Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles

I've just finished watching it, and totally enjoyed it, the girl playing Tess was utterly utterly wonderful, what a brilliant piece of casting there.

I could not believe that Nessa was her mum here, real versatility. I adore period costume dramas but was unfamiliar with this story, it started off as they normally do, sweet and mellow, nice and serene, then came the big twist, and the darker side of this drama begins to come through, I know i've only seen the first part, but I hope and i'm sure that the rest of this serial will continue in the same fantastic form as part 1.

I wish I knew how good previous versions of this were, but I shan't watch until i've seen the end of this Utterly brilliant so far :-)

9/10.