Memoirous

This mini-series first aired in 1994—before streaming, so I HAD to make sure I was in front of the TV to catch all 7 episodes. I wasn’t familiar with the story, but loved dramas and literature and period pieces. Middlemarch by George Eliot was a wide-ranging novel following the lives of several residents and newcomers to a proverbial town somewhere in middle England right before the railroads came through and at the rise of Industrialization, which upended the 19 th century. Virtually everything was about to change. At the center of the novel is Dorothea Brooks, a woman you admire and at the same time want to slap silly. Her idealism is ambitious and totally lacking in common sense. She seems to stumble from good intention to good intention while sinking in a quagmire of her own making. She aims for an ideal of love by marrying a stodgy cleric given to vain academic pursuits, hoping that she might be able, by proxy, to expand her own knowledge, I get it. Women of that time period ...