The Camomile Lawn S01 E05

[@garryhastings3383]

First saw this wonderful series in Oz as a British migrant. I now live in Penzance and often visit the flower shop in Causeway Head. Yes, it's still there. I knew always that this is where I wanted to live out my days.

[@frannieo1707]

I love this series. It is a terrific adaptation, brilliantly cast, and beautifully filmed. Takes me back to happier times when it was first broadcast.

[@madliberal7710]

What a gem of a mini-series. Bittersweet and humorous at the same time.

[@kellybaxter2558]

Ahhh brings back nostalgia seeing this series again. Such amazing acting. I had forgotten but I love that (I assume) Sophie and Oliver got together.

[@jewels3895]

Loved this whole journey. Thank you

[@asa1973100]

Absolutely delighted to have found this because I have previously searched for it . Absolutely loved this way back when it was first show on tv & it's every bit as enjoyable as it was back in 94.

[@nilinu]

Quite superb! A bitter-sweet almost forgotten world and wonderful performances from everyone, particularly the young Sophy/Rebecca Hall.

[@BreezyE-d3n]

I watched this when it first aired. Life changing

[@nancyelliott3653]

In what way please? Iam curious..

[@BreezyE-d3n]

@@nancyelliott3653 I think it was the human interactions, wives, husbands, siblings, lovers etc., and the effect war had on those relationships. I was about 12 years old when I watched it in the early 90s. It was an education for me. I fell in love with the theme tune too.

[@unitedservice2033]

thank you for the up load, it was so compelling I had to watch them all like a marathon

[@prokkle]

Many thanks for posting this. I saw it when it was on TV, but had forgotten how good it was.

[@janetlunnon603]

Absolutely brilliant didn't catch this on TV but very glad I watched it now. Great performances and a great ending.

[@jeanthomson2720]

great series and just as good watching it again. it explains some things about my parents generation.

[@terinunes604]

Beautiful series makes me homesick for something...

[@Morbius1963]

Thanks for uploading. Enjoyed it then and now with a filled gap in between.

[@tykotate9346]

I hugely enjoyed this! Thanks so much for uploading.

[@leebloid]

25.53, the pub scene. Filmed in my local The Royal Oak in Pirbright, Surrey. Go and sample the ale and immerse yourself in a bit of film history.

[@MsYulia2702]

I so adore Rosemary Harris and Jennifer Ehle, magically beautiful actresses. Both have amazing voices and magnetic smiles ♥ it's so sweet how these things can be passed down from mother to daughter

[@MickJaggerLoveChild]

The actor playing older Oliver is SPOT ON!!!! I had to check it wasn't Toby Stephens real father lol. The mannerisms and looks he gives are so like young Oliver.

[@johnmounce8680]

They did choose well. Funny enough, the older version of Calypso is played by Rosemary Harris, who is Jennifer Ehle's (Calypso) real-life mother, and both Hector and his son Hamish are played by Nicholas Le Prevost, made up differently for each.

[@battywattywoo]

Nevertheless, Old Father Time is so cruel!

[@bevball964]

Seen this years ago. Love seeing it again xx

[@nadinemartranchard1768]

I love how open minded they are - even when one questioned the religion of Max at his funeral, such a great reply. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@RkristinaTay]

Max was a Jew. Why is that a great reply? It is a fact.

[@rubytuesday5412]

Thank you. Very enjoyable.

[@tcsk1975]

i absolutly loved it watch nothing but english movies older the better a very true american fan

[@charityshoptreasures2569]

Seen this before but I enjoyed every minute really well superb acting

[@lesleymcshanemitchell9651]

thank you enjoyinbg every minute

[@SandraFletcher-Wells-hx6fo]

Wonderful series

[@weeknightingale]

Great viewing this! Wonderful ending! Thanks for posting this! ~K

[@joycebyrd6333]

Such a wonderful series. Makes me look back & wish I had enjoyed my life more. Bet , if not true parts are! Some comments help me to realize people can be so bitter about their lives must not have been so good. Bitter about their past, never "moved on". You only have One life enjoy what you have left. Find A Way!

