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Gormenghast
2000 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Mervyn Peake, Malcolm McKay
Science FictionFantasyMysteryComedyActionAdventure
At the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than seventy generations. A clever and ambitious new kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins to insinuate himself into the affections of Lady Fuchsia Groan and to murder his way to power.
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A Gormenghast movie/series could be incredible.
The mini series was... earnest. To me, it was a fine reminder that, while letting someone like Lynch ride roughshod over the source material isn't great, you can still get a pretty mediocre result from being faithful to the source material.
IMO the biggest weak spot of the miniseries was that it was about 50/50 good actors and terrible ones; and nothing shows this up more than scenes shared between both types of actors. The adaptation of Gormenghast had the same problem. It's almost better to have all indifferent actors, rather than have John Hurt swapping lines with someone who would be lucky to get a role in a soap opera.