Mapp & Lucia (2014) Part 1

Steve Pemberton's version from 2014, here's the first part, more next week, adaptation of EF Benson's novel. Filmed in Rye, East Sussex.

[@spmoran4703]

I have arrived here after enjoying a Jeeves and Wooster episode on another channel . Brilliant . And i also like the Mapp and Lucia stories . Occasionally i am listening to Cold comfort farm as a radio play . I have come to this conclusion , that England in the 1920s and 30s , went through a golden period of well written comedy and total daftness .

[@jabbermocky4520]

Between the wars English young people were less hemmed in by stuffy traditions and had a lot of new modern conveniences. They could zoom around in cars and leave the confines of their villages without horses. I think the horrors of WW I left a zany crack in the old English humor. P.G. Wodehouse is definitely the best known writer from the era who made upper class eccentricities the most humorous features of interest in his characters. Spode, for example. That guy!

[@MrFella141]

I've been looking for this for years! Thank you

[@mayhewfisher62]

Am just rereading Lucia and Mapp, and came across this. Perfect!

[@matrixwakeup]

Really interesting to watch...Thanks

[@jcs3330]

Although the subject has nothing to do with the Christmas, holidays this is the time I sit and watch it on DVD has a treat. It is so well written and although both main characters are sarcastic to each other at all times, it is such innocent entertainment and enjoyable to watch. Although a lot of people criticise this version from the BBC original, personally I much prefer this version although wish it could have been has long has the original broadcast.

[@freudzwetdream]

This is a pale production to the 1985 one. Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, and Nigel Hawthorn are peerless.

[@chrish7975]

The combination of Hawthorn, McEwan and Scales was like the perfect storm.. a confluence which only occurs once in a lifetime. It's funny that Miranda Richardson's performance is head and shoulders above everyone else's and only because of her somewhat bizarre interpretation of Scales' Mapp.

[@MagnusVonBenz]

Anna Chancellor was the worst possible choice for the role of Lucia. As far as I'm concerned, she should have played Evie Bartlett, the town's gray mouse. And Steve Pemberton put on his Georgie far too gay. Nigel Hawthorne played the role much more sympathetically and humorously in 1985.

[@Belzedar]

I had more the sense that Steve Pemberton was playing Nigel Hawthorne playing Georgie.

[@prd1073]

@@Belzedaror him playing Herr Lipp (League of gentlemen) playing Nigel Hawthorn playing Georgie.

[@springsogourne]

This Quant Irenie is much better than the actress cast in the 1980s production, other than that the rest of the cast pales in comparison to the original cast

[@georgerodekin2058]

just adorable! so fresh, so adequate

[@AGMundy]

so utterly awful, anyone who has read the books would be horrified by this travesty of an adaptation

[@AlisonProctor-fq4kt]

Thank you!

[@winterquilting7318]

This is hilarious!

[@bernardbriant6699]

Love Rye. Love these tales!

[@stevemiller7949]

Love it, bless you.

[@cathykinn4516]

🤔 mercifully there is the 1985 version. For E F Benson's sake.

[@mrrkdino]

Dreadful production. No wonder it didn't go any further. You won't better the one with Geraldine McEwan and Prunella Scales.

[@martynw9166]

I totally agree with you.

[@cocs88715]

I really hoped the 1985 cast took on the entire 6 novels… just imagine that!!

[@thefourthmember]

This is brilliant as is the first version of these magnificent stories by E.F. Benson. "We love books by E.F. Benson". I think that Steve Pemberton is incredibly talented. Are we not fortunate that these wonderful stories have been retold in such a glorious manner by both casts? I think that they have been beautifully illustrated. "Maybe one day" I will visit Rye to see for myself the scenes evoked by the first version, but for now I am grateful that I can see them in my minds eye as I read the books and also in this version here.

[@Andrew-lm2xt]

this is such a mess....why do another adaptation that is in no way an improvement on the 85 version. Miranda Richardson is playing some kind of weirdly sinister figure, and Anna Chamberlain couldn't be worse.

[@cheriebanshee2166]

I disagree. After reading the novels I enjoy their respective characters thoroughly!! Also loved bits introduced that were left out if the original series. A delightful modern rendition❤

[@Andrew-lm2xt]

@@cheriebanshee2166 Well the world disagrees with you. One has endured 40 years, the other disappeared without even a full season.

[@phineasbluster2872]

I only needed 20 minutes or so watching new series to see how unbearably out of joint the main players are... in terms of facial And body stance, blocking (as it were), timing etc Also, shout out to Nigel Hawthorn in the original series. He played Giorgino to a T.

[@donaldmacfarlane7325]

TOTAL RUBBISH! I can't think why they bothered. It is not a patch on the 1980s series. The acting is feeble and ridiculous. The feeble actors of today are not a patch on the old ones and hardly any of them can do 1930s accents. This looks like an American amateur production.

[@shabbysuzannah3702]

These types of people still exist - so amusing (and pathetic) and so wrapped up in themselves 🇬🇧

[@stevehinnenkamp5625]

Remake a fiasco! Why?.... No magic. (Compared to the original)

[@ambrosejoseph4843]

This version is just awful. Try the original.