Spoilers Series 2 Gentleman Jack

[Captain Shaw]

Anyone watching series 2 of Gentleman Jack?
Anne Lister isn't bad at getting around in the day's before air travel.

I not sure what's going off with the farming family who, let the pigs eat the dad.
Last series apart from the drunken Dad they didn't seem like a bad family.
But now you have the mother shagging her brother in law in the kitchen and Suzanne being picked on in her own home. I hope they drop this story line soon.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

I finished watching this series with some delay. It is disappointing it got cancelled, when it didn't even get the chance to include an episode showing the honeymoon trips that followed, ending somewhat in the middle of nowhere. And it spend time with the pig farm storyline (which I assume was totally invented for the show, unless everybody got caught) instead.

After seeing this season, I nearly can't reconcile that everything would eventually end with Captain Sutherland caring for Ann Walker at Shibden Hall. So much so it's probably the main reason I decided to reply here, since I just wanted to say somewhere how strange turn of events that is. If the real Sutherland as convinced in his cynicism and judgement as his fictional counterpart, he didn't see that coming, either.

It took me some time to recall that Sophie Rundle played Lucy in The Bletchley Circle. I'm loving the code breaking connection. Sure, Lister's crypt was a simple substitution cipher, but then my curiosity in this kind of thing began with Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which was a simple transposition one published around the time the diary was deciphered, both with fancy alphabets.

 

[auntiehill]

I really enjoyed season 2. I think it showed Anne being a bit more harsh than season 1 but we also got to see more of the politics--not just between the families but the unrest in the entire area.

I do wish they had spent more time with the pig-farmer's family. They just sort of got dropped, which seemed odd.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

The show overall is not at all too flattering to Anne, and from what I gather there's just some exaggeration in that. I've been empathising with Ann throughout. The way she was left for Lister to travel alone the first season was heavy, and in real life of Ann's mental health issues played an even larger role than the show did imply. I'm not suggesting that that stretch would have been easy for either of them, since it couldn't have been. But that part was more heartbreaking than anything in this.

 

[marillion]

I've enjoyed the series and find it disappointing that HBO canceled it. Just another in a string... Carnival's cancellation still stings..

 

[auntiehill]

I've enjoyed the series and find it disappointing that HBO canceled it. Just another in a string... Carnival's cancellation still stings..

Apparently, BBC is still shopping Gentleman Jack around, trying to a new production partner now that HBO has dropped it. So it's not completely dead----just "mostly dead."