books.

Will have to watch the original series.

 

[TikkiB]

It's prompted me to go back to the Mapp and Lucia book - started it yesterday and it's pretty true to the book, although Anna Chancellor's Lucia is rather more sympathetic (simpatico ) than in the book. Still they are both delicious.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Watched the entire old series again over the past two days.
Pure genius.

 

[QOTH]

Ohhh, i had no idea they'd made a new one. Loved the books and the old series.

Has anyone read the Tom Holt sequels? I was just thinking that if I was a better writer I'd write a sequel set during the war, but it turns out someone already did...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1847001.Lucia_in_Wartime

 

[quimcunx]

I loved, loved the first series, haven't watched it since. Didn't like the books though I expected to love them. they should be just the sort of thing I'd love. Wasn't at all sure when I watched this but by the end of the episode I'd warmed to it considerably. Perhaps because I don't remember much of the detail of the original so I felt like I was becoming reacquainted with old friends.

 

[Ponyutd]

Geraldine McEwan has just died aged 82.

Au Reservoir

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Au Reservoir indeed

 

[wiskey]

I didn't know this was a 'thing' and stumbled across the first two episodes on iplayer. Clearly I'm uninitiated but they were really hard work to watch! I fell asleep by the end of both

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Watched the entire old series again over the past two days.
Pure genius.

I've watched the new series again and spotted loads more little delightful little bits that I missed first time round. Great Stuff. I may even get the old series on DVD.

I've also bought the whole set of books for 99p for my Kindle. I'm really enjoying them.

 

[trashpony]

I think I'd like to see the first series.

I did love this one tho. And I miss Rye!

 

[Sirena]

The first series had Nigel Hawthorne and he couldn't be surpassed! But Miranda Richardson is so exquisite too!

I have to admit that the new series didn't have that glorious wickedness of the first...

Would that there were a god of television who could telescope the two series according to my wishes.