Brideshead Revisited - Episode 11 - PART 10

[@AJTramberg]

I could never have imagined the parallel connection I would make from seeing this ending as a 10 year old with my parents, with no understanding or context, to a 52 year old who has since experienced the challenge of moving on into new seasons of life after loss and closure. Its the most bittersweet, and sobering thing I've every seen.

[@boomerreb4997]

Some of the best television ever. Perfect cast, and almost certainly would make Waugh proud.

[@nevada531]

Dear D0nalF0ley, Over the past 30 years I have watched this production in it's entirety at least 6 times. It introduced me to Evelyn Waugh and his writings. In 1981 I was a gay, fallen away Catholic of 25 and was embarking on a 6 month tour of Europe from America. When I arrived in Venice, looking out on the Grand Canal and the Piazza San Marco, all I could think of was Charles and Sebastian. Today I am middle aged, childless, and loveless but I still think of them with pleasure. Thank you

[@illuminant1129]

The conclusion of one of the greatest pieces of Television ever set down. The whole thing - from first to last - was enthralling. Its resonance and beauty, far transcends the diet of banality that we otherwise receive. Both Waugh's novel and this adaptation, describe worlds far removed from most of us and yet the depths of emotion and understanding, are there to be found within all of us, still. It is like the animation of a Renaissance masterpiece.

[@polemeros]

Geoffrey Burgon's music is so perfectly expressive of the story. A masterpiece of alchemy, transforming tragedy, loss, flaw and pain into beauty.

[@bernardguynunns5658]

Without any doubt in my mind this is the greatest work ever produced for television and better than any cinematic experience I have ever had. Laurence Olivier so stunningly portrays the dying patriarch it takes my breath away. Every other actor is perfectly cast. And the script and theme are incomparable...

[@bodsnvimto]

This is in my opinion the best series ever shown on telly but I have never understood the significance of the ending. Waugh was a convert to Catholicism but he clearly explained its faults throughout. Please could someone explain what made both Charles and the author think differently after so much negativity.

[@bernardguynunns5658]

@@bodsnvimto Hillaire Belloc once said something to the effect that God must be in the Catholic Church because it couldn't have existed through all its many crises and scandals without Him. Fast forward to now, nothing has changed but God is still with us.

[@1seansouth]

@@bodsnvimto In the ending, Charles sees that catholicism was great history, that connected up the house to so much history around the world. whether there is a god or not, there is great beauty, mystery, love and pain wrapped up in it, that unites soldiers, and ordinary people. He found solace in it, and Charles understands for the first time why it meant so much to Julia, and to her father.

[@alicedetocqueville5029]

@@1seansouth For whatever reason, after 8 years of Catholic school, including going to Mass every day but Saturday, and loving the liturgy - tho l'm a girl l could say the whole Mass myself - l found, in my senior year, while at Mass, praying my hardest for faith, that l had the clearest conviction that it is all a fairy tale. A bedtime story. That conviction has never wavered in the slightest. You don't need 'God' in order to love. You don't him for anything. The idea of religion just cheapens our human life, and it's absurd.

[@1seansouth]

@@alicedetocqueville5029 Hi Alice, I'm just giving an opinion on the meaning of the ending.

[@D0nalF0ley]

Wow. Thanks for all the lovely comments. Glad to see so many people getting so much pleasure from this masterpiece, whether it's rediscovering and reliving old memories and nostalgia or the delights of discovering it for the very first time.

[@heyyou9839]

Used to see the credits on the tv screen as a child - finally watched it thank you

[@harmoniabalanza]

The remark about Charles looking remarkably cheerful: yes, that's what the life of the soul and a sense of historical spiritual continuity do, light us inside, and bring cheer out of gloom...God's work.

[@verdana7]

watching this i have grown quite attached to all characters, unforgettable movie .. thank you for uploading

[@1seansouth]

thank you so much for posting. so gripping. I remember when I moved to the US and had to go to dentist for eztractions. they gave me american painkillers and it was snowing. I lay on the sofa all day watching a PBS marathon of Brideshead, it was one of my happiest memories of america.

[@erpollock]

A great work of art, both on film and in literature. Beautifully acted and portrayed.

