Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
This is TV as a triumphant act of resistance.Suranne Jones as Anne Lister in Gentleman Jack. Photograph: Aimee Spinks/BBC/Lookout Point/HBO. These include 22-year-old Chichi, an illustration of how coming out is not a one-time thing but an…
As a romp, Gentleman Jack works fine. Jones is a sufficiently swaggering presence to make her family’s and villagers’ blend of fascination, delight and awe as they behold her believable (ditto her dutiful sister’s swelling resentment of a…
The series, a co-production between the BBC and HBO, has been created by Yorkshire’s own Sally Wainwright, who previously gave us Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax , with a team of female writers, producers and directors. Anne Lister…
