The Long Song
This three-part miniseries based on Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel about the end of slavery in Jamaica follows July (Tamara Lawrance), an indomitable, young slave who works on a sugarcane plantation with her detestable mistress, Caroline Mortimer (Hayley Atwell). Their lives change with the arrival of a new overseer, Robert Goodwin (Jack Lowden) who sets out to improve life on the plantation.
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In The Long Song July Struggles With Love And Survival
brought us four new shows in January, including the powerful mini-series The Long Song
. Set during the final days of slavery in 19th-century Jamaica, the series tells the story of the hardships and survival of plantation slave, July. Each week, we re bringing you a new installment of a series of character studies on July from guest contributor Amanda-Rae Prescott. These articles will cover the events of episode two, so if you haven t watched it yet, catch up on GBH Passport.
Episode 1 ends with July’s ominous voiceover that her story is not an easy one. In Episode 2, July’s story returns with a leap forward to 1838, when Queen Victoria’s official decree ended slavery in Jamaica. For many, the end was mostly symbolic because the decree didn’t dismantle the inequality in the plantation system. July didn’t receive £31 (over $2,500
Premiering Sunday, January 31 at 10/9c
A series based on Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel about the end of slavery in Jamaica.
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More This three-part miniseries based on Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel about the end of slavery in Jamaica follows July (Tamara Lawrance), an indomitable, young slave who works on a sugarcane plantation with her detestable mistress, Caroline Mortimer (Hayley Atwell). Their lives change with the arrival of a new overseer, Robert Goodwin (Jack Lowden) who sets out to improve life on the plantation.
This three-part miniseries based on Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel about the end of slavery in Jamaica follows July (Tamara Lawrance), an indomitable, young slave who works on a sugarcane plantation with her detestable mistress, Caroline Mortimer (Hayley Atwell). Their lives change with the arrival of a new overseer, Robert Goodwin (Jack Lowden) who sets out to improve life on the plantation.
The Long Song Disrupts PBS Masterpiece s Typical Slate By Putting Black Characters First: TV Review
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“The Long Song” knows what an audience might expect from a period drama airing on the BBC, as it did in the UK in 2018, or under the PBS Masterpiece banner, as it will in the US starting on January 31. The camera, helmed with a steady hand by director Mahalia Belo, pans across still life scenes of porcelain curios and rumpled silks in a manse surrounded by gently swaying palm trees. “The life of a white missus on a Jamaican plantation,” a narrator (Doña Croll) intones, “be surely full of tribulation from the scarcity of beef to the want of a fashionable hat.” Within seconds, the piercing screech of that “white missus” shatters the idyllic scene, and the acidic streak of sarcasm laden in the narrator’s words comes more clearly into focus. “If that be the story you want to hea
January 22, 2021
Masterpiece miniseries premieres Sunday, January 31 at 10 p.m. on THIRTEEN
Set on a sugarcane plantation during the end of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, the
Masterpiece miniseries
King Charles III), a young enslaved woman with an indomitable spirit, and her detestable mistress, Caroline Mortimer (Hayley Atwell,
The Avengers).
Their lives change with the arrival of the charming new overseer, Robert Goodwin (Jack Lowden,
Dunkirk), who sets out to improve the plantation. The drama unfolds during the transition from slavery to freedom in Jamaica and is an adaptation of Caribbean British writer Andrea Levy’s fifth novel, which won the Walter Scott award and was shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.