[@policemanaaron]

I first watched this with my mother when I was a child. I didn't fully appreciate what I was watching at the time, but, I have never forgotten Sebastian and I shall always remember my mother's love for this wonderful production. Thank you for giving me a chance to watch this again.

[@elizabethbyrne8734]

The age of Hooper - a tragedy in itself, spoken in four simple words...Waugh was truly a literary genius.

[@alanpatey7833]

Of that there is no doubt. Both 'Scoop' and 'Black Mischief' also.

[@alanpatey7833]

@wownouser Waugh uses this surname in relation to uneducated working class people.

[@oldjt]

Lower middle class really. But it’s not just class - it’s the complete lack of aestheticism and romance.

[@ericleon6104]

This TV series is a true masterpiece of British TV making. Every actor, the script, the haunting music, the filming : its all wonderful. Starting with the novel itself of course. I left the UK in 1987. I wonder if they can still produce this kind of thing nowadays... I remember watching it mesmerised as a 16 year-old in 1981, but I did not understand the ending. Why Julia turn away from the man she loves... Watching it all over again on youtube 32 years later : I think I do now.

[@torrasco]

Dear D0nalF0ley, thank you so much for taking the time and care to upload this magnificent series. I remember first seeing it as a young boy, sneaking out of my room after my bedtime, hiding in a corner of the living room where I could see the TV but my father couldn't see me. Years later he told me he new I was there all along, but never let on as he was proud that I should want to break my bedtime for the sake of watching such beautiful art. Thank you also for bringing back that memory.

[@barbararussell9757]

There are no words for how much I love this novel; Jeremy Irons was exactly the right choice to play Charles Ryder.

[@girlisgone]

Thanks SO much for taking the time to upload. This was one of the first PBS series I watched. I was 10 years old when it originally came on television. It began a lifelong love for me for all things British......I even married an Englishman!! Thanks again. Has been a joy.

[@mphrdldn]

Anne of Green Gables I met an Englishman 2 years after this series aired on PBS. We got married, too!

[@R_Jackson]

40 years, but still beautiful and unsurpassed.

[@ChandiniDavid]

When I started watching this, I never thought it would end so sad. I don't generally like unhappy endings, but I rather liked this one. But, I wish they had somehow saved Sebastian - watching him degrade was the saddest part of the series. I loved watching him and Charles interact - their friendship was so beautifully portrayed.

[@heyyou9839]

They did - Cordelia’s description of his life was quite ok

[@timirish2563]

Sebastian's fate in the novel was far less unpleasant than in this drama. He essentially reformed, though he was still an exile from Brideshead (for his past wickedness, I suppose). The dramatization was more black and white than Waugh's book, which dealt heavily in shades of grey.

[@marklynch5149]

The beauty of the English language embodied in film - divine!

[@rasmusdoramas188]

Such a great series. One of my all time favourites

[@xsoireg]

Thank you for the memories.

[@sueofnine]

Thank you so much from me too. I watched this series when it was first broadcast and loved it and it's been absolutely wonderful to see it again.

[@JamesBarrett23]

Brilliant. Costumes, sets, dialogue, characters, events. Just brilliant.

[@Speershake]

This has been a wonderful experience, thanks so much DOnalFOley, for doing this. I really liked watching this in the brief 9 or so minute parts. I got the sense that Charles was able to let go of the burden of the past in this final episode; there was a good closure here.

[@dutchcountryman1290]

The television medium used to its full potential for the first and last time.

[@russellford5597]

Thank you for your great efforts to provide this series. You have provided a wonderful opportunity for many to enjoy this work.

[@TimeandMonotony]

Thank you so much for taking the time to upload this! I've been meaning to watch it for ages, and it's thanks to you that I finally did. :) Excellent miniseries. I have to say I preferred the earlier episodes with Sebastian, but the whole thing is great.

[@098anne]

Many many thanks! I've seen this several times over the years starting in '81.... I've never fallen out of love with it and it is better each time. Thank you thank you thank you!

[@mirandoalsolcadadia]

thanks...I saw it 25 years ago...and here am I still crying

[@marklynch5149]

2:55 to finish at 7:42 - the coolest most moving thing I've ever seen. There's always hope....look to the future.

