The Durrells of Corfu

Duwwell!

The hot Swede is gay.

ive tried its very pretty but the mother is horrid, fussy and dumb

[quote]The oldest son sits around in his underwear all day and "writes".

Josh O'Connor?

"Based on a book"?

Seriously, OP, are you really that stupid???

[quote] Seriously, OP, are you really that stupid???

What do you mean? The show is based on a trilogy written by the youngest son.

Loved both seasons and very happy it’s coming back for a third. The entire cast work so well together especially the actors playing the Durrell family.

But we watch for Leslie Caron!

I just watched the very first episode during a plane ride and liked it.

The oldest son is Lawrence Durrell, who wrote a number of books. There's a line of dialogue in "The Post" that Meryl said about "a new Lawrence Durrell book."

Also? He may, or may not, have banged his own daughter.

How very Woody of him!

[quote]The oldest son is Lawrence Durrell, who wrote a number of books.

The show is based on the youngest son's, Gerry, books.

Josh O'Connor rocks! I can't wait for the new series.

Indeed, R11. I thought that was understood but thank you for clarifying.

"The oldest son sits around in his underwear all day and "writes". The middle son looks like an escapee from Cabaret's Tomorrow Belongs to Me. The daughter is a dyke. The youngest son has an unhealthy attachment to animals and will probably grow up to be a serial killer."

OP you really are a dope. Or a fairly good troll. The brother you call a "writer" became one of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century. The middle son went nowhere. The daughter struggled through her life, but she was not a dyke. The youngest son became one of the world's leading authorities on wildlife and wrote dozens of well-received books, created many zoos, spent his live devoted to animals, and is considered one of the forerunners of the attempt to make zoos more humane.

and Mother got all the good cock in Corfu

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[quote] and Mother got all the good cock in Corfu

If you watch Season 1 of the tv series, no she didn't. She was taken in by a Swedish 'mo, and she only found out he was a 'mo when she went snooping through his dresser and found compromising photos of him with another man. If she hadn't snooped, she'd be married to a 'mo.

[quote] The youngest son became one of the world's leading authorities on wildlife and wrote dozens of well-received books, created many zoos

Duwwell!

I'm right at the end of Season 1 episode one. Waiting to see if the brother's two friends DP the sister.

Too twee by half.

Example of bad writing:

The conversation between the oldest and second oldest brother. The older brother is talking to the younger brother about famous authors. But he is SHOCKED to discover that his brother isn't interested in the topic.

If you have been brothers with someone for almost 20 years, you would already know that.

It was just exposition for the viewer to show the older brother was well read.

Did you hate the CSI shows as much as I did, R20?

It's charming thus far.

Spoiler alert: the mother catches the Swede doing the man sex.

Why would you spoil that, r23?

There's another TV show I'm watching called "The Crown." It's about this really privileged bunch of people in England.

The dad was a fiend for smoking, and died on lung cancer.

The mom is a big prude, and gets offended really easily.

The big sister is really repressed, and will probably grow up to be a serial killer.

The younger sister is a nympho.

The big sister's husband is a whining male slut, and shows his butt sometimes.

The big sister's eldest son is a nellie little pussy and will probably also grow up to be a serial killer.

But Iwatch it for John Lithgow.

I like to tell you about the TV shows I'm watching. They are so interesting.

I finished Season 2 and it's exactly like Season 1. It seems that every man on Corfu is in love with this mother and she keeps turning them all down. It's frau porn. She should just have sex with some of the hot Greek men and make the show interesting.

I think the second son is gay in real life. He appeared shirtless in a gay movie.

R23 is a huge smelly turd.

Oh, the oldest son is the lead in that gay movie that ISN'T the one that has a thousand threads.

Spiros looks good with his shirt off!

I disagree with you r26....the 2nd season is much better than the first season. The youngest son appearance and cleanliness devolves into the feral child he is. The children blossom in full fledged eccentrics. The second son, Leslie, is particularly fine the second season. The camerawork and photography are much more interesting. Sure, the local people are charming elves and Spiro is too good to be true, but we watch The Durrells to escape deep thoughts for 45 minutes.

I want Spiro, Theo and Sven to take turns blasting a load on my face.

[quote] It seems that every man on Corfu is in love with this mother and she keeps turning them all down.

Just two, right? The guy from Muriel’s Wedding and Spiro?

And Spiro was not romantically interested in her in S1. They must have thought a love triangle would be suspenseful.

