For the past few weeks, we’ve felt as though the BBC has done a very good job when it comes to capturing the spirit of Leo Tolstoy’s classic “War and Peace.” On Sunday, for the first time we feel like the show did something different. It transcended the source material and became something fantastic in […]
For those of you who are wondering whether or not “War and Peace” has focused too much on the peace aspect of things and not enough on the war, rest assured that this is going to change as we move into something a little more violent and political as we get into the final two […]
We are now halfway through the BBC’s adaptation of “War and Peace,” and you have to believe that as we progress now things are going to get even more complicated, tragic, and at times brutal. The Tolstoy novel was certainly epic, but nowhere in it did it dictate that there would be a happy ending […]
Everyone expected that “Call the Midwife” would likely premiere to strong numbers on BBC One Sunday night, but the question was simply just how strong we were really talking about. In the end, it’s mostly good news for the network. The Helen George series drew almost 8 million viewers for the season 5 premiere, which is a […]
Sunday night brought us the third episode of “War and Peace” on the BBC, otherwise known as the episode that brought to us some of the most powerful moments from the classic adaptation. In the end, we feel like this is a series that brought quite a bit of fascinating stuff to the table here […]
At the time of this article being written, we have reached the halfway point of BBC One’s epic “War and Peace,” giving us only three more episodes that will (likely) cover the remainder of the Leo Tolstoy epic. Time will past, relationships will be tested, and by the time we reach the end of the […]
The third episode of “War and Peace” is premiering on BBC One Sunday night, and there will be quite a bit of ground to cover. For one, there is an upcoming duel coming between Pierre and a particular opponent in Dolokhov, and the sneak peek below focuses to a certain extent on not just some swordfight […]
While we’re not sure that we will be providing ratings updates for “War and Peace” on the BBC for the entirety of its six-episode run, we are always curious to see how a show carries over some viewers from the first episode to the next. Therefore, there was some exciting territory to cover in this […]
We always knew that Paul Dano was a great actor, but it is rather nice to see such a different dimension to him in the upcoming BBC adaptation of “War and Peace.” Pierre is a complicated man, and he’s also someone who had quite a few transgressions on Sunday’s second episode. For one, he has […]
Just in case you did not find the first two episodes of BBC One’s “War and Peace” action-packed (we say this in many ways sarcastically, given that from this vantage point they certainly were and then some), that is going to be amplified to yet another level when the next new episode airs in seven […]
