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Parade's End Season 1 Episode 1

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AIRED: 8/24/12

Christopher Tietjens, out of an old-fashioned sense of duty, enters upon a disastrous marriage with the selfish and exploitative Sylvia in pre-World War One England.

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Is a good man in a bad world always doomed?

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By orswel, Sep 13, 2012

This is a star-laden, lavishly-produced adaptation - by Sir Tom Stoppard, no less - of the Tietjens novels of Ford Madox Ford, which were also the basis of a trio of TV plays put out on BBC-2 in the mid-60s. Sir Tom has taken a few liberties with the books in order to squeeze them into five one-hour episodes, and this first episode doesn't quite work. Things are rushed through, relationships aren't properly established, eccentricities are emphasized over character. The notion of Christopher Tietjens as a man whose elaborate code of honour must bring him pain and continuous suffering is established clearly, yet Benedict Cumberbatch, playing him, seems excessively puritanical and aloof - this Tietjens is a hard man for whom to have the requisite sympathy. Rebecca Hall enjoys herself as his monstrous wife, but Stephen Graham's Scots accent seems very strange. Adelaide Clemens, a newcomer in a starry cast, acquits herself very well as the suffragette Valentine.moreless
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Benedict Cumberbatch	Christopher Tietjens
Rebecca Hall	Sylvia Tietjens

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Adelaide Clemens	Valentine Wannop	Recurring Role
Rupert Everett	Mark Tietjens	Recurring Role
Miranda Richardson	Mrs. Wannop	Recurring Role

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- Original International Airdates:
  Czech Republic: January 7, 2013 on HBO
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- The BBC had already dramatized the first three of the four Tietjens novels by Ford Madox Ford as three separate plays in the "Theatre 625" series; they were aired on BBC-2 over three consecutive weeks at the end of 1964.
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