[quote] Just two, right? The guy from Muriel’s Wedding and Spiro?

Spiro has a wife and children. He must love from afar.

The guy playing Sven is not the same actor who played the swimmer in Muriel's Wedding.

[quote]The guy playing Sven is not the same actor who played the swimmer in Muriel's Wedding.

r33 is talking about the guy in Season 2.

The businessman who has the jealous ex-gf is the guy From Muriel’s Wedding.

Fascinating. Gerry Durrell’s books were some of my favourites growing up. I always wanted to have his childhood. I didn’t know the made a show based on the books.

Liked season 1 a lot. Season 2, I didn't care for the first episode with the evil landlady but may have to try again. I've fantasized about just packing everything up and moving somewhere far away before so this is a bit like living that daydream vicariously.

Do they move into a new house in S2 then?

(Please don't spoil anything, I'm about to watch S1 finale tonight)

We can’t answer the question, because you didn’t want any spoilers R40

I just want Spiro inside of me.

Aw, poor Sven. So hot. I'd show him the man loving. I want his big Swedish meatball!

I want Larry (Josh O’Connor) deeply inside of me.

Have you seen the cock on that boy?

Is it visible in that Gawd's Country movie?

Yes, r45. It is one of the most dongful shots in gay dong movie history.

Yes, it is

And I’m not the GOC troll (may his name be cursed) but God’s Own Country was excellent

I thought for a moment Larry and Sven would get it on. The actor gives off a bit of that Wildean energy.

Josh O'Connor is going to be playing Marius in a non-musical tv version of Les Miserables. Olivia Colman plays Mrs. Thenardier. Dominic West is Jean Valjean.

Best use of this song EVER.

I love Keeley Hawes!

Everytime Spyros and Mrs. Darrow are together the chemistry is combustible.

But Spyros is married!

I would like to see that Greek stud relieving his tensions by power fucking Leslie, the 2nd son.

Swarthy Greeks like blond boys.

Is Theos (played by Yorgos Karamihos) supposed to be asexual? He doesn’t seem interested in either sex.

Theos is the most handsome.

[quote]Is Theos (played by Yorgos Karamihos) supposed to be asexual? He doesn’t seem interested in either sex.

He's always hanging around Gerry. You do the math.

Pedo?

EVERY movie of TV show has a pedo character r57

Have you seen even one episode of The Durrells On Corfu?

Total pedo orgy.

Season 3 trailer

Theo is not a child predator! He's a bit of a nerd and both he and Gerry nerd out over animals.

He IS handsome, and I wondered if they'd pair him with the mother.

So far, Spyros is the winner in the chemistry department.

I bet Leslie would love a big swarthy dick in him....

Spyros is married with children. And the show is frau porn, so in order for Spyros and Mrs. Durrell to get together, there's going to have to be a huge disease like scarlet fever that kills his wife and children. Then he will be free to court Mrs. Durrell. And conveniently, the scarlet fever will leave Spyros sterile, so he will have to adopt the Durrell children as his own.

I hope Season 3 doesn't bring another lover for Mrs. Durrell. That storyline is worn out.

The trailer seems to suggest just that happening, R61.

"I've never seen one that big!"

"I get that a lot."

I bet he does!

I saw that too R63

Cheeky big dicked Josh!

The real adult Gerry was quite handsome.

Oh, that Leslie is growing on me.

[quote]Oh, that Leslie is growing on me.

He's an outdoorsman!

I know Josh is supposed to be the "actory" one but little Leslie moments have made me realize Callum Woodhouse is really good.

He had a moment where he cried and it did not seem scripted.....in that same scene he really showed love for his brother and mother, despite being such a grumpus generally.

That scene really got to me too R68

Just watched the cricket episode.

Aw, Spiros loves Louisa. Let my frau-y support of them as a couple commence.

Sven calling Hugh "Huge" never gets old.

Also, Viggo is pretty hot! Go Sven!

Leslie was always wearing such baggy hunting clothes that it was quite a OH, HELLO moment when he was in only a bathing suit. Wow, what a great hard body he has....

Unless Max Befort comes back to the show I have no interest.

Max was a cutie.

The series is directed by Leslie Caron's son with Peter Hall.

Oh, that would explain her connection to the show. She was very funny in the cricket episode I just saw.

I didn't know Peter Hall was married to Leslie Caron. Was she mentioned in the diaries? I guess the diaries came after their divorce.

Leslie dumped him for Warren Beatty. They have 2 kids - a son and daughter.