[@qantasCapt]

A million thanks for this most unexpected 'find'! I last watched this on TV in 1981 and enjoyed it enormously then. Almost 30 years later, I've spent all my waking hours over the last few days riveted to my own 'revisitation' of Bridesghead Revisited. Thankyou so, so, much for this wonderful post! British TV at it's absolute best - fabulous production!

[@11LadyGrinningSoul11]

Many thanks for taking the time to upload this excellent series, D0nalF0ley.

[@NoahRobertGraves]

*Bravo!!!* Well done, Evelyn! God rest you!

[@weltonreds]

A telematic tour de force without parallel or equal. A quintessential English experience never to be repeated. Bravo!!!!

[@julianc007]

A pure masterpiece!

[@stevenhotho4094]

yes, the flame burns anew.

[@YuriMapitomsky]

Thank you very much for a lucky opportunity to see this masterpiece.

[@NZTapper]

This is so much better than the more recent movie. Thankyou so much for sharing. Brilliant.

[@caroljm36]

Read the book...from what I've seen, the series is practically word-for-word.

[@harmoniabalanza]

a refreshing change.

[@paixx12]

This is sublime. Speaking as a Catholic, I gather the last scene might be incomprehensible perhaps to those not endowed with the gift of faith for whom the last scene, laden with deep meaning and significance, would appear merely pretty, British, quaint, or even boring.

[@russellford5597]

Faith is not a gift. It is mere self indulgent hope born out of fear and indoctrination. If there was a god so powerful 'it' would surely not waste time with requiring human beings to teach of 'its' existence. 'It' would surely make its presence obvious within the very beings that 'it' created. Why all the silly games if worshipping 'it' is so important? I use the term 'it' because to say 'he' highlights just how man-made the whole notion of god is.

[@EccentricaGallumbits]

+paixx12 Try horrific.

[@paixx12]

Sorry RFord, but for those endowed with the eyes of faith, your words merely show that you have placed yourself in place of God. Try personalist humanism, originating from the Age of Enlightenment, to be the underlying thinking behind your words.

[@averitas]

You watched till the end and that's what you got out of it?

[@brendan9663]

@@paixx12 Russell your clearly a clever guy. So I'd ask you, if God existed, made himself explicit, and turned faith into fact, to the point that you know without doubt that one act leads to unbearable pain, and another leads to eternal peace; would you feel any temptation sin? Would your good deeds without that temptation mean anything ? Would life mean anything? Be grateful that the mystery remains intact, it's the heart of grace.

[@noemiangeles481]

Thank you for uploading this masterpiece. I've watched it several times and it's amazing every time.

[@ludmic]

Thanks for posting. First time I've watched this though I do remeber it being shown in 1982. Very moving throughout.

[@squeakysoul]

Beautiful series. Thank you very much for putting it up.

[@Bnesque]

Thanks you so much for taking enoumous of yours and sharing this with us.This is another brilliant "recherche du temps perdu", and this jouney meant a lot to me.

[@tyrone21c]

I saw this when it originally aired. I am shocked to see that it was 1981!!!! OMG I can't believe its been that long ago. I had taped the entire thing on VHS from my PBS station long ago and loaned the tapes some years ago. I never got them back. So I had not seen this in YEARS. I used to play those final scenes from when Charles and Julia break up to the end.. Yeah I know, very sentimental but great show and one of the very best things ever on TV. Thanks for posting this.

[@maruka2123]

Thank you so much for posting this, it was a superb series, delightful to watch, even though quite sad. But beautifully put together, and with a terrific cast

[@globalman]

Thank you very much for an heroic effort and sharing this with a mostly grateful audience. Given the difficulties and limitations of KZbin you did this to perfection. Cheers

[@martyjames6204]

Many thanks for uploading - i remember being intrigued by this series in the 80's... great to watch it again.

[@sahajad]

Thank you for uploading the entire series . It is because of the generosity of people like you that we get to watch all the episodes of Tv series which we miss on TV. Now that I have watched both the Brideshead Movie and the TV series , I consider my self and authority on this story. But I am sad as to how Sebastian's life ended !

[@ShannonWinston73]

Thank you so very much for uploading such a wonderful series. It's a delight!

[@tstp]

Thanks, DOnelFOley. It was a fabulous trip! Will probably watch it all again sometime soon.

