Poldark Season 3

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This entire series is truly a high-class production and every single person involved in bringing this epic series to the screen is to be commended. But I think three people really provide excellence in leadership to this endeavor. First Debbie Horsefield’s screen adaption of the novels faithfully captures the richness of the characters as they live and love through their era in history. It all begins with a superior writer. And Eleanor Tomlinson artfully portrays Demelza over an almost unimaginable range of life experiences bringing a beloved literary character to life — “imperfect, human, real.” But it is Aidan Turner I think who really brings this production to its level of perfection. I have never seen an actor so thoroughly understand the breadth of the character he’s portraying and so superbly project it on screen with such outstanding talent. Our lives are complex multifaceted journeys. Ross Poldark’s life is no different and Aidan Turner is masterfully letting Ross’s life’s journey unfold before our very eyes. His sensitivity to Ross — His empathy with Ross — is absolutely amazing and awe-inspiring.

– DOGLOS

Please note PBS identifies this Amazon episode two as part of the PBS episode one . The PBS episode one is actually 90 minutes long and includes the Amazon episode one & two. So if you’ve watched episode 1 on pbs don’t order this because you’ve already watched it!

– Adeline

Enjoy Jane Austen and miss Downton Abbey? BBC One’s “Poldark”, set in 18th century Cornwall and based on the series of books by Winston Graham, will surely scratch that itch. Ross Poldark (Aidan Turner) is a British Army officer – short on temper, high on loyalty, known to thresh corn sans a shirt – who returns from the American Revolutionary War to find that his fiancée Elizabeth Chynoweth (Heidi Reed) is now engaged to his cousin.

To restore his family’s dwindling fortune he opens one of his family’s tin mines and eventually marries the spirited Demelza Carne (Eleanor Tomlinson), though his attempts to lead a peaceful life are constantly thwarted by his own vices and the ongoing feud with business rival George Warleggan (Jack Farthing).

Such was the plot of the first two seasons. The third branches into new territory whilst still carrying on the fundamental components of the show: Ross and Demelza’s tempestuous marriage, the increasingly bitter hostilities between the Poldark and Warleggan households, and the question of Elizabeth’s newborn son Valentine Warleggan’s paternity, he having born suspiciously early several months after Ross stormed into Elizabeth’s bedroom in the dead of night.

Though Ross has grown weary of the feud between himself and the Warleggans, by this stage George is practically obsessed with Ross, convinced that every move he makes is designed to mock and frustrate him. But by now Ross has bigger concerns: the reputations that are at stake should the truth of his night with Elizabeth come out, and the fact that his dear friend Doctor Dwight Enys has been captured by the French.

More trouble emerges when Elizabeth’s cousin Morwenna and Demelza’s brother Drake fall in love – neither family is keen on the match, but George is prepared to go to particularly cruel lengths to ensure that the gentle Morwenna becomes an asset to his own social-climbing. And the lovely Demelza is faced with a choice of her own when she becomes an object of devotion for the puppy-eyed Colonel Armitage.

The third season of the show is probably the best so far, with Ross reaching an epiphany about the kind of man he wants to be, and plenty of intrigue to mull over along the way, whether it’s derived from the grandeur of government buildings or the destitution of the mining communities.

As always, the scenery and costumes are beautiful to look at, and the supporting cast wonderful. Of particular note are Harry Marcus’s chipper young Geoffrey Charles Poldark and Caroline Blakiston’s acid-tongued Aunt Agatha, staunch allies in their mission to needle George. There’s even brief reappearances from Ruby Bentall’s Verity and John Nettles’s Ray Penvenen.

“Poldark” is a perfect mix of soap opera and period drama: high production values, talented cast and enough attention paid to historical detail that you don’t feel too guilty for enjoying it so much.

– R. M. Fisher

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Actors: Aidan Turner, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ruby Bentall, Caroline Blakiston, Christian Brassington
Directors: Joss Agnew, Stephen Woolfenden
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 3
Rated: PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned
Studio: PBS Distribution
DVD Release Date: November 7, 2017
Run Time: 540 minutes
ASIN: B074QVZCZZ