But it is available via the streaming providers below. Fresh new look, redesigned programme hub, richer content…. Back to Main menu What to watch Film news. Parade's End. Edwardian period drama starring Rebecca Hall and Benedict Cumberbatch. Episode 2: Parade's End Summary A public reunion appears to draw a line under Christopher and Sylvia's relationship troubles - but behind closed doors, their marriage remains on unsteady ground. Valentine's continued presence does not make matters any easier, as Christopher struggles to uphold his vows and resist his attraction to her.
However, as their domestic dramas continue, a far greater threat looms in the outside world as war seems increasingly likely. Google Play. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on pinterest. Share on reddit. Email to a friend. Episode 5. Episode 4. Episode 3. Episode 2. Summary A public reunion appears to draw a line under Christopher and Sylvia's relationship troubles - but behind closed doors, their marriage remains on unsteady ground. Episode 1. Powered By. How to watch Next showing There are no live broadcasts scheduled for this show.
How to get married on the set of your favourite TV shows and movies It's time to say "I do" to these impressive TV-themed wedding venues Action Drama Romance War. Did you know Edit. Trivia Benedict Cumberbatch claimed that his character of Christopher Tietjen was one of the more admirable he has ever played. He claimed "[Christopher] has many admirable qualities I'd like to siphon off into my life.
User reviews 43 Review. Top review. Tom Stoppard adaptation of Ford Maddox Ford novel. Christopher is an honorable man and extremely repressed, it seems - he won't sleep with the woman he loves Adelaide Clemens because he's married, but then he's not sleeping with his wife, who has been unfaithful to him and may or may not have given birth to their son. Tietjens eventually joins the war office rather than staying in safety because he considers it more honest than what he's being asked to do at his job as a government statistician.
I didn't read the book -- according to the reviews, the role of Sylvia is not supposed to be sympathetic, and Rebecca Hall has been criticized for this. I would submit it's not her fault, it's the director's - I'm sure she could have acted the role any way she was requested to do it.
The director cast young Adelaide Clemens as Tietjens' would-be mistress, though their relationship isn't consummated before or during the war. I have to agree with reviews, for a suffragette, she's pretty vapid. Originally HBO did not want him in this series because they didn't know who he was; by the time the series was ready to be filmed, they said it had to be with Benedict or they wouldn't do it! Cumberbatch gained weight for the role to make himself look a little bigger, though by no means bulky, and he wore inserts in his face to kill those incredibly high cheekbones.
Defiantly highbrow, with luxuriant production values spilling from its starched fly collars, this is a drama that has class stamped right through it.
In more ways that one. And it's threatening to have much the same effect on me. With a plot focusing on an Anglican Tory civil servant, who is a leading figure in the Department of Imperial Statistics, it perhaps doesn't sound like the most compelling of stories. But Cumberbatch's portrayal of Tietjens fighting a one-man battle with the evils of modernity as he perceives them — permissiveness, dishonesty and errors in the Encyclopedia Britannica, which he enjoys correcting over breakfast — has made Friday nights into even more of a longed-for destination.
Cumberbatch manages to be both awkward and self-assured, vulnerable and yet totally oblivious to the world around him in a way that seems not only striking but also convincing an important attribute, given the fact that some of his character's behaviour belongs to not just another age but another planet.
Through the curl of his rubbery-looking mouth, Cumberbatch communicates Tietjens' decision to apparently not only defy the modern world but act as though it doesn't exist and never will. There is smugness as well as virtue to Tietjens, but even early in the series he reveals an awareness that he is the last of his generation or parade to be like this.
Hall's performance is equally remarkable for the way she elicits sympathy as Sylvia, even as the character remains despicably self-serving. Sylvia genuinely loves Tietjens, after all, and remains chaste despite flirtatious efforts to provoke her husband's jealousy. Sylvia is a mass of contradictions, and with the help of Stoppard's exquisite dialogue, Hall wrangles those contradictions into an emotionally complex, fully dimensional performance, portraying Sylvia as simultaneously devious, selfish, amoral, wounded, vulnerable, and victimized by forces beyond her control.
In stark contrast, Clemens fully embodies Valentine as a young, hopeful idealist who endearingly clings to notions of pure romantic love, even as those notions are challenged by the harsh reality of war and messy human behavior. She's a beacon of light in Tietjens' emotional darkness, representing the only future that Tietjens can bear to live in. With her cute blonde bob and beaming smile, Clemens radiates that light from within.
It's easy to miss details amidst the density of Stoppard's dialogue for example, listen closely for the explanation of Reverend Duchemin's fate , and some characters feel sketchy compared to the fully developed leads. And while White's direction achieves a rare degree of elegance on locations in England, Belgium and France, she's still making TV on a budget, relying for example on too many shots of spinning train wheels as visual shorthand for travel.
They reminded me of John Huston's humorously repetitive shots of airliners — pointing screen-left when westbound, screen-right when eastbound -- as a cross-country sight gag in " Prizzi's Honor. I'm nitpicking, of course. Given such a wealth of literary adaptation, upscale direction and award-worthy performances, who's complaining?
Rated Unrated.
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