Death Comes to Pemberley

Watch: Death Comes to Pemberley Season 1 Episode 1

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3 episodes1 season

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Overview:

Death Comes to Pemberley is a 2013 three-part British television drama based on P. D. James' 2011 novel of the same name, a murder mystery based on the style and characters of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. June 1803, six years after the union of Elizabeth and Mr Darcy: one evening, George Wickham and his wife Lydia are travelling by carriage to Pemberley for a ball with Captain Denny. Wickham and Denny have a dispute, and leave in anger. The two men disappear into the woodland, where Lydia hears two gunshots.

Created by:

Juliette Towhidi

Status:

Ended

Language:

English

First air date:

12/26/2013

Last air date:

12/28/2013

Key words:

england
based on novel or book
servant
sequel
romance
miniseries
period drama
housekeeper
estate
gentleman
costume drama
murder mystery
drawing room
upstairs downstairs
19th century
empire fashion
georgian or regency era

Seasons

Miniseries

3 Episodes

Cast

Matthew Rhys

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Fitzwilliam Darcy

Anna Maxwell Martin

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Elizabeth Darcy

Matthew Goode

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George Wickham

Trevor Eve

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Sir Selwyn Hardcastle

Jenna Coleman

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Lydia Wickham

Oliver Rix

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Cartwright

Tom Ward

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Colonel Fitzwilliam

Eleanor Tomlinson

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Georgiana Darcy

James Norton

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Henry Alveston

Nichola Burley

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Louisa Bidwell

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Reviews (1)

Peter McGinn
Written 3 year(s) ago
8
This non-Austen sequel to Pride and Prejudice was quite good. It featured an intelligent rendering of the familiar story and characters of the original, but you would expect no less from the PD James novel.

Since I watch a lot of British programming, sec=verbal of the actors were familiar to me, and the ensemble cast stayed in their lanes and put on a great collective performance.

It must have been fun for them and the director, for they were able to reenact familiar scenes from Pride and Prejudice as memory flashbacks.

There were traces i=of character growth here and there, but characters such as the irrepressible Lydia, the cad Wickham, and the drama queen Mrs. Bennett are little changed so quite recognizable.

The subplots add enough to the story to carry their weight, especially one of them that ties into the murder mystery, and the same can be said for a few new characters created for this sequel. Small aspects of the developments might be predictable, but there is one twist that is both logical and shocking. What more can you ask of a plot twist?