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Brideshead Revisited (TV Miniseries)

Brideshead Revisited

1981

Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, Laurence Olivier ...

7.9

2,660

TV Series. Drama TV Series (October 1981 - December 1981). Jeremy Irons stars as the impressionable Oxford youth bedazzled by Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews), youngest of the wealthy ill-fated Marchmain family. Irons quickly falls in love with this odd group, but their embrace nearly proves more than he can handle.

	Author	Review
United States	Thomas Vinciguerra The New York Times	"The series’s lush evocation of a bygone era of English high living was infectious (...) 'Brideshead' still stands as the sine qua non of mini-series"	POS
United Kingdom	Stuart Jeffries The Guardian	"I might still find it insufferable, but there is much to admire this 30-year-old TV classic – even if you don't share its nostalgia for a lost England"	NEU
United Kingdom	The Independent	"It is one of those occasions when you would like to taste and smell television (...) It makes you greedy. I would like to watch the whole thing in one disgusting, 12-hour gulp."	POS
United Kingdom	Telegraph	"'Brideshead Revisited' is television’s greatest literary adaptation, bar none. It's utterly faithful to Evelyn Waugh's novel yet it's somehow more than that, too"	POS

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