Pure Fun !

Wondering when it starts again in UK

The start of season 3 will be this month r80

Interview with Callum embedded in this link. He’s adorable.

The one thing that bothers me about this show, especially in Season 1, is that they keep complaining they don't have food, yet Gerry has 90 million animals that need to be fed.

Funny to see Downton's Spratt show up in season one as Leslie Caron's butler.

Still a shopbottom, that one.

Love this cast!

I tried to watch the PBS movie from about 10 years back (Imelda Staunton as Louise, Russell Tovey as Leslie and Matthew Goode as Larry) but I couldn’t get through 20 minutes of it.

Fun fact I just learned.....

The guy who plays Donald is the producer Christoper Hall's son - and ergo, he is Leslie Caron's grandson.

That is indeed a fun fact, R86. Thanks for posting.

Season 3 just started in the UK

The Durrells IN Corfu

Is this based on Gerald Durrell's "My Family And Other Animals"? If so, they must have made a lot of changes for TV- I don't remember any romance for the mother in the book. It was all narrated from the youngest son's point of view so there were lots of poetic descriptions of wildlife along with some mild toilet humor and plenty of slapstick comedy that showed how every single character was eccentric in some way.

R90, did they feature the Durrell Challenge?

[quote]Is this based on Gerald Durrell's "My Family And Other Animals"?

The opening credits say that its based on Gerry's trilogy "The Durrells In Corfu." But they have made several changes. First, the oldest brother was already married when they moved to Corfu. Second, the children were raised in India because their father had a job there. The tv show sort of makes it out as if they were some staid British family trying to survive in a new culture. But the children were already used to a non-British life and probably the impetus for them moving to Corfu after the father died was that they just didn't like the British environment. So they were much more adaptable than the tv show allows for.

Gerald Durrell's "My Family And Other Animals" was previously adapted to a two hour movie for PBS about 10 years ago. Matthew Goode and Russell Tovey were the two older brothers.

Yes, and Imelda was the mom.

I do love Keeley Hawes, though.

And apparently Aunt Hermoine is a regular this season. Old girl is getting the cobwebs cleaned outta that box on a regular basis now.

First episode of Season 3 was a bit stupid. I hope the writing gets better.

So fellow Durrells watchers....I discovered this show after downloading it on iTunes for a flight.

I am traveling again and looking for something that might have a similar mix of drama, comedy, quirky characters, etc. I'm not opposed to some sadness or serious life challenges but I am SO not into the dystopian themes that seem to pervade so much of TV.....nor am I much for the procedurals and forensic shows.

Might you fine people have a suggestion for me to watch/download?

[quote]a similar mix of drama, comedy, quirky characters, etc.

Gavin & Stacey - by Ruth Jones and James Corden - Comedy

Stella - by Ruth Jones - Comedy

Cranford and Return to Cranford (has more British dames packed in than any other show) - drama

Larkrise to Candleford (sort of like a British Little House on the Prairie)

Goodnight Sweetheart - comedy

Miranda - comedy

Cold Feet - drama

Benidorm - comedy

The Cafe - drama

And some of the light murder mysteries (ie no procedurals, no forensics)

Father Brown

Shakespeare & Hathaway

Agatha Raisin

Rosemary & Thyme

I could list dozens more

Thank you R97! I will check those out.

I love this show. Great acting, decent plot and beautiful Corfu. ♥️

Duwwell!

Thought it started at 9 so I missed it. Will catch the rerun at midnight.

The actor playing Leslie is looking fucking hot this year.

And I have a new appreciation for Josh O'Connor after God's Own Country - with that enormous cock that nearly required its own trailer and billing.

[quote]However, it seems to be for the frauiest fraus who ever fraued.

Oh, fuck off and DIE, very painfully, asshole.

Blocked, plus Flames and Freaks.

Aunt Hermoine on the map with a Hitler mustache made me laugh.

Good episode

I want to be tag teamed by Larry and Leslie

Callum Woodhouse had a behind the scenes Instagram story where Josh was hugging Callum so hard that he practically choking him; Callum had turned beet red and he looked he on the verge of passing out.

I want to turn beet red choking on Josh's monster dong.

[quote] I want to turn beet red choking on Josh's monster dong.

me next!

On again tonight, bitches!

Glad I found this thread today as I haven't been able to remember when it airs. Just watched episode 1 on line at wliw.org and plan to watch ep 2 tomorrow at 8pm on ch 13. I really enjoy this show .

