Brideshead Revisited - Episode 11 - PART 2

[@TimeandMonotony]

Old people have such a macabre sense of humor about death, I love it! Us younger folks don't like to talk or think about it much, but it's a much more pressing topic for older people, and I've found they tend to be much more darkly humorous about it! Partly why I prefer older people to people my own age or younger.

[@lemorab1]

I prefer people my own age and older over younger people. I love this room and that bed! I don't know if this is a set or an actual room at Castle Howard, but I want to spend my last days in the Chinese Drawing Room with the Queen's bed. I wonder which queen? Charlotte?

[@YooTuba]

Laurence's style is perfect for the character - a dying Lord, who's basically a grand old man from another era that's on its way out.

[@curtisloftis6003]

The bed/dinner scene was 100% perfect. L.O presented us with a master class...and made it look effortless.

[@Twentythousandlps]

Olivier was actually around the same age as Marchmain, in his seventies.

[@patdonnelly9392]

'He's dying from a long word...' Wow! I suppose we all do eventually.

[@thelostcreole]

The dying breed...Lord Marchmain IS my favorite character....the dying of the old world Aristocracy never to be seen again. The Patriarch....in the words of St. Aug....I want to be good....but not yet!

[@harmoniabalanza]

The obsession with children and women's ability to have them or not is really ghastly.

[@sonnysweet971]

@lizclegg Quite the contrary I find him very engaging... him and Charles father are my favourites..I know someone in the flesh who speaks like Laurence.

[@TimeandMonotony]

Look at that gleam in Charles' eyes when Marchmain says he might leave Brideshead to him and Julia. Greedy bastard.

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

That's been Charles' agenda all along. He's a high functioning sociopath. The moment he laid eyes on Sebastian, that was the wrecked psyche he intended to exploit.

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

Didn't he fancy Sebastian BEFORE he was taken to the Stately Home in Seb's car? I thought the attraction was mutual when they first saw each other, though Seb's name being Lord Flyte must have meant there was wealth there, but he still spotted him at Uni before he knew his title and name.

[@bnap3221]

Eyes bulging with imagined riches

[@harmoniabalanza]

@@DeepScreenAnalysis I beg to differ.

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

@@harmoniabalanza then you didn’t read the damn book.

[@mkfloyd9131]

Don't listen then, it was set 80 odd years ago.....

[@mkfloyd9131]

Kids would (like most times) spoil a wonderful chance they have for happiness and bliss, why everyone is child mad is beyond me........globalman not even a house hold name in your own house.....

[@mkfloyd9131]

Quite right....

[@stevebaker341]

Why would Rome be the most unsympathetic place for Berryl to meet Lord Marchmain?

[@l1tlelady1]

Rome, home of the Catholic Church, was much more traditional at that time. Given that he married Mrs Marchmin in the Catholic Church, he was considered still married, and therefore it was scandalous (and sinful) for him to be with Cara., and they both would have been ostracized in Rome.

[@stevebaker341]

Why would Rome be the most unsympathetic place for Lord Marchmain to meet Beryl?

[@vickiecook6380]

He should leave it to Julia and Charles

[@globalman]

Why is Julia not with child I wonder? If they are so in love and passionate she'd be pregnant thereby providing the future heir. It seems unlikely that Brideshead would have not done his duty earlier on. Married, produced a few offspring and retired to his match boxes. Beautiful Stephane Audran. All else pales next to this French icon.

[@harmoniabalanza]

Just like a man to say that. I detest old men who think women are just baby machines. Bah!

[@hannahwebster5606]

I think she had a misvarriage when she was with Rex so maybe she had issues with having children

[@heyyou9839]

They aren’t married! Brideshead is autistic & he’s not beautiful in the book

[@marysueeasteregg]

They aren't married (are both she and Charles divorced by this point?), and an out of wedlock pregnancy would be a greater scandal than the living together unmarried. There were contraceptives pre-WWII -- condoms and diaphragms. Neither Julia nor Charles is a practicing Catholic at this point, so they may have availed themselves of these.

[@javiergarciaflorez9822]

Los consejos de breidi

[@javiergarciaflorez9822]

Is heart

[@harmoniabalanza]

Men need a certain something from women, and many women do not understand that.

[@heyyou9839]

LOL, men need to provide their masculine energy, safety, emotional competence, leadership, and THEN get to make demands. The fact that you call it a certain something means you don’t even know what it is you want

[@spritelybird]

How does someone that old have such chops? Most people start suffering dementia in their 50's.

[@harmoniabalanza]

They do?

[@texasred2702]

Your family isn't typical, Sweetheart.

[@spritelybird]

@@texasred2702 I worked for Medicare. You have no idea what is typical.

[@marysueeasteregg]

@@spritelybird You don't have any idea what is typical, because dementia is not a normal part of aging. Even at 90, most people do NOT have dementia, though a large fraction do (about 35%). Medicare doesn't cover people until 65. By definition, any claims you would have been seeing would have been for the sick, not the healthy! "Dementia is more prevalent at older ages. About 3% of adults ages 70 to 74 had dementia in 2019, compared with 22% of adults ages 85 to 89 and 33% of adults ages 90 and older." quoted from "Fact Sheet: U.S. Dementia Trends" 2021 PRB org (Population Reference Bureau) "Rates of dementia and mild cognitive impairment rose sharply with age: three percent of people between 65 and 69 had dementia, rising to 35% for people aged 90 and over." quoted from "One in 10 Older Americans Has Dementia" Michigan Medicine News" October 2022 "The prevalence of dementia among individuals aged 71 and older was 13.9%, comprising about 3.4 million individuals in the USA in 2002. The corresponding values for AD [Alzheimer's] were 9.7% and 2.4 million individuals. Dementia prevalence increased with age, from 5.0% of those aged 71-79 years to 37.4% of those aged 90 and older." Prevalence of Dementia in the United States: The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study 2007 NIH National Library of Medicine

[@ericnfan]

what tacky red bedding.