The Barchester Chronicles

So far, everything is according to the book. The old people and their trustee lived in an idyll, and then because of the innovator, the doctor, everyone quarreled and became unhappy. I really like Barbara Flynn, who plays the doctor's sister here.

Alan Rickman is very nasty and slippery here. It's very expensive to look at. I just want to slap it with a frying pan. It's kind of completely random. By accident. ;-)

When you're rich (even if you're not an innocent widow with offspring), you have so many fans at once.

The Comte de Courcy couple were joined here with the Thorns, apparently to facilitate the plot. They made jewelry. Although I liked the idea of the greatness of the three queens (de Courcy - secular, noble power, the bishop - spiritual power, Signora Neroni - the queen of men's hearts).

As for Mr. Slop, who is worthily represented by Alan Rickman, whose last name can be loosely translated as "bowing, bowing", then, despite his enormous ambitions and unsurpassed resourcefulness, cunning and ability to plot, it remains only to conclude that he was let down by a lack of intelligence. In many aspects. But the main thing was that he failed to determine in time who needed to bow to. He had foolishly determined what the bishop needed and what his wife needed. And then everything would have worked out for him.
The bishop's wife is the most intelligent woman who undoubtedly led her husband to success, although his merits, such as the ability to behave like a comfortable person, cannot be belittled. She never questioned her husband's authority in public. Even in front of unworthy people, let's remember how she left at her husband's behest, even when only slug Slop was a witness. She is strictly vindictive towards her subordinates (and knows how not to explode, but to wait for this opportunity: "you told me to leave, and I left, but I came back") and knows how to please who needs to be. It is such wives who are the guarantor of their husband's success, despite the fact that few people find pleasure in them (to put it mildly). And it should be remembered that the husband, always in any dispute, eventually chooses the side of such a spouse, and Slop was not smart enough for that. To our great pleasure and to his misfortune.

And the bishop's wife, an aunt with iron balls, showed who was the boss in the house.