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A review by curls
Ross Poldark by Winston Graham
5.0
Words cannot describe how much I love this tv series...
Yeah, I said. The show is better.
I know this is a site for reading and “the book is always better”, etc. But I found my love for the show before I read the books. Don’t mistake me, the books are good. But I adore this TV show and my favorite moments from the show are not in the books.
Captain Ross Poldark is coming home to Cornwall after the American Revolutionary War.
He comes home to find his father has died, his wealth gone, home and land in ruin, and his fiancée Elizabeth engaged to his cousin Francis.
Ouch.
Ross decides to pick up the pieces of his life. Keep on keeping on. He works his land, is good to his tenants, and has the idea of opening the family mine back up in search for copper.
Ross is a man of the people. His time in the war and being in America has given him the attitude that all people are created equal. This goes over as well as one would expect with the upper class British society that Ross despises.
Ross really decides to give society the finger by marrying his scullery maid Demelza.
I love that the story doesn’t end with the couple getting married, but shows the ups and downs of being married. Marriage is fun, it’s hard, it’s frustrating, and it’s rewarding. So many stories end with the couple getting married and starting their happily ever after, but there is so much more that can be told. I love stories where the prince marries a common girl, or a gentleman marries his scullery maid, but think about after the wedding when things get rough. There are vast social differences to overcome, families disapproving, judgmental people gossiping, etc. Marriage is not always sunshine and roses.
Go watch it. It comes on PBS and it’s free on Amazon Prime. Then go read the book. And come talk to me about it, because my husband is straight up sick of hearing me go on about how great it.
Yeah, I said. The show is better.
I know this is a site for reading and “the book is always better”, etc. But I found my love for the show before I read the books. Don’t mistake me, the books are good. But I adore this TV show and my favorite moments from the show are not in the books.
Captain Ross Poldark is coming home to Cornwall after the American Revolutionary War.
He comes home to find his father has died, his wealth gone, home and land in ruin, and his fiancée Elizabeth engaged to his cousin Francis.
Ouch.
Ross decides to pick up the pieces of his life. Keep on keeping on. He works his land, is good to his tenants, and has the idea of opening the family mine back up in search for copper.
Ross is a man of the people. His time in the war and being in America has given him the attitude that all people are created equal. This goes over as well as one would expect with the upper class British society that Ross despises.
Ross really decides to give society the finger by marrying his scullery maid Demelza.
“He realized with a sense of half-bitter amusement that that marriage would finally damn him in the eyes of his own class. For while the man who slept with his kitchen maid only aroused sly gossip, the man who married her made himself personally unacceptable in their sight.”
I love that the story doesn’t end with the couple getting married, but shows the ups and downs of being married. Marriage is fun, it’s hard, it’s frustrating, and it’s rewarding. So many stories end with the couple getting married and starting their happily ever after, but there is so much more that can be told. I love stories where the prince marries a common girl, or a gentleman marries his scullery maid, but think about after the wedding when things get rough. There are vast social differences to overcome, families disapproving, judgmental people gossiping, etc. Marriage is not always sunshine and roses.
Go watch it. It comes on PBS and it’s free on Amazon Prime. Then go read the book. And come talk to me about it, because my husband is straight up sick of hearing me go on about how great it.