Monthly Archiv: December, 2024

Rosamunde Pilcher Winter + Summer Solstice COMPLETE mini-series

Rosamunde Pilcher Winter Solstice + Summer Solstice COMPLETE mini-series

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354213/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0785054/

Double bill of television dramas based on the novels by Rosamunde Pilcher. In ‘Winter Solstice’ (2003), Elfrida Phipps (Sinead Cusack) has recently lost her husband. Moving into a new cottage, she begins to make friends with her neighbours, the Blundell family. Joined by her niece Carrie (Sophie Sch’tt), Elfrida seems to be putting her life back in order, a process that is interrupted when a tragic accident befalls the Blundells. As they all retreat to a Scottish estate for Christmas to get over their grief, a chance acquaintance from Carrie’s past and a sense of belonging that the friends thought they had lost forever leads to the best Christmas of their lives. The sequel, ‘Summer Solstice’ (2005) is set in the Scottish Highlands where Elfrida and Oscar have settled into a quiet life, but Carrie and Sam’s relationship comes under pressure when a seductive writer sets her sights on Sam.

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Crown Prosecutor COMPLETE S01

Crown Prosecutor COMPLETE S01

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111930/

Each episode generally featured a primary plot centred on an unfolding court case, along with two subplots that advanced the development of the show’s cast of characters.

Sometimes the subplots involved other, typically less serious, court cases’such as the vandalism charges brought against people who ate a chocolate sculpture in episode seven. But these subplots often were entirely outside the courtroom and served to reveal different facets of the prosecutor’s lives. Sticky living arrangements, new romance, old flames, and professional temptation were all featured in the series. Though these plots allowed viewers a glimpse into the prosecutors’ lives to a much greater degree than would be possible on the somewhat comparable Law & Order, the character development never expanded to the level of a soap opera.

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