#bbc gentleman jack

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GENTLEMAN JACK (2019 - 2022)

S01, E08: Are You Still Talking? — dir. Sally Wainwright

[filmsquid92]

Suranne Jones kissing women…

[employee645-gay]

“And then tomorrow, you'll leave me.”

M and Anne from season one, episode one.

[lulu-cat-princess]

If YouTube exists in the early 1800s, I will pay big money to see:

Jane Austen

Lord Byron

Dr James Barry

John Keats

William Wordsworth

Percy Bysshe Shelly

The Brothers Grimm

Anne Lister aka Gentleman Jack

Eliza Hamilton

React to Thomas’ poems. Also I like to see these fictional people who would be alive at the same time as Thomas react to his poems:

Dr Henry Morgan from abc forever

Horatio Hornblower

Richard Sharpe

The bridgerton and featherington families

[fandomsmeantheworldtome]

💖Happy Valentine's Day 💖

[cuervom]

Spoiler alert (in case you haven't watched Gentleman Jack season 2)

I had just planned to rewatch S1 because S2, when I watched it, I remember it left me a not good sensation. But after the season 1...I miss them! And it's hard not to keep watching it having another season. I have been rewatching some concrete scenes and maybe this time I see the things in another way. Because, sometimes, when you stop reading a book or watching a series or film, after a few years and new and different experiences in our life  we can understand things that we couldn't or  we understand it in another different and new way. So, I don't know what to do!!

In those scenes that I have watched I have appreciated things that the first time I didn't. But others... I feel angry how Anne's friends treat Ann!! And every time that happens I want a Anne  defending Ann with confidence. I think there's a scene where she does it (I think with M.) Although, I want that in every scene where people is not kind with her. How dare them! Oh my God, she is the kindest, sweetest person! I can't understand why they are so....so... And yes maybe because of this I have this feeling with season 2, because Ann deserves the best and I'm sad and angry with many things. But also there's another scenes that I have liked more than the first time. A Ann more confident and, in some way, is also great to see how their relationship have changed, now settled in Shibden. And, of course, those familiar scenes at the table with Ann. Those are the best.

So...to summarize: I don't know what to do. Do I rewatch it or not??

I guess, if I finally rewatch it and left me again that sensation that I can't to describe, I can always watch season 1 again, right?

[spineless-lobster]

If I had a nickel for ever gay character that says “good lord” an absurd amount of times I’d have 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s strange that it happened twice

[marlagraysonn]

Season 2 baby ☺️

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Gentleman Jack intro

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Anne Lister Italia latest article

But what exactly did Anne Lister and Ann Walker look like? We know it from their passport, the one with which they travelled on their honeymoon in 1834. Unfortunately, we have no portraits of Ann Walker so far, and all we know about her comes from Anne's journals. Of Anne, there are at least those few portraits that have survived (the most famous being the posthumous one hanging in Shibden Hall) and the more 'heartfelt' description by Edward O'Ferrall in his letter. You can find more about the identikit of Anne and Ann on our website, in the article that examines the entire passport. You can also find the link to the article on Edward O'Ferrall's letter in bio.

[crow-in-snow]

Coincidence...or the BBC reusing garments 🤔

[cantsayidont]

August 2021. I'll freely admit that Series 1 of VIGIL has a solid hook for a detective story: Scottish civilian police detective Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) is assigned to investigate a suspicious death aboard the Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine HMS Vigil while it's still on patrol, effective trapping her in a claustrophobic environment where everyone has something to hide, no one respects her authority, and the commanding officers seem eager to sweep the incident under the rug even though there may be a killer onboard. Meanwhile, Silva's partner and ex-girlfriend Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie) investigates a related murder ashore, with both the Navy and MI5 seemingly determined to obstruct her at every turn.

The first few episodes are well-directed and well-acted, with a cast that also includes Connor Swindells (of SEX EDUCATION) and the perennially underutilized Anjli Mohindra, and the show initially maintains a high level of tension despite some implausible and cliched story elements. However, much like the American NCIS shows, the plot eventually does a jarring about-face that transforms what initially seems to be a rather sordid exposé of the Navy into a propaganda piece about the importance of maintaining Britain's nuclear deterrent, with activists who want nuclear weapons out of Scotland painted as cowardly dupes (a reminder that costar Rose Leslie is a Tory who campaigned for Remain in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum). All this is on top of some really egregious copaganda even by policier standards.

The main reason I bothered with the show at all was learning that the two lead characters were actually presented as lovers, or ex-lovers (as opposed to fandom "gay"). I'm as susceptible as anyone to Suranne Jones' expressively pensive frown, and Rose Leslie is certainly attractive despite her terrible real-world politics, but the faux-mo relationship between Amy and Kirsten is neither very convincing nor ultimately very satisfying. Part of the problem is that it plays second fiddle to Amy's traumatic memories of the death of her former boyfriend and her determination to regain custody of the daughter she raised with him — a lot of plot to squeeze into a six-episode series that's also preoccupied with murder investigations, official coverups, and nefarious Russian spies — but even the flashbacks to the beginning of Amy and Kirsten's relationship seldom suggest any real affection between them, much less passion or love. Given a choice, I guess I'd rather have a bad show with chaste and unconvincing wlw than a bad show without any, but it still feels like pinkwashing, a half-hearted and somewhat cynical attempt to attract viewers who might otherwise find the show's subject matter and politics too unpalatable. Given the show's surprising popularity, it seems to have worked.

I only watched the first part of the ill-advised second series, which awkwardly retains the same title despite no longer having anything to do with the submarine. The second series has Amy and Kirsten back together, but they're still at odds because they're about to have a baby, which replaces the first season's conflict about Amy's commitment phobia with a tonally identical conflict based on her being a passive-aggressive control freak about Kirsten's pregnancy, thus once again sparing Jones and Leslie the need to feign too much unseemly gay affection. There's one (1) scene of them cuddling to suggest that perhaps these characters do indeed love each other, but they're then separated by the contrivance of the plot, which has the same problems as the first series and is also chock full of racist, Orientalist nonsense involving a fictional Arab country called Wudyan. Truly dire.

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Gentleman Jack 2 has been nominated for 3 categories in RTS Yorkshire Awards and the documentary Gentleman Jack Changed My Life is nominated for TOO!

I am so happy for seeing Gentleman Jack 2 receiving it's credit!

[breechingbaby]

My bloomers are bone dry thanks to the landlord propoganda in Gentleman Jack. I want queer shit, what is this non-sense?

[sweetsweetlifex-x]

Just finished re watching Scott and Bailey now onto Gentleman Jack again... Ready to watch Anne Lister stomp around being a boss ass bitch. Suranne Jones hyperfixation.