I'm a book lover but I loved this. Yes, it left out some stuff (Marmeladov's long intro scene, Katerina's mad scene, Luzhin trying to frame Sonia for theft and failing), but it's a deep and inspired adaptation wit a really great cast.
I came for John Simm and I found him totally absorbed int the role, not a trace of the Master. He's wonderful. I believed him from the first moment.
Ian McDiarmid if an excellent Porfiry, annoying like hell (as he should be!), good to see him in something other than SW.
And Nigel Terry steals every scene he's in. No, he's not exactly book!Svidrigailov, they romanticized him a bit and they swept his really dark depths under the rug. No mention of him raping a maiden or other unsettling things. Without that, he doesn't come off as a villain, rather as an aging man who is truly and utterly in love, almost a victim. And with Terry being so gorgeous, you just don't understand Dunya...
I came for John Simm and I found him totally absorbed int the role, not a trace of the Master. He's wonderful. I believed him from the first moment.
Ian McDiarmid if an excellent Porfiry, annoying like hell (as he should be!), good to see him in something other than SW.
And Nigel Terry steals every scene he's in. No, he's not exactly book!Svidrigailov, they romanticized him a bit and they swept his really dark depths under the rug. No mention of him raping a maiden or other unsettling things. Without that, he doesn't come off as a villain, rather as an aging man who is truly and utterly in love, almost a victim. And with Terry being so gorgeous, you just don't understand Dunya...