The Catherine Cookson Experience

September 3, 2009

The Catherine Cookson Experience: “The Round Tower”

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Wow, it’s been a long time since I visited a Catherine Cookson! Ladies and gents, welcome to The Round Tower. It’s a sweet little romance about an upper-class girl, a middle-class boy, and the bairnsketball that comes between them! The Round Tower probably Cookson’s most in-depth look at class differences in mid-century England and the […]

June 26, 2009

The Catherine Cookson Experience: “The Man Who Cried”

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[Previous episodes of The Catherine Cookson Experience here.] This week, the CCE delivers my biggest letdown so far: Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root, stars of the Persuasion (best Austen adaptation ever), team up again! And man, they suck. Welcome to The Man Who Cried, which is about a good-looking dude (Ciaran Hinds: well cast, casting […]

May 15, 2009

The Catherine Cookson Experience: The Girl

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So, after last week’s happy-go-lucky tale of nice girls with the memory capacity of a goldfish, we get into the gritty reality of what life was like for the ladies of the 1850s. (Answer: sucky.) Behold, The Girl! Note: There are Cooksons worse than this, but few Cooksons duller. We will be skipping over large […]

May 4, 2009

The Catherine Cookson Experience: “The Tide of Life”

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So, there are two or three more really dismal installments of The Catherine Cookson Experience coming up, and I thought that before I hit all the marital rape and spouse-slapping, everyone could use one that’s pleasantly absurd. Behold, The Tide of Life! Here’s the thing about this miniseries; Gillian Kearney is a really good actress. […]

April 27, 2009

The Catherine Cookson Experience: “The Dwelling Place”

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This week, I tackle the seemingly endless and screamingly worst of all the Cookson adaptations I have seen, The Dwelling Place. Brief note about the Experience: I don’t think I’ll be recapping each one. Some of these are deadly dull stuff. However, I’m starting out with some of the really terrible ones to build appreciation […]

April 24, 2009

The Catherine Cookson Experience: “The Glass Virgin”

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We begin The Catherine Cookson Experience with “The Glass Virgin.” This miniseries was the one that started it all – and stopped it all, since I didn’t go back to another one for over a decade. By the end of my re-watch, I knew why. The Glass Virgin is about a young girl, raised as […]

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