South Riding

Name: South Riding
Genre: Drama
Released: February 20, 2011
Rating: 62

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BBC-1 | PBS | BBC | BBC One | Release Date: February 20, 2011

Summary: The First World War is over, so Sarah Burton is returning to her home in Yorkshire after helping with the war effort in London.

A modern woman, her views are foreign to those of her friends. But her passion and ambition put off men, particularly that of Robert Carne, a handsome farmer who she loves to hate. This three-parter starsThe First World War is over, so Sarah Burton is returning to her home in Yorkshire after helping with the war effort in London.

A modern woman, her views are foreign to those of her friends. But her passion and ambition put off men, particularly that of Robert Carne, a handsome farmer who she loves to hate.

This three-parter stars Anna Maxwell Martin and airs in February 2011 on BBC One and BBC HD.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

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S1:E3. Episode Three
Air Date: March 6, 2011
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S1:E3. South Riding: Episode 3
Air Date: May 15, 2011
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S1:E2. Episode Two
Air Date: February 27, 2011

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Dorothy Rabinowitz

Apr 29, 2011

Season 1 Review: These are, in short, characters with a long literary-and Hollywood-pedigree. Which makes all the more impressive the vividness and mystery they bring to this series (adapted by Andrew Davies from a 1936 novel by Winifred Holtby)--thanks, needless to say, to extraordinarily seductive performances. Read full review

David Hinckley

May 2, 2011

Season 1 Review: South Riding creates memorable characters, particularly Burton and Carne, and it's beautifully filmed. Read full review

May 2, 2011

Season 1 Review: South Riding has everything you could want from a Masterpiece event: perfect period details, a forlornly gray surf, a swelling soundtrack, disputes over crunchy-gravel real estate, whistling trains and black-tie dinners in hotels, a believable and compelling story involving multiple characters and plots and a faithfulness to its original material that allows for a textured, even sorrowful, bleakness. Read full review

Mike Hale

Apr 29, 2011

Season 1 Review: Mr. Davies appears to have struggled with the material...But his dialogue is as sharp as ever, and there are excellent scenes between Sarah and Mrs. Beddows (Penelope Wilton), her champion on the school board, and Sarah and Robert (David Morrissey), the conservative landowner she wins to her side (in more ways than one). Read full review

Mary McNamara

May 2, 2011

Season 1 Review: For fans of the canon, South Riding is "Masterpiece" comfort food, enjoyable enough in the moment, but melting away to nothing but sugar and fat by morning. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Apr 28, 2011

Season 1 Review: As is, South Riding (named for its fictional community in Yorkshire) is a handsome production, but not an especially memorable one--conjuring only a few moments worthy of the "Masterpiece" pedigree before riding into the sunset. Read full review

David Wiegand

Apr 26, 2011

Season 1 Review: If only Holtby and screenwriter Andrew Davies hadn't larded the story with so many cliches, not to mention people who seem like second-rate versions of characters created by Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 20, 2011
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  S1:E3. Episode Three
  Air Date: March 6, 2011
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  S1:E3. South Riding: Episode 3
  Air Date: May 15, 2011
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  S1:E2. Episode Two
  Air Date: February 27, 2011
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  S1:E2. South Riding: Episode 2
  Air Date: May 8, 2011
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  S1:E1. Episode One
  Air Date: February 20, 2011