[@vickimilca]

I enjoyed this so much - I had never seen all the parts before - so well done. Thanks for making it available for others to enjoy.

[@Aco747lyte]

Thank you Dona Foley for sharing this. :)

[@spritelybird]

You're very welcome. Thank you very much. I watched this like 30 years ago. I was 12 and didn't like kiddie stuff much. It was great and I fell in love with the characters, esp how the boys were early on. So charming and adorable.

[@robertklimt]

Thanks for posting.

[@mmedefarge]

Thanks so much for uploading this, no easy job, I'm sure. It was a beautiful, languid trip into a rarefied world.

[@paulvandijck6476]

Life is a mystery, without or with religion. No science will ever be able to fully understand this mystery. It can only scratch the surface of it.

[@richard222ize]

Thank you so much for this - really enjoyed!

[@djoseph5072]

Good morning Ryder. You're looking remarkably cheerful today.

[@tomwheeler2012]

I think I now understand the reference to the builders and the tragedians. Ryder is saying that the light was prior generations lit the candle, the burning flame and the light acting as a guide thru the darkness then...their lives ended and the candle allowed to burn out, then another tragedy comes and again the flame is relit and so on until the candle is lit for the Flyte family of Marchmain and again extinguished as their stories ended and then Charles witnesses the circle of life...the candle has now been relit for the soldiers going off to war or returning back from war.

[@healos]

D0nalF0ley, thank you very much. I thoroughly enjoyed that.

[@paulineshone6069]

The main character,supposedly an artist, was devoid of passion and expression, a passive observer of other people's more vibrant lives, without them he was a nonentity.

[@roseoilwaxes5787]

We are all nonentities until we learn how to live with passion

[@user-lx6bl2wd8g]

Wonderful! Thanks so much.

[@julianc007]

You're right, this IS a masterpiece. There has never been anything like it, and there never will!

[@marklynch5149]

Life just keeps rolling on - I think thats the message being given.

[@allcatz]

Like others I would like to thank you for putting this up--revisiting Brideshead Revisited...I recently re-read the book and am currently listening to an audio book version beautifully read by Jeremy Irons; obviously a great favorite of mine.

[@RepCom1140]

Thank you sir for posting this. After reading the book, this brings it to life marvelously. I only wish the Waugh's trilogy of Guy Crouchback could have been also made into a series. It is a lighter work, but still a delightful read. Imagine old Jumbo Trotter making his appearance on screen.

[@edwardmurphy8657]

To quote the rest, thankyou so very much...

[@D0nalF0ley]

@jsmithers87 You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed watching it ;) It's an amazing piece of work!

[@jhassett2]

Many thanks.If the book is a rememberance of times past,then the series itself also recalls a bygone era when British independent television producers did not have to go slumming to attain a big international success.Sadly, this was pretty much the last of it's kind.

[@damianop100]

I watched Brideshead Revisited when it first aired in the USA as a Catholic seminarian taking an English literature class from a priest who was a closeted homosexual, as I was. Charles was unable to love Sebastian the way Sebastian needed, he couldn't resist the allure of Sebastian's wealthy, intricate, guilt-ridden family. As Charles stepped closer to the family, Sebastian backed away from Charles until finally he regarded Charles as an enemy, co-opted by his horrible family.

[@staudtwerner]

19.09.2017 Happy Birthday Chales Rider / Jeromy Irons

[@sschin7193]

Thank you for your trouble. I enjoyed it despite several missing episodes for copyright reasons.

[@harmoniabalanza]

Strangely, Hooper's laughing at Ryder's self-pity is in a way an encouragement to him--cheer up old man things will change--and at the same time a very young man's inability to grasp the depth of pain in an older man's regrets and sorrow, which could make Charles feel bereft. It can really be taken either way. Or both. That's brilliant work from the director. Charles is only 39 so the violin is overdone. But he did lose a lot, he had a lot to lose. I am so wanting to write a sequel to this, but it would be Danielle Steele not E Waugh, unfortunately....

[@juhajokipii8783]

Maybe it would be something like the end of Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg?

