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[meganbmoore]

So, is all of Forsyte Saga about this guy who dumped his wife and daughter for the governess, and has dumped the governess and is proposing to another chick?

Because...uhm...I kinda really like BBC period productions and i've heard good things about this, but I find this guy incredibly boring.  On top of hating him on principle.  (You take the woman you just had sex with in with you when you tell your wife that you're dumping her?  Die now.)

ETA:  Ok, wait, maybe the guy who ditched his wife for the governess isn't the extremely hateful guy.  Which would make the hateful guy's behavior towards the nice young girl who is the daughter of the guy who dumped his wife a bit less horrible.  This is what happens when you're kinda bored by something...

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[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

You take the woman you just had sex with in with you when you tell your wife that you're dumping her?

Well, so long as you're sure to shout "NO COMEUPPANCE!"

[isweedan]

Nope!
There are many many more players in this game.
There will be whole episodes where they're not even mentioned. I watched it two years ago so things are fuzzy beyond fuzzy. I remember Soames and the woman who marries him but not for love and the man who she falls in love with who does crazy things for her and the children of guy who dumped his wife and their aunts and uncles and ... then things get even more complicated?
Need further proof that there are unnumbered complexities ahead? Check out the imdb and see the cast list - it's massive.

It's like the original costume drama soap opera. Apparently. The 60s version is the entire reason Masterpiece Theater exists.

[morwen_peredhil]

I hated it and barely made it through part one. Damian Lewis did such a great job of being hateful that I couldn't bear to watch any more than that.

[the-sun-is-up.livejournal.com]

So, is all of Forsyte Saga about this guy who dumped his wife and daughter for the governess, and has dumped the governess and is proposing to another chick?

Wait... what? I think you're confusing Soames and Jolyon. Jolyon is the one who dumped his wife and daughter to run away with his governess, who he lives with for some time and has kids with and eventually marries once his first wife dies. Soames is the red-haired guy who is like, the devil incarnate and is so horrible to his wife that she cheats on his with the hot architect guy.

As for the series, it's more generally about the whole family, although it does tend to focus on Soames's life getting more and more miserable, entirely due to his own awfulness.

[mycenae.livejournal.com]

The only thing I remember about The Forsyte Saga is that it taught me about marital rape.

And I think there was lots of family drama drawn out over at least two generations. Eh, I'm not really sure it's worth watching.

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

What I mainly know about the Forsyte Saga is that the writer Anna Quindlin absolutely adored it as a young reader, and was painfully stunned when she went to college and made the mistake of saying so in an English class, prompting her asshole professor to pound on his desk and scornfully shout, "Galsworthy."

Or something like that. Liberal arts education has really changed, man. I've had plenty of professors who were willing to share some measure of their personal feelings on various cultural phenomena, but none who tried to shame me for liking a book they didn't.