[@babybutchie]

Exactly the effect on me. Looking back, wishing I had enjoyed my life more.

[@eccremocarpusscaber5159]

I watched this at the age of 13. Watching it again, returning and returning to it - well, I’ve had so much fun and so many experiences in my life that I have no regrets - and I’m very aware that I’m lucky for that.

[@avrildaniels49]

so very true, I was so naive back then and too scared to take chances and opportunities. Have made up for it now though.

[@MickJaggerLoveChild]

And Calypso obviously did love Hector :)

[@carolinebarnes6832]

Hector was the only one man enough for her.

[@loonylinda]

good to see this again...

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Thank you so much!

[@jaceylataire2511]

I LOVD IT!!! Thank you !!!

[@bevball964]

Remember this. Was very celever written.

[@finnegan67]

This is a very good TV drama

[@TheSapphire51]

Bloody brilliant. They just don't make them like that anymore. Whatever happened to the BBC?

[@natalyafisher2571]

It wasn't made by the BBC. It was made by Channel 4 originally 😀

[@leilal8053]

@@natalyafisher2571 That explains the excessive nudity then...

[@bingola45]

@@leilal8053 It explains the excess of 'normal' sex, more like.

[@SarahjaneSmithson]

Mary Wesley was the best novelist. And this adaptation is wonderful!

[@leakawatchempino]

very good production and good casting although i noticed sophie didn't grow during those war years, perhaps it would have broken the continuity to change the young actress...loved the musical score too...thanks for posting..

[@FreyaEinde]

Hmmm from ten to fourteen it’s possible she might not have grown much, wasn’t the war just under five years.

[@CCCVoice1]

Rebecca Hall is the director's daughter. He was showcasing her. That probably explains why he didn't cast a slightly older actor to play teen Sophy, which in my opinion he should have. She did not have the acting range that the actors playing young Calypso and Polly had as they changed through the war. It made the appearance of Claire Bloom as the much older Sophy more jarring than the other casting changes. Felicity Kendall was superb throughout, playing all the phases of Helena.

[@marciacrosby6170]

I am sure I have watched this at least twice; it's complex in terms of the actors, time and circumstance, but I keep being very amazed at the complexity of the narrative, and relationships. I keep wondering who watched it in the 1980s. Was it on television??

[@bingola45]

I did. I watched this television drama in 1992, when it first aired.

[@jerryman191]

Continuity guy needs a roasting! During Oliver and Sophie's wrangling upon preparing to leave the wake, the collar of Sophie's blouse is in and out of her raincoat like a jack in the box!

[@malmoskane6509]

I love this❤

[@tutbell6564]

Excellent.

[@slavatsvetkov4552]

Sofie has a knack for being at the right places, just at the right time

[@MickJaggerLoveChild]

Max is such a CREEP!!!! I don't know why they all slept with him, and that scene in the car is eeiry considering he takes Sophie's virginity URGH.

[@tippi2head]

The problem was having the same actress portray the role from 10 year old through to 16 year old at the end of the war. I agree it seems creepy in the series - in the book it is less so because she has matured - mentally and physically.

[@slicksterbiden8762]

Max is a jew.

[@tothewonder6248]

It's really gross, probably the worst part.

[@patriciaathome6094]

terrific

[@glendajohnson6824]

Super!

[@geemom04]

Bravo!

[@joycebyrd6333]

Old Tony is much too short.

[@pcojedi]

19:15 My best friend and I snuck my parents stuffed chihuahua into my fathers coffin, the dog was his baby and he wanted her with him.

[@katella]

Stuffed Chihuahua?

[@eamonnevans8005]

Sopby was abused by older men when she was a little girl?

[@opusv5]

Claire Bloom looked excellent for her age.

[@justininfrance]

Difficult to believe so many people of the same family are so sex-obsessed and remain so throughout decades. But they all seem so vacuous maybe they didn't have anything else to think about.

[@battywattywoo]

Spitting Image had a sketch spoofing the series, at the time; but I don't know if the episode's on KZbin.

[@paillette2010]

So true. Vacuous and self absorbed.

