If one year's back on my shoulder

[sovay]

Not having read any of the source novels, approximately twenty minutes into the first series of Poldark (1975–77) as I lay on the couch self-medicating with the late eighteenth century, I remarked to spatch, "Is there any aspect of this homecoming that is not going to be a clusterfuck?" on which the answer turned out to be no, whence it seems the engine of the plot. Since I came to this show by having to wait for the third season of Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17) to arrive at my local branch library, I was more than ordinarily entertained by the line pertaining to the hero's soldiering past, "Shocking business, eh? Losing the Colonies." The bomber leather frock coat is as impressive as advertised.

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[moon_custafer]

A friend and housemate of mine used to watch that adaptation. All I can remember is that in later episodes/seasons, Chris Biggins plays the amoral and perverted vicar that somebody-or-other ends up married to.

[sovay]

A friend and housemate of mine used to watch that adaptation. All I can remember is that in later episodes/seasons, Chris Biggins plays the amoral and perverted vicar that somebody-or-other ends up married to.

I had to look him up by name, but since he's Nero from I, Claudius, that's some screen persona. I am a grand total of two episodes in and extra-diegetically enjoying Robin Ellis as the dashing, brooding, lower-and-uppercase Romantic hero of Ross Poldark when I saw him first and know him best as the socially unhandy (and quite lovely) George Nowack from the 1978 BBC She Loves Me.

[moon_custafer]

Fiona (the friend and housemate) had come across a few anecdotes regarding Ellis’s Poldark-era bewilderment at his sudden conversion to a sex symbol.

[sovay]

Fiona (the friend and housemate) had come across a few anecdotes regarding Ellis’s Poldark-era bewilderment at his sudden conversion to a sex symbol.

(Your friend whose book I own!) I find that very endearing of him. I can't imagine it's at all normal to experience, even if he does look brilliant in said frock coat styled after a bomber jacket.