It's so low key but I love this show. Makes me want to go to Corfu. Only place I've been in Greece was to Crete in August when it was full of German tourists.

This show will be nothing until Spiros gets completely nude. C'mon, can't we have an outdoor shower scene?

All the men on here are hot, really. Well, not Zoltan.

But Theo is handsome, Leslie is cute. Larry is sexy and Spiros is just a beefy DILF god. Yum.

Poor Aunt Hermione!

Just after she got her cooter poked, too.

Duwwell!

My Family and Other Animals is one of my favorite books of all time. Can't wait to watch this.

Love Theo 😊

It's never mentioned but this series has the best production design, costume and hair design of all these British shows, including Downton Abbey.

I love that well respected, visionary author and philosopher Lawrence Durell is pretty much reduced to " Pretentious douche Larry" through Gerry's eyes.

Why does that ugly Henry Miller walk around butt naked but we can't have a Spiros butt shot? They're doing the last season and I demand to see at least a butt shot of Spiros.

I know Spiros has to have an impossibly fat cock.

Season 4 is the last. Which is good, I think. Josh O'Connor would be leaving after this one to do The Crown, anyway.

Josh really lives up to his big dick face. I like the pants the men wear, they're hiked up enough to see major bulge. Callum looks packing too.

Who’s the Duwell twoll?

Its amazing that t he house exterior and all the outside scenes are filmed on Corfu but the interiors are a set in England. Think of all the scenes where they are running in and out of the house. They match perfectly. Still i was disappointed, I want to live in a house like that in a setting like that. It would be heaven. I love how they sit around in the evening and read and talk, not even a radio. It will be sad when they have to move back to England due to the war.

[quote] I like the pants the men wear, they're hiked up enough to see major bulge. Callum looks packing too.

Hated him and his character in the beginning but Callum has grown on me and yes, he looks like he's packing too!

[quote] Its amazing that the house exterior and all the outside scenes are filmed on Corfu but the interiors are a set in England.

I think the outdoor scenes are South Africa. But yes, that's weird that they don't just film it all there.

[quote]The oldest son sits around in his underwear all day and "writes".

I haven't seen him in his underwear once this season. And now that we know what's under the underwear, we're paying attention.

No I'm pretty sure the outdoor scenes are filmed in Corfu. There's a re-created village that they use for the village scenes. It was a former tourist attraction like Williamsburg. They used it for the market scenes at any rate.

Looks Greek to me

I guess y'all are right. They talked in some interview about filming something in S Africa but it must have been a scene or two and not the entire show.

Loved Gerald Durrell s books. Could never get into lawrences. So what happened to the middle Son who went nowhere. I'd like to know more about what became of his nothing.

A recent article

Where the real family members ended up.....

Interesting r134

I didn't realize there are eight episodes this season, instead of six.

Another link similar to R131

This week was interesting...very different from usual.

LOL literally at "Love your ass!"

Also....hello Henry Miller walking around naked

[quote] Henry Miller walking around naked

Which is why in the final season coming up, we should not be denied the chance to see Spiros' meaty ass and thighs.

Stopped watching when it became repetitive. Larry is channeling Alan Alda. Gerry is morphing into Gollum. Its the Waltons on a Greek Isle. Snoozefest.

Is Cavill a huge fan?

Louisa had two suitors this week, one a man and one a woman!

Do you think that really is Josh's cock in the pic above. It has to be prosthetic.

It's real. You can see it flopping around in GOC.

Spiros would show his cock, too, but he'd need to bring along the wheelbarrow he uses to support it on set.

Well, that was a lot to happen in one episode.

Duwwell?

GeeGee. Looks good in a turban.

GeeGee was kinda handsome, for sure.

I do loathe that old sea captain, though. He wasn't any more interesting the first two times, either.

Ooh, Leslie looked all kinds of good with his shirt off!

The main (?) story this week was weak, the Italian family. Badly written, not well directed, who knows. The firefighters, okay. The youngest boy with a girlfriend, very cute. Margo kissing the saint's foot was funny. Good scenes with Spiro and Theo as well.

For the first time I really paid attention to the transition between the interior and exterior scenes. There was a very flashy one in which Mrs D is leaning out a window, POV outside, that pans to her stepping away from it, POV inside the house.

Yeah, it was weird for sure R153. The guy playing the Ferrari son was hot, though. But it very much seemed like one of those treading water episodes.

