Overview
Blandings Castle is dysfunction junction, the home of a chaotic family struggling to keep itself in order. Clarence Emsworth, ninth earl and master of Blandings Castle, yearns with all his soul to be left in peace; preferably in the company of his beloved pig, The Empress. But he never is. There is always someone who wants him to do something. Presiding over the blitzkrieg on his equilibrium is the baleful figure of his sister Connie, with whom he shares the house; at her shoulder is Clarence's brainless younger son Freddie and a panoply of friends, enemies, servants, spongers, private detectives, bookies and confidence tricksters.
| Original Air Dates: | — |
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| Country: | UK |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Network: | BBC One |
| Watched by: | 767 1 007 573 |
| Total running time: | 6 hours 30 minutes |
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| Episodes: | 13 |
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It was shot and edited with high quality, the picture is good, the casting is not bad, but they are playing... They probably play the way the director said, overdoing it quite noticeably. That's why I had questions when I was watching it. Why was it necessary to exaggerate Woodhouse's antics? Like it's funnier this way? Why turn a caustic and pungent, but seasoned and realistic caricature into a deliberate caricature, into ridiculous fake clowning? Isn't Woodhouse funny enough? Or is it too abstruse? I don't understand. And I don't approve. In general, the impressions were blurred. Although, of course, I laughed a lot. And a noble piggy.
And Freddy didn't crash into a tree. What's the deal?
"I think it won't be a surprise to anyone that I'm retiring to my room. Clarence, say one more word and you have no idea where I'm going to put your hard-boiled eggs!" :D