Maya Dutt

The series began in a thrilling manner, until episode 9 of season 1, when we're told that young Isaiah of 10000 BC grows up to be Gavin, having passed through a sinkhole to 1988. In the interests of science fiction that can be believed, but not the transition from a very blond boy to a very black-haired adult!! How could the casting director have allowed this to happen? 🤣🤣🤣

The best drama series I've ever watched. Read all the books too, that have been published to date. Any comparison between books and movies will end up unfair to both. To a very great extent, the series brought the books to life, but of course casting cannot always be perfect. So too, the scripting of very longwinded books will have to leave much out, and change a few facts. A few hiccups with casting aside, and all said and done, the books and the series have complemented each other, and have been very soul-satisfying.

An unbelievable thing is that the doctor announces the baby has Downs Syndrome so late into the pregnancy, when there are tests to detect it as early as 10 weeks, and certainly during the 18th week battery of tests that are usually conducted.

Thank God I watched the 1995 movie first. It was perfect -- casting, acting, picturisation, and all. Ang Lee did justice to the story. As for this 2008 version, I read somewhere that the "aim behind this miniseries was to make viewers forget Emma Thompson's adaptation." Far from forgetting the 1995 interpretation, this 2008 series drove home the realisation that its only saving grace was Dan Stevens as Edward Ferrers.

Excellent drama series (!), indeed a lesson in what not to do. The main character, and a whole bunch of other characters too -- keeping on making the same mistakes over and over again, and never learning from their bad experiences!! And some of them are supposed to be clever lawyers! 🤣🤣

I absolutely loved DiP, and was overjoyed to discover BP. But Chris Marshall's Humphrey in this series is a bit of a disappointment. Not his personality or his quirks: they're as enjoyable as ever. But his face looks ravaged and much older than his DiP version. Age catching up on the actor, or just a poor make-up artist? As the series wound down to the Christmas special, it seemed to become weirder. A wedding gets cancelled for no significant reason; Humphrey and Martha take in a temporary foster child Ryan. So far so good. But suddenly, in the Christmas Special, the very same boy is little thief being kept in the police station until a social worker can come pick him up.

Never have I seen such a pathetically directed and cast drama series. I accept that it is historical fiction, but yhe word fiction has been taken too far, showing a blatant disregard of demographic principles in 19th century English society.

Pathetic movie. Can't understand how actors like Mamta Mohandas and Anoop Menon could be part of this project.

Episode 785, 18 March 2023: Two characters, RG and his henchman, are shown using cell phones, in a flashback scene supposed to have occurred at the time of Neeraja's father's murder!! Decades before cell phones were made.

There are shades of a Mohanlal--Keerthi Suresh starrer 2018 Malayalam movie "Geethanjali" directed by Priyadarsan, which has the same plot of twin sisters falling in love with the same man, one twin killing the other, throwing her mother off a balcony, and committing other murders, to conceal the truth of the evil twin masquerading as the murdered good twin.