THE PURSUIT OF LOVE - REVIEW BY PETER BRADSHAW 

Love the review, Peter. I think you’re the only critic that can make a slating sound commendatory. Like a slap disguised as a loving tap.

Back in the day (2015?), I always looked forward to the Guardian Film Show, so very interested to see your new independent YT channel, Peter! Very enjoyable review and helpful reminder of exactly what was iffy about the Mitfords. I, too, feel like the Love in a Cold Climate recommendation has followed me around. We don't need to celebrate dissolute toffs, do we?

Anyone get Pete Townshend on ukelele and John Entwistle on brass ? the blue red and grey by the Who at the start.

This was so much better than Call of Duty which I didn't bother to watch. I binge watched it by watching one episode one evening and the following episode the following day.

Well, I will concede that Nancy Mitford is not as brilliant as Evelyn Waugh, but I love two of her novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. I read them during my miserable adolescence on an isolated farm in the countryside under the control of an irascible father, and the Radlett children and Fanny immediately became my imaginary friends. I also got many belly laughs from the antics of my favourite characters, Davey and Lady Montdore ("She scrambled down like a camel, rising again backside foremost like a cow...": that's a hilarious description of an incompetent curtsey: do admit, Peter.) I detested the 2021 adaptation because unlike the Thames Television production of the 1980's, it is sickeningly self-conscious and politically correct. In the Thames TV production (which is available to watch in its entirety here on RU-vid), the characters were allowed to be themselves.

For the American audience.😏

I adored the locations and visuals, but just couldn’t get past the clown-like pantomime acting of Lily James. If she’d been any more hammy we could have stuck a snout on her and called her Piglet.