Anne Lister’s diaries reveal her to be a complicated, often unpleasant, woman. In the show these traits are toned down
ANNE LISTER turns up in Halifax in 1832 with all the swaggering elan of a cowboy riding into town. Dressed in black—including a great-coat and a top hat—she bosses around her father and sister, faces off with the neighbours, reminisces about her female lovers, extracts rent from tenants, commandeers a stagecoach and shoots a horse.
“Gentleman Jack” is brighter and more engaging than most period dramas. Filmed in and around the real Shibden Hall, the show gives a true sense of time and place, from the glamour of country estates to the grim reality of local mines. Ms Jones brings a steely determination to her character that is compelling to watch. Sophie Rundle offers a suitable contrast as Walker, at turns spoilt, frustratingly fragile and desperate for affection.
Yet “Gentleman Jack” strives too hard to make its central character likeable. Lister’s diaries reveal her to be a complicated, often unpleasant, woman, yet in the show these traits are toned down.
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