Product: Brideshead Revisited [VHS] (1982)
Rating: 5.0
One of the most beautiful things ever put on the television machine
The acting, filming, directing, sets, costumes; everything about this series is wonderful. If you don't know the story, it isn't about much of anything; it's not like, say, "I, Claudius" where you can say it is about the intrigues withing the Roman claudian family. It is about some english upper class people going about their lives. Their lives are more or less ordinary (if privilaged), and the conflicts and experiences they have reveal much about ourselves; their truths are the truths of life.For what it is worth, one of the dangers of this series is that you might want to buy a tweed wardrobe and affect the manner of an upper class british toff.