Product: Brideshead Revisited [VHS] (1982)
Rating: 5.0
The Best of the Best
Masterpiece Theatre was a fountain of cool water during the extended drought plaguing television for the last 50 years. Brideshead Revisited was one of the finest drinks served at that fountain.If you watched the series, you already know that you want to have your own copy. The restoration is not perfect, but it does satisfy. There are some scenes which are of noticably poorer video quality, and that is somewhat jarring when watching on a HD screen. But the technical problems are insignificant. The acting, the staging, and the faithfulness to Waugh's work of art simply overwhelm. Re-watching the series is like a week spent with a best friend you have not seen for 25 years.If you have never seen the series, you are in for a treat. As a work of true social history, or as merely an escape into another world and time, Brideshead will take you on a journey of unfulfilled love, wit and pathos.