I watched the first couple of minutes in French (but I'm not too familiar with his Sherlock's French voice so I can't tell if it was the same) then I realised I could switch to English and obviously did it, but it's new to me! I had never noticed I could do that on my tv. Nice stuff! lol.

Yeah, blond hair doesn't suit him well... I like him better either with his natural ginger colour or with darker hair.

QuiteExtraordinary wrote:

I like it very much. It is challenging and I'll probably have to rewatch it a couple of times to fully understand it, but I kind of like that, especially in films with a historical setting. Benedict's acting was wonderful (and the other actors' too), the characters were complex - perfect!

 
I think, those are my feelings, too.

Agree also to Stoertebeker: Hubby said yesterday "It seems as if they run through a very thick book in a very short time." Hm....... yes. I think that's it exactly 

I'm so glad you all liked it. I've watched this already three times and read the book and still discover new things in it. When watching it for the second or third time you see many details you haven't looked at before. For example the use of mirrors in many scenes. It's just wonderful. 
As for stoertebeker's remark: The book also starts very abruptly as if in the middle of a story. That's the style of Ford. Many things are just hinted at and never told in detail. 

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I've recorded it yesterday. We will watch it when we are done with "Hell on Wheels" (still two episodes left). Waiting is the prize for convincing hubby to watch it with me.

Mary Me wrote:

We've also recorded it yesterday. I was, shall we say, surprised that they chosed to give Tietjens the same german voice as for Sherlock. It's a really lovely and quite extraordinary series. Even in german it was hard to understand the plot in detail so I will give it another go and pay more attention the next time. 

I've told Hubby that the plot is said to be quite difficult to follow. One of the arguments that convonced him to watch it. That, and that it was on HBO.

English society back then. Nothing else to do than to spread gossip.

SusiGo wrote:

But it's cruel to treat your son like that, isn't it? 

It is indeed. And to be honest, I was shocked that he paid attention to the rumours about his son at all.
 

I liked it as well. Great camera, acting and characters. In spite of the dubbing, I still didn't get everything, but thanks arte I can watch it over and over again.
I enjoyed having so many curious characters - not one of them seems to be an open book, there are always surprises.
Benedict's PE-style is not my cuppa, but he plays in a way I found great to see nevertheless.

Hubby sat next to me laughing remarkably often - but later he claimed it was more boring than Proust 
In spite of that, he added, it was still within the 2% top range of TV events. Well!

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I did watch PE only once before, but already noticed that on arte there are obviously missing a lot of snippets of the original.
I hate when they do that!!

Mattlocked wrote:

I did watch PE only once before, but already noticed that on arte there are obviously missing a lot of snippets of the original.
I hate when they do that!!

I wonder if the German dubbed DVD/Bluray (release date July 26th) will contain the original 287 minutes (plus the 49:06 minutes long "Behind the Scenes") or, more likely, the cut version as shown on ARTE. More likely because: What's the point of dubbing the whole series if you intend to make cuts anyway?
At this point (3 episodes have been shown so far) it's difficult to make comparisons between the original  and the German episodes because ARTE made 6 out of the original 5 - with some flashbacks of the previous episodes at their respective beginnings.

Just for the record - if you're interested - here are the original episodes' lenghts:
1:  58:31 mins
2:  57:36 mins
3:  56:43 mins
4:  57:32 mins
5:  58:18 mins
Behind The Scenes: 49:06