Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - on TV!

Good fun. I can tell that my teenage self would have eaten this stuff up. Some characters were a little overacted but on the whole solid. Only a little bit of trimming from the book, nothing too egregious—although I would have liked to see more from Waterloo. But overall the pace felt better in the show than in the book.

Some really strange editing choice as well, especially in the later episodes. Hard cuts, jarring stuff. The editors don't seem to know quite how to end an episode; the credits always just sort of leap up out of nowhere. Maybe the producers were expecting that people would watch this as like a box set without interstitial credits or something.