Poldark
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Ross says the time has come to return Ned to Honduras … and I AGREE.
We could have spent this final season having some excellent character development.
Were on our fifth year with these people.
It remained a touchy subject at the time of our story (roughly 1800).
Ross acts in a very Rossian way and REFUSES.
Any hopes for an easy path for them (has anything ever been easy inPoldark?)
Was this supposed to be a huge twist?
This self-same letter is carelessly cast onto the table and they leave.
Of course Cecily finds it and gives it to Ross.
(Ned is arrested anyway and charged with high treason, because why not?)
CAROLINE, BE A HIGH-POWERED LAWYER INSTEAD OF PLANNING AWFUL PARTIES.
Can we get aPoldarkspin-off where Caroline moves to London and becomes an attorney in 1805?
Oh, the first woman to earn a law degree in England didnt do ituntil 1888?
Sounds like a patriarchy problem and not an awesome spin-off problem.
Meanwhile, back at the farm, way more interesting things are happening.
Tess is stirring up trouble because theres this new paper money and everyone is side-eyeing it.
Tess talks to her friend about making the miners restless by having forged bank notes made.
Do we not know a man with the needful skillage?
asks Tess, and I feel like Im inCold Comfort Farmall of a sudden.
Tess continues trying to rile people up, and Demelza demands to know why shes behaving this way.
Tess basically says EAT THE RICH!
which Demelza points out doesnt really apply here, as she is instead just ripping off poor people.
Demelza says ENOUGH in a stone-cold voice and Ive never been more attracted to her.
Its possible she has terrified Tess, because she is delightfully intimidating in this moment.
Morwenna is rightfully furious with him and makes him return John Conan.
The speechless forwarding of the Lady Whitworth/Morwenna dynamic was my favorite of the episode.
We so rarely see shades of humanity in the villains ofPoldarkthat its a tremendous relief when it does happen.
The follow-up to this scene is a disappointment, to say the least.
But now she has finally given herself space to grieve, so her heart is free to love Drake.
And that she was able to move through those emotions in less than one day?
We end with Wickham warning Ross that if Ned falls, he takes Ross with him.
A sufficiently climactic end note!
Will Demelza come to all our homes while were slacking off and coldly say ENOUGH?
(Outlook not so good.)
