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Top review. Classy, entertaining and with heart. I read somewhere that Any Human Heart had poor viewing figures. If so, that's quite sad, because this series was excellent. Ridiculous sometimes yes, but it was also a classy and entertaining series and I actually think it did have heart. The book is a beautifully written and compelling one. And I think this series does a respectable job adapting it. Is it as good? Probably not, but the characters are faithful and great to watch and the story is told in an adept way.
The script is often funny, touching, edgy, heart-warming and especially in the final episode reflective. That's not all. The production values are exquisite. The scenery is beautiful, the photography stunning and the costumes ravishing. Sometimes I get correspondence from readers. Thank you, I try to reply. You say things such as I can't write English properly; or that I'm wrong about something, or everything. I apologise.
Sometimes — quite a lot recently — you say there's too much music on TV programmes. That really isn't my fault, but I do agree. A syrupy orchestral score has been poured all over it, filling every gap, smoothing it all over — sonic Polyfilla.
A few gaps would have been a relief. As Jill says, what's wrong with silence? It can be a powerful thing, but I think we've become frightened of it; certainly television has. The trouble is, once the music gets to you, it's hard not to become obsessed and angered by it. It really can be intrusive. Perhaps the answer is to watch with subtitles and the sound turned down. That's about it for moans because, apart from that, William Boyd 's adaptation of his own novel is an absolute treat — a witty, touching, intimate romp through one man's life, and through a big chunk of the 20th century, directed with panache, and with fine performances wherever you look.
I was initially a little thrown by the transition from Logan Mountstuart No 2 a little boy fishing in the Uruguayan river to Logan Mountstuart No 3. From actors Sam Claflin to Matthew Macfadyen, in other words. There didn't seem to be a big enough leap in time to warrant a new actor. But not only do you get used to it in about seven seconds, it actually fits in perfectly with one of the big themes: that we change; our lives are like anthologies of short stories.
I'm very much looking forward to properly meeting him — No 4 played by Jim Broadbent - No 1 is a baby — over the next three Sundays. And finding out how this talented but dreamy and frustrated young writer ends up as a lonely and unhealthy old man rattling around in a house in France surrounded by bundles of the past.
It makes you think about all sorts of stuff — friendship and love, change, ageing, yourself. And there's lot of Big Stuff to look forward to as well: the Spanish civil war; Edward and Wallis Simpson already bumped into on the golf course and hardly recognisable as Tom Hollander and Gillian Anderson — Rev and Agent Scully ; the second world war. I can't wait. In fact, I really can't — I've ordered the book online.
Boyd has sold me his own novel. And the good thing about books is that they're silent. The other two highlights of the weekend were both documentaries about America.
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