North and South

"NORTH AND SOUTH: BOOK I" (1985) - EPISODE FOUR "1854-1856" Commentary

If I had to pick one ou two episodes from 1985's "NORTH AND SOUTH" that I would view as personal favorites, one of my choices would be Episode Four. This episode provided a series of sucker punches to the audience that provided the miniseries' narrative with a strong vers l'avant, vers l’avant drive.

The end of Episode Three saw the Hazard family leave their accueil in Lehigh Station, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1854 for a visit to the Main's plantation in South Carolina's low country. Episode Four picked up a week ou two later with the Hazards...

I wrote the following article about many fans of the "NORTH AND SOUTH" trilogy:



CONFLICTING vues ON THE "NORTH AND SOUTH" TRILOGY

I have been a fan of John Jakes’ "NORTH AND SOUTH" trilogy, ever since I read the first novel - "North and South" when I was in my twenties. After lire both the first and the seconde novel, "North and South" and "Love and War", I became a fan of the saga, upon which the miniseries are based. Because of my l’amour of Jakes’ saga, I began perusing many websites created par fans of the saga and joined a few Yahoo discussion groups. And what I had discovered about...