Les Miserables on Masterpiece, 2019

In Russia, movie watch you.

Thanks for the reminder, OP!

Beautiful scenery.

Saw the whole thing back when it aired on BBC. Gorgeous scenery but the writing has no meat to it. Same problem as with that Howards End adaptation last year.

There's an earlier thread for this show but it's just posters bitching about the casting of black people, so you might as well share your thoughts here.

DVR'd because of GoT. I'll watch it tomorrow night.

Nitt loving it. But Derek Jacobi's turn was simply beautiful.

r6 Agreed. He really touched me with that performance. A true legend.

I feel like Javert was a bit too passionate. Otherwise spot on. I even hated Marius a tiny bit less than usual. Thenardier was great.

It's weird to me that people are complaining about a black Javert. He wasn't actually white in the book.

It's been done.

It's really not a terribly interesting story. So, no.

Stopped after 2nd episode.

I have to agree with R11. The story keeps getting adaptations, one after the other. I don't know if it had something to do with the popularity of the musical, but I just don't find the story at all compelling. I honestly don't get who is reading that book and thinking, "what a great story."