[@D0nalF0ley]

@TheRetro60s You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@janesmith2770]

This is the best series on English television that I have seen which is in large part due to the quality of the action, Waugh's words and John Mortimer's screen play. I missed most of it at university over 30 years ago when it was first broadcast and to see it now after living the entirety of a life and compare how I felt then and now and given my father's love of Waugh and the rest of our family's high Catholicism made so much of it so close to home. So much of what is in the book was in Waugh's life - a sad life - very male and very drugs dependent. Life is happier and better than that for many of us and we are lucky that that be so. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh Anyway many thanks for uploading it. ( I had thought they might have got Sebastian back, the first love and I thought the house was left to the daughter and her lover jointly? It had said nothing about being conditional on marriage.Just like I did (and very rarely in the UK) Waugh obtained a Catholic annulment.)

[@fred_said]

I was in my 20's in 1981, an 11-episdoe TV series was too much for me then. A couple of weeks ago the 2008 film was on BBC2 and I watched it, wasn't impressed, found this instead. I've spent the last couple of days watching this end-to-end and the 2008 film should be caled "Brideshead rewritten", it is so bad in comprison to the TV series (which is faithful to the Waugh original). Well done to Waugh for a fabulous plot, and huge thanks to D0nalF0ley for putting the true version on KZbin !!!

[@YooTuba]

Thanks for making this available. I saw parts of it when it ran on TV originally but never got around to sitting through the whole thing start to finish. It is quite well done and I appreciate that it follows the book even though parts of it dragged a bit - mostly because the character of Charles is so wooden. I really felt that he didn't love Sebastian or even Julia as much as he loved the mansion and the wealthy lifestyle.

[@brentjohnrossiter1795]

As goes the theme "Thanks D0nal", awesome watch. I never watched it 1st time round (too young) and TVNZ replayed it a decade or so ago. But I must have missed the end, cos I dont remember it. Or any episode actually. It's been so great to see it all, cheers. Whenever I hear the title, my brothers nikname for the show comes to mind, "Blackhead Regurgitated". I cant shake it sorry.

[@cosmicwaderer1247]

Amazing!

[@hydfawr]

Many thanks.

he actually says around 1.58 that he has "forfeited the right see his son grow up "

[@jacquelinecallaghan9398]

I wish hat Charles and Julie stayed together and had children from their sincere love. That would be the best thing to happen in my opinion. Regardless of the candle burning anew.

[@staudtwerner]

vanity vanity all is vanity Life explained in just 5 words - Thanks Charles Ryder :)

[@charliewartelle6720]

A wonderful expression of God's eternal love for the ragged soul of the most stubborn non believer.

[@slavonice]

I agree with many--Thank you for giving such pleasure--

[@D0nalF0ley]

@Ashleyblue224 You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed watching it ;)

[@alphaacton]

we struggle so hard to find the light in the darkness, Some sense in the senseless, But yet in the end, there is only nothing, Nothing more or less, but sometimes something, Faith is inside all of us, Love is always part of us.

[@jorgegomez524]

Even if Jeremy Irons would read the groceries list , it would sound like a greek poem

[@blanchjoe1481]

"...the age of Hooper...". Past Hooper, to The Beatles, past The Beatles, to Landing on the Moon, past that to Artificial Intelligence. The age of every man, and no man.

[@D0nalF0ley]

@kcgan2010 You're welcome! It took around a week to split it all up and upload it but was worth it!! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@JinxMinxNYC]

Julia, because of her religious upbringing, thought that she was hopelessly evil and that the only way to absolve herself was to give up what she loved most, i.e. Charles. So both of them were denied a lifetime of family, happiness, and children. But what had she ever done wrong? Married a divorced man, lived out of wedlock with her true love, been impious? Her "crimes" truly had no victims. But making her lonely and alone was truly a crime. Quite an advertisement for religion!

[@peterxp4274]

But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones.

[@MrSunlander]

Thank you, awfully, old chap!

[@D0nalF0ley]

@lizclegg You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mmedefarge]

@lmhitar Yes, they did leave behind many beautiful things but let us not romanticize them. They were able to accumulate as much as they did on the backs of the average person whose labors they undervalued. Evelyn Waugh, the author, was part of the aristocracy & wrote from their myopic perspective.

[@D0nalF0ley]

@Speershake You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@edwardmurphy8657]

If they had, then Brideshead may have been saved from it's destruction...

[@susannevollmer2347]

Very depressing. This family gives up. Only Cordelia is on her way in a good manner.