The Pursuit of Love (BBC One) | iPlayer
Three Families (BBC One) | iPlayer
The Underground Railroad (Amazon)
Motherland (BBC Two) | iPlayer
Sunday nights do appear to be dear to BBC schedulers: it’s the jewel in the weekly crown, and it’s just a shame that, correspondingly, there has to be a gangrenous thorn in the hoof, which throughout lockdown has been Saturday evenings. But right after THAT
Line of Duty, to get the blistering, gleeful watch that is
The Pursuit of Love … that’s the sign of a planner pulling out the heavy stops on the organ.
It really is, in the language of Nancy Mitford, most awfully well done. Emily Mortimer’s adaptation manages to tell the bones of the story afresh, with spiffy modern renewals, while remaining immensely tender to the paradox at the heart of Linda, a tween-the-wars rosebud with everything in the world except education or any idea of what she, ever, wants, or stands for: truly writ large the Mitfordian creed of do anything as lo