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  • BBC-1
  • Feb 20, 2011
  • BBC-1
  • Feb 20, 2011

Summary The First World War is over, so Sarah Burton is returning to her home in Yorkshire after helping with the war effort in London. A modern woman, her views are foreign to those of her friends. But her passion and ambition put off men, particularly that of Robert Carne, a handsome farmer who she loves to hate. This three-parter stars ...

  • BBC-1
  • Feb 20, 2011
  • BBC-1
  • Feb 20, 2011
South Riding
Season 1
Season Premiere: Feb 20, 2011
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
62
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Summary The First World War is over, so Sarah Burton is returning to her home in Yorkshire after helping with the war effort in London. A modern woman, her views are foreign to those of her friends. But her passion and ambition put off men, particularly that of Robert Carne, a handsome farmer who she loves to hate. This three-parter stars ...

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80
May 2, 2011
South Riding creates memorable characters, particularly Burton and Carne, and it's beautifully filmed.
By David Hinckley FULL REVIEW
80
May 2, 2011
South Riding has everything you could want from a Masterpiece event: perfect period details, a forlornly gray surf, a swelling soundtrack, disputes over crunchy-gravel real estate, whistling trains and black-tie dinners in hotels, a believable and compelling story involving multiple characters and plots and a faithfulness to its original material that allows for a textured, even sorrowful, bleakness.
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80
Apr 29, 2011
These are, in short, characters with a long literary-and Hollywood-pedigree. Which makes all the more impressive the vividness and mystery they bring to this series (adapted by Andrew Davies from a 1936 novel by Winifred Holtby)--thanks, needless to say, to extraordinarily seductive performances.
By Dorothy Rabinowitz FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 29, 2011
Mr. Davies appears to have struggled with the material...But his dialogue is as sharp as ever, and there are excellent scenes between Sarah and Mrs. Beddows (Penelope Wilton), her champion on the school board, and Sarah and Robert (David Morrissey), the conservative landowner she wins to her side (in more ways than one).
By Mike Hale FULL REVIEW
60
May 2, 2011
For fans of the canon, South Riding is "Masterpiece" comfort food, enjoyable enough in the moment, but melting away to nothing but sugar and fat by morning.
By Mary McNamara FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 28, 2011
As is, South Riding (named for its fictional community in Yorkshire) is a handsome production, but not an especially memorable one--conjuring only a few moments worthy of the "Masterpiece" pedigree before riding into the sunset.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
25
Apr 26, 2011
If only Holtby and screenwriter Andrew Davies hadn't larded the story with so many cliches, not to mention people who seem like second-rate versions of characters created by Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte.
By David Wiegand FULL REVIEW

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