Overview
In his first drama for ITV since Jeeves and Wooster in the 90s, Stephen Fry plays a delightful village solicitor in Norfolk, in a picturesque setting and living a wonderful listed house while driving an Alvis. Surrounded by eccentrics including a nymphomaniac sister just out of rehab played by Hermione Norris (Spooks), a dotty aunt in a home (Phyllida Law) and a bizarre collection of local clients. To top it all, his brother is missing, presumed dead, when his clothes turn up on the beach.
| Original Air Dates: | — |
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| Country: | UK |
| Genre: | Comedy, Drama |
| Network: | ITV |
| Watched by: | 2 283 1 008 527 |
| Total running time: | 13 hours 30 minutes |
| Episode duration: | |
| Episodes: | 18 |
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The series features one main character, Peter Kingdom, a conscientious and extremely obliging lawyer, a jack-of-all-trades lawyer who cannot do only two things: refuse to help a neighbor and discipline the careless employees of his office. Residents of the entire town take advantage of his noble responsiveness and reliability and, without hesitation, burden him with their troubles and troubles, while often hiding some details. And although these other people's troubles are far from direct legal duties, Peter honestly helps everyone, despite the fact that he has his own, quite serious family problems, which, however, pass into the background and serve only as a hidden intrigue linking rather independent episodes.
It was well shot, the stories were interesting, there was a lot of irony, the picture was pleasant, sunny, the views were postcard-like, the town was a bit toy-like. They play well, Stephen Fry shines both by himself and with his ties, and the other characters are very lively and cute. Most of the cases, for all their personal significance and urgency, are quite comical, also some kind of toy, cute and trifling, it's enviable. Overall, I have a very favorable and positive impression.
Language. They say it's generally understandable, especially with subtitles. I didn't notice any heavy slang or an indecipherable regional accent.