Peter Firth #2

[A Cousin]

Those of us in the US just finished South Riding so I thought I'd add my opinion.

In a nutshell, I thought it had lots of potential not fully realized. It wasn't horrible, by far, but I'd only watch it again for PF. If you haven't read the book, it is hard to follow. The characters, their relationships, the plot and the overall theme of the series was underdeveloped.

That said, Peter Firth is his usual brilliant, understated and engaging self in it. PF does have an eye for a good character. Snaith is a very interesting character. I found it very difficult to get a handle on him; is he good or bad. The answer was, he's both. I thought he owned the land everyone was buying up, as did Carne, only to find that Snaith was exposing Huggins out of his contempt for him. I *think*? If he did have any kind of financial investment in either plot of land, it was not presented. Its kind of a sh*tty thing to do, but Huggins was a hypocritical naive idiot in way over his head for all the wrong reasons. Snaith's resentment of Carne was an interesting dynamic as well, but under-developed thus confusing. Snaith is at once deeply invested in the betterment of The Riding, but ruthless (no pun intended ) about ridding himself of any perceived obstacles and hypocrisies.

Nice wig too. Couldn't see the mesh or the join. You know I was looking for it too. PF is also very good with animals, isn't he? Snaith is definitely a "cat person!"