That was a clever shot - the camera outside observing Mama D at the open window in the real Corfu house, then as she withdraws into the house, the camera tracks inside as well, and we're seamlessly on the set back in the UK.

Louisa wants Spiros in her quite deeply.

new episode tonight!

Duwwell!

THAT was fun. Mostly.

I found this episode kind of depressing and I'm so depressed already about the elections, I needed more cheering up tonight.

Me too R160. This whole season has been pretty subdued for me. Thank goodness for Margo and the scenery.

At least there’s fantasizing about Josh’s dong....

Sven!

new episode tonight!

Duwwell!

Forbidden gay love story!

Leslie Caron is back!

Well, the actor playing Henry is not altogether bad to look at.

I do love me some Sven.

Spiro is going to poke Louisa in the cooter!

Why is Henry Miller naked and not Larry?

There was a missed chance for Larry to be gang banged by the entire police force (and especially Leslie) when he chained himself to that filing cabinet. Very disappointing.

Because Josh O'Connor's dick is so enormous, they'd have to blur out a LOT of the screen.

And give that huge thing a screen credit!

"Call me Louisa one last time"

MAAAAAAAAAAARY!!!!!!!!! I am a crying, blubbering mess.

I am WRECKED, gurl. Wrecked.

Duwwell!

Pol-DARK

R173 that makes no more sense than the other ten times you've posted it

Prin-CESS

R175, you don’t know DL. The “Duwwell!” posts are the most DL on this thread and you don’t even realize how they tie to this show or the Durrell family. Sad!

R175, then you are truly lost.

Guess so. The last several posts are from halfwits who think pronouncing words makes a clever comment.

I’m with you on that one r179

I knew Daphne was either going to lose that baby or it would come out that she tricked him.

That cunt!

[quote] I knew Daphne was either going to lose that baby or it would come out that she tricked him.

Especially because we all know he's gay. There's no way he put his thingy in her thingy. The furtive looks he gives Spiros are telling.

Spiros topping Leslie....

*falls off chair*

Ok, I started watching the show a month ago. Today I watched the season 4 opener, so digging out this thread and rant away: The show just looks gorgeous. Just for the scenery it's worth to watch. I don't mind that the stories are fluff. The world is sad enough in June 2020. So, I actually appreciate fluff right now. Callum Woodhouse is the standout surprise imo. In season 1, he and his character was basically just playing grumpy, nothing else. In season 2 going forward, they gave Leslie more to do and Woodhouse accepted the challenge. The character of Margo seems a missed opportunity. Really nice acting, and the character seems quite smart, but except a job-of-the-week, the character doesn't do much. I just want to grab her by her shoulders, and yell at her 'do something, anything really.' The actress is to good for the role. The older brother's portrayal is overrated here, imho. For three seasons Josh O'Connor was basically just smirking as a reaction to everything. That man better have a big dick. Keeley Hawes: Love her, even in this. But comedy may not be her thing. There are rare scenes where she gets to shine and show her craft. But mostly she just puts on an embarrassed face.

The one thing that really, really rubs me the wrong way: The show is so damn contemporary about their character's interactions. So, Larry has a live-in girlfriend? In 1935? Leslie has three girlfriends, and the only concern the mother has is that he is hurting a girl's heart? I don't buy it. And I don't buy that Larry can speak about his sex life so openly with his mother. The way they all handle homosexuality is admirable, but not credible for the mid-1930s. The show doesn't act 1930-ish. It's too progressive even for 1990.

Rant out. Still like to watch it.

I loved this show, R184. But you have a relatively accurate assessment of it.

Callum Woodhouse was definitely the standout. He broke my heart in later seasons. Margo as a character FINALLY gets a chance to grow in season 4.

[quote]The “Duwwell!” posts are the most DL on this thread

Uh, it's nonsensical BS that has to do with one of the actors that attracts stans to this board, and N O T H I N G to do with this show.

[quote]The one thing that really, really rubs me the wrong way: The show is so damn contemporary about their character's interactions. So, Larry has a live-in girlfriend? In 1935? Leslie has three girlfriends, and the only concern the mother has is that he is hurting a girl's heart? I don't buy it. And I don't buy that Larry can speak about his sex life so openly with his mother. The way they all handle homosexuality is admirable, but not credible for the mid-1930s. The show doesn't act 1930-ish. It's too progressive even for 1990.

Which is kind of the point of the whole thing. The Durrell's WERE unconventional for their time.