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''Parade's End'' is a five-part

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/ HBO/ VRT television serial adapted from the

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of novels (1924–1928) by

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. It premiered on BBC Two on 24 August 2012 and on HBO on 26 February 2013. The series was also screened at the 39th Ghent Film Festival on 11 October 2012. The miniseries was directed by

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and written by

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. The cast was led by

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and

Rebecca Hall Rebecca Maria Hall (born 3 May 1982) is an English actress and filmmaker. She made her first onscreen appearance at age 10 in the 1992 television adaptation of '' The Camomile Lawn'', directed by her father, Sir Peter Hall. Her professional s ...

as Christopher and Sylvia Tietjens, along with

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, Miranda Richardson, Anne-Marie Duff,

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Janet McTeer Janet McTeer (born 5 August 1961"Ms Janet McTeer, OBE"
. ''Derbrett's P ...

, Freddie Fox, Jack Huston, and

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. The series received widespread critical acclaim and has sometimes been cited as "the

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''". In its BBC Two premiere, the series attracted 3.5 million viewers, making it BBC Two's most watched drama since ''

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'' aired in 2005. The miniseries received six BAFTA TV nominations, including Best Actress for

, and five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay for

and Best Actor for

. It won Best Costume Design at the 2013 BAFTAs.

Plot summary

In the years before the

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, three Britons are drawn into fraught and ultimately tragic relations: Anglican Christopher Tietjens, second son of the

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of Groby, Yorkshire, who is a disconsolate statistician in London, with traditional

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beliefs;

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Sylvia Satterthwaite, his promiscuous and self-centred socialite wife who has married him knowing that she was already pregnant (possibly by another man); and

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Valentine Wannop, a young suffragette, pacifist daughter of a lady novelist, who is torn between her idealism and her attraction to "Chrissy". As the war works a profound change on Europe, and Christopher is badly wounded in France, the conflict shatters and rearranges the lives of all three principals, as well as virtually everyone else in their elite circle.

Production

The series was conceived when

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approached playwright Tom Stoppard to write the adaptation. After reading the novels, Stoppard agreed to pen the screenplay, thus marking his return to television after a 30-year absence. Stoppard has stated that he had considered

for the role of Christopher Tietjens even before '' Sherlock'' made him a global star.

was cast as Valentine after arriving for her audition in period clothing. Initially, producers were reluctant to cast an Australian actress but were won over on finding that Clemens' father is a British national. A significant part of the film was shot on location in

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, at

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and St. Thomas a Becket Church. Additional scenes were filmed at Freemasons' Hall in London and

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. The rest of the series was filmed in Belgium, including

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in the town of Aalter, utilising television drama tax breaks, with scenes at the Western Front recreated in

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. Stoppard made changes from the source material, such as excluding most of the fourth novel, streamlining the plot to focus on the love triangle, and adding overt sex scenes. The exclusion of the fourth novel is not without precedent; it was also done in

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's 1963 edition of ''Parade's End'', and Ford himself sometimes referred to it as a trilogy; "He may have written the fourth to fulfill a contract or because he needed more money", said Michael Schmidt, the executor of Ford's literary estate.

Cast

as Christopher Tietjens *

as Sylvia Tietjens *

as Valentine Wannop * Miranda Richardson as Mrs Wannop, Valentine's widowed mother * Freddie Fox as Edward Wannop, Valentine's younger brother *

Janet McTeer Janet McTeer (born 5 August 1961"Ms Janet McTeer, OBE"
. ''Derbrett's P ...

as Mrs Satterthwaite, Sylvia's mother *

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as Father Consett *

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as Tietjens Senior *

as Mark Tietjens, Christopher's elder half-brother * Misha Handley as Michael Tietjens (4 years old) * Rudi Goodman as Michael Tietjens (8 years old) * Stephen Graham as Vincent MacMaster * Anne-Marie Duff as Edith Duchemin *

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as Reverend Duchemin, Edith's husband *

as General Edward Campion * Patrick Kennedy as Captain McKechnie *

as Colonel Bill Williams *

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as Evie, Sylvia's maid * Jack Huston as Gerald Drake, Sylvia's former lover *

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as Peter "Potty" Perowne, involved in affair with Sylvia *

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as Lord Brownlie, frustrated admirer of Sylvia's *

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as Bobbie Pelham, Sylvia's best friend * Sasha Waddell as Lady Glorvina, Bobbie Pelham's mother *

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as Captain Notting * William Ellis as Aubrey

Episode list

Reception

The series has received widespread acclaim from British critics, ''

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''s

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going so far as to proclaim it "one of the finest things the BBC has ever made". Others praised Cumberbatch and Hall in the lead roles, Cumberbatch for his ability to express suppressed pain, ''The Independent''s Gerard Gilbert observed, "Perhaps no other actor of his generation is quite so capable of suggesting the tumult beneath a crusty, seemingly inert surface". ''The Arts Desk''s Emma Dibdin found "Cumberbatch's performance... faultless and often achingly moving, a painful juxtaposition of emotional stiffness and deep, crippling vulnerability". Hall's Sylvia was lauded as "one of the great female characters of the past decade" by Caitlin Moran, who also wrote that "the script and direction have genius-level IQ" in her ''

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'' TV column. ''Parade's End'' attracted 3.5 million viewers for its first episode, making it the most watched BBC2 drama since ''

'' (2005). The second episode had a drop in ratings with 2.2 million viewers. A few viewers found the sound mixing awkward, the dialogue difficult to hear and understand. The miniseries received generally favourable reviews from American and Canadian television critics for its HBO broadcast, according to

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. Writing for Roger Ebert's ''

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'' column, Jeff Shannon wrote that the miniseries has "up-scale directing" and "award-worthy performances" while Brad Oswald of the ''

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'' called it "a television masterpiece". Ford's tetralogy became a best-seller after the dramatisation was broadcast on the

...
.

Awards and nominations

''Parade's End'' was nominated for numerous awards. Both

and

won the

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awards for Best Actor and Actress respectively, while

picked up the Writer's Award and the series itself won Best Drama Series. The miniseries received six BAFTA TV nominations, including Best Actress for Rebecca Hall and five Primetime Emmy Award nominations including Best Adapted Screenplay for Tom Stoppard and Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch. It won Best Costume Design at the BAFTAs.

Merchandise

BBC Books produced a tie-in edition of ''Parade's End'' with Cumberbatch, Hall, and Clemens on the cover. It was made available in the UK on 16 August 2012.

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published a ''Parade End'' companion book by

, which includes the script, production stills, and deleted scenes omitted from the broadcast. The soundtrack by

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was released in digital and physical copies on 2 October 2012. The BBC released DVD and Blu-ray copies of the series on 8 October 2012. They include behind the scenes footage and selected interviews with crew and cast members.

References

External links

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