[@tothewonder6248]

At first I found it a bit funny and quirky, but then it even trickled down to Sophy and it just started to get a bit ridiculous.

[@pcojedi]

How did max end up owning Helena's house and passing it to his son?

[@satsumamoon]

Max bought the house from her.

[@DaemonZodiac]

24 carrot depravity... right to the end. what a bunch of drunken ponces. why write this? i would like to know what the writer was trying to achieve. Its not often one says this, but i actually feel poorer in some way for having bothered to watch this vile parade of emptyness to its barren conclusion.

[@jamesrichardson476]

Mary Wesley (the author of the novel on which the series is based) was in her seventies when she wrote it, and a thoroughly naughty old woman 🙂 When interviewed about this particular book and its TV adaptation, she said that life during the war had been like that - there was the constant fear of sudden death and doubt about what the future held, and you had to live life while you could. She moved in a certain social milieu and this and her other novels reflect and record that fact, but I can't accept your judgement of it. If it helps your sense of outraged puritanism, the grubbier tabloids described the adaptation as "The Camomile Porn" at the time, which just made me laugh. Each to their own..... PS There are also adaptations of two of her other books, namely "Harnessing Peacocks" and "The Vacillations of Poppy Carew" on KZbin, somewhere. You won't like them, either 🤣🤣

[@DaemonZodiac]

@@jamesrichardson476 so bc I find the idea of everyone screwing anything that moves disagreeable I'm a puritan. That's called strawmanning. A writer will always seek to justify their writing, but not everyone then we're screwing anything that moves. My argument wasn't so much what was there, but what was missing. No genuine human sentiment other than 'where can I get layed in the next hour'. There is more to grabbing happiness than shagging your friends wife, brother, aunt etc.. But u probably wouldn't like anything outside of that one dimensional insular behaviour anyway. If having some morality makes me a puritan, then so be it. Having none makes you a skank of the gutter. And if u cannot see this empty insult to the human experience for what it is then you are a skank of the gutter...calking me derogatory names no less.

[@jamesrichardson476]

I think you are making some fairly wild assumptions about me on the basis of pretty flimsy evidence, but whatever....

[@DaemonZodiac]

@@jamesrichardson476 I was merely mirroring u making some assumptions ab me on flimsy evidence.. I had hoped you'd have the intellectual capacity to realise the irony of my message, but if u Iwill indulge your mind on such cultural turds as the camomile lawn, u probably aren't used to exercising your mind in productive ways.. And that would also explain your rapid withdrawal behind the rock of self pity. Don't get lonely there James..

[@DaemonZodiac]

@@jamesrichardson476 I also adore the way u instinctively made it all ab your narcissistic little self. U did that effortlessly and I followed you in to your rats nest of a self. See, u do have certain skills, you atent as useless as u thought u were..

[@jagdishacharya1438]

Calypso a strange name for a female, actually it's mine fav horse ' Calypso' winner in Derby gold cup # HYD, racing Club. India.

[@eccremocarpusscaber5159]

A beautiful name for a woman. Although my cats are called Oliver and Calypso!

[@battywattywoo]

Comparing it to Deadwood: who's hotter....? Polly or Dolly? Calypso or Trixie? Oliver or Al? Helena or Alma? And who's sweeter, Sophy or Sofia?

[@linzieloo1]

Your comment is ridiculous and crass. I looked up this Deadwood and found a rubbish American HBO series with no relevance at all to The Camomile Lawn.which is in a class if it’s own.

[@PaulaKing-d6p]

It's a shame it all ends up to be a story of sexual squaller. I shut it down when I woke up!

[@PaulaKing-d6p]

Oops, it's late, correction... squalor

[@TheAlikirk]

ya boiiiiiii

[@sozanmarshall2832]

Great actors but I didn't no the only way to get a part is to take your clothes off discussing

[@leilal8053]

Way too much nudity in the whole series for my taste; otherwise OK but not one of .my favorites by any means.

[@eccremocarpusscaber5159]

Oh well done you.

[@katella]

🤦🏽🤷🏽😂