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Well, it’s rather like watching a DH Lawrence novel come alive. Sons and Lovers and all that.<div><br></div><div>I don’t want to be read as making light of anything because I believe Mr. Finch wrote it in a crucible of personal pain and knowledge, and that accounts for the series’ accuracy and detail. And, for what it’s worth, I appreciate the absence of music (although John McCabe’s piping trumpet and flute theme does stay in the head), not turning “real life” into a literal melodrama.</div><div><br></div><div>One stunning aspect is that several of the lead actors died before old age: Alethea Charlton, James Hazeldine, Mark McManus, Ray Smith, John Price (among those I’ve so far seen).</div><div><br></div><div>It’s been a truism for well over 50 years: the very best American television is...British!</div><div><br></div><div>Please take us back...we honestly don’t know how to behave ourselves!<br><br><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Wednesday, June 13, 2018, 2:03 PM, Karen Berridge via Afamilyatwar-list <afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv1851024863"><div>
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<div style="direction:ltr;">Yep Sam is fabulous! I envy you as I’ve already seen it but looking forward to a repeat viewing now I’m newly retired!</div>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Afamilyatwar-list] Sam: Series 1
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<div>Even more wonderful than AFAW (have to keep these posts group-relevant)!
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<div>As far as my American ear can tell, everybody has the proper accent (at least more consistently than the AFAW cast). And the casting is just as eloquent: Michael Goodliffe IS Jack Barraclough (like John McKelvey IS Sefton), and the females are uniformly
superb, especially Mona Bruce.</div>
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<div>There is so much to absorb sociologically and humanly. Folk pressures (gypsies bringing bad luck); political pressures (Means Tests); social pressures (unwed parents); human pressures (desertion, death, family). All this in 39 densely packed episodes.</div>
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<div>Fewer boom shadows and hanging microphones!</div>
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<div>Really a wonderful achievement; I can see When the Boat Comes In got its mooring in Sam. Imitation IS the sincerest form of ... television.</div>
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<div>Right! You lot go out then and get your DVDs! You’ll be gobsmacked! Ay!</div>
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