Les Misérables on PBS, episode 5
May 13, 2019
I think we all learned a lesson tonight: Hugo didn’t know that cinema would be invented within a half-century of when he wrote Les Misérables, but he did write for the stage, and if he’d known about cinema, he would have wanted in. So when adapting him, in action scenes and interactions between characters, just get...
Les Misérables on PBS, episode 4
May 6, 2019
OK, so let’s just get this out of the way: THERE IS NO BROTHEL SCENE IN LES MISÉRABLES. Also, Éponine is not in the business of free peep shows to the neighbors, and Hugo worked very hard to make every interaction between Marius and Cosette pure as the driven snow, even down to their thoughts about each other. In...
Ep51 - V,3,i-vii - The Soul in Muck
May 5, 2019
Jean Valjean wrestles with what he finds beneath the streets.
Episode 51 extras
May 5, 2019
Here's the 1830 map again for your convenience, if you'd like to try to locate Jean Valjean's approximate trajectory through the sewers.
And the details of that journey are too much for our Google map (and my mapping skills), but I have marked, in the new Part V layer, the point where Jean Vajean enters the sewer and...
Les Misérables on PBS, episode 3
Apr 30, 2019
Some themes seem to be emerging, as we’re half way through the series....
Lily Collins continued to do amazing work tonight, and the headline, I think, was Fantine’s death scene, which was stunning all around. Apart from the metal bar that connects this scene to the one by the Bishop’s bedside in the book, and...
