Comments | tempestsarekind: and while I'm here, Little Dorrit part 3

tempestsarekind

and while I'm here, Little Dorrit part 3

Apr 13, 2009 18:27

Not much to say about Little Dorrit this week--though I continue to love it, and am disappointed when it ends every week--except that I'd suspected that part of my problem with William Dorrit is that he is more or less King Lear, and this week pretty much confirmed that. And my desire to punch him in the face from last week has now spread to the ( Read more... )

costume drama, king lear, 19th-c stuff, dickens

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stoplookingup April 14 2009, 01:31:15 UTC

How many parts are there, anyway? I'm only halfway through part 2.

tempestsarekind April 14 2009, 15:51:50 UTC

I'm not entirely sure! I think the whole miniseries was done in sixteen half-hour blocks (as with Bleak House), but I'm not sure how many parts PBS has decided to break the whole thing up into.

(Oh, wait--the Masterpiece website says that it's running through April 26, with five parts. The first one was 120 minutes, the rest 90.)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/schedule/masterpiece_classic_schedule.pdf