It took me a few episodes to get the characters as written in the books out of my mind. Once I did - the series is entertaining on it own.
9 Reviews
Fun but different from the books
mtczajka21 April 2019
Better and Better.
agnabeya14 January 2019
I love how more of the village characters are becoming involved. I cheered out loud when Ma Boggle appeared. It's great that there is more of Roy - with Charles and James becoming rivals. It is a light-hearted nutty piece of great fun. Anyone who doesn't need fun in their life can watch something else. This lifts me just like the books do.
Sorry
valstone5214 December 2018
Good enough for TV
skinnybert28 January 2024
I understand both the high-raters and low: these aren't programs of analysis and psychology, but character and scenery ... you know: TV. I'm not bothered by the deviations from the books as I haven't read them. The strengths of this show rest largely on the acting, because the plotting doesn't particularly matter. More importantly, series 2 reinstates the 90-minute format of the pilot; while this cures season 1's rapid resolves, it also means the occasional filler. Such is the life of TV program.
This particular episode is typical of the run: rife with chance encounters, ending with the villain carefully and succinctly explaining every detail of their nefarious plan. Realism isn't very important here, so the story dances along the ledge of believability, occasionally falling off. But mildly amusing escapism? Pretty good stuff.
There's just enough red herrings and character moments to keep the energy up. On the other hand, it's also like watching a freshly-born colt tripping over its own legs while trying to stand up: pandering to fans and visual tropes of the genre -- often as not doing it clumsily. But not so clumsily that we stop watching, so that's clearly a plus. And we can't complain about trying to add some fun to this world, can we?
This particular episode is typical of the run: rife with chance encounters, ending with the villain carefully and succinctly explaining every detail of their nefarious plan. Realism isn't very important here, so the story dances along the ledge of believability, occasionally falling off. But mildly amusing escapism? Pretty good stuff.
There's just enough red herrings and character moments to keep the energy up. On the other hand, it's also like watching a freshly-born colt tripping over its own legs while trying to stand up: pandering to fans and visual tropes of the genre -- often as not doing it clumsily. But not so clumsily that we stop watching, so that's clearly a plus. And we can't complain about trying to add some fun to this world, can we?
Best Show Ever
tshemmelgarn27 November 2018
Light and funny
ginapeschl8 January 2019
Worse than Series 01
sra-1423 November 2018
This is a dreadful show, not only because it completely revises the nature of the main character and other characters but because it's just plain silly. Ludicrous, even. I optimistically hope the second series would be better than the first but, in fact, it's worse.
Shown in the wrong order
racheladams-5398112 July 2019
I have read all these books and i gave the tv a try but i knew it wasn't going to be exactly like the books. However, we have just got series 2 in the UK and i am disappointed that the episodes are out of order. In series 1 we had The Witch of Wyckhadden which is where she went after a bad hair cut, then, in series 2 we have The Wizard of Evesham which is where the bad haircut took place. So, she went away due to bad hair before the bad hair even happened. Why do they have to do this?
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