The whole summer in one episode, but no reference Clair/Alex backpack trip though Europe. Sometimes it feels like the writers aren't actually watching the show.

Overall, very pleased with this series. The finale diverged the most from the book, but it still captured the spirit and feeling of the novel, and everyone ended up more or less their proper place. They even added a few nice touches — the fairy tale kiss between Strange and Arabella, for example. That said, there are…

That was the bargain. Strange would grant Mrs. Delgado's heart's desire, and she would grant his. His, of course, was to learn to become mad. Hers, it turned out, was to become a cat.

Also disappointed they skipped "Leucrocuta, the Wolf of the Evening," but great episode overall.

I agree. When I saw the black tornado thing in the commercials, I assumed it was when Strange conceals the tower with storms, not the tower itself.

Loved how cover of Strange's book echoed the cover of the novel.

He does indeed. But the normally assiduous Ms. Clarke gets the date of Byron's death wrong, marking it as 1822 rather than 1824.

Between Strange & Norrell and Poldark, I predict the tricorn hat is going to make a comeback.:)

Norrell is an Age of Enlightenment Rationalist struggling to tame magic, which is by its nature wild, irrational and unpredictable.

That's a good point about Stephen. Lady Pole can talk to Stephen, but neither can talk about their situation to anyone else and be understood. (There is a "rose" at each of their mouths.) In the book, Stephen is not enchanted way the Ladies Pole and Strange are, he's merely an invited guest because the GWTTDH took a…

Caitlin - I agree I'd love to see a John Murray miniseries. He published Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and lots more. A lot of fun to be had with that idea.

Top bloke, that Mr. Reppion.

Definitely. I've enjoyed and re-watched every episode so far. Personally, I'd have like to have seen the book given the Game of Thrones treatment and spread the epic out over several years, but I think it's quite a good adaptation. The main things missing are Clarke's singular narrative voice and the countless…

That's one thing that gets lost in the compression of the miniseries: the amount of time between events. Strange had been Norrell's pupil for at least six or seven years at that point, and Lady Pole and Stephen Black have been suffering at the hands of the Gentleman for even longer.

"Honeyfoot and Segundus – it sounds very well!"

One the many themes of the book is that of kingdoms without their kings and I wonder if those who haven't read the book or who aren't particularly up on British history are having trouble following that. Most of Strange & Norrell is set in the Regency, the ten years from 1811 to 1820, when George III was removed from…

You're correct. If Lost Hope were a ship, discovering the King's Roads is like discovering the ocean.

Precisely. As wicked as he is, the Gentleman would never in a million years think of himself as the villain, or imagine his actions to be anything but noble and generous. The TV version feels a bit too stereotypically "evil," rather and alien and amoral.

The magic forms are indeed different. Strange was reanimating the dead, rather than resurrecting. The soldiers, even thought walking around and talking, were still dead. I can accept Lady Pole as frozen in time — the Gentleman likely wouldn't want her to age anyway — but in this episode Norrell explicitly told her she…

“Two magicians will appear of England. The name of one shall be Fearfulness, the name of the other, Arrogance." Norrell is clearly the former. Fearfulness and caution inform all his actions. I've long held that there lots of ways to interpret the pair of magicians — reason vs. imagination, left brain/right brain,…