Comments on: Watch: Teaser Trailer For ‘Parade’s End’ Starring Benedict Cumberbatch & Rebecca Hall

By: dee

dee — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:50:23 +0000

looks great.

By: i seriously hope you guys ross douthat

i seriously hope you guys ross douthat — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:50:23 +0000

I just wish the series had been longer — unusually, because I think most HBO fare goes on too long. All of the actors in this are terrific, but it did feel somehow structurally unbalanced. Also, the first five minutes or so I couldn't deal with. Rebecca Hall's first scene, and her first meeting with Benny C — just no. That isn't her fault: the train carriage bit that they keep flashing back to is just wrong and never happened. I thought Hall was brilliant ftr and can't really blame anyone for focussing on her (amirite guys).

By: CARY

CARY — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:50:23 +0000

I'm not sure what to think about Hall here and in Lay the Favorite. At first, I thought she was terrible in both but she can't be…or can she? Probably it's because both characters are so unlikable and annoying? I don't know… I had such a high expectation on her.

By: Olly

Olly — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:50:23 +0000

Cumberbatch is wonderful in this production. Hall too. But Stoppard's scripts did focus far too much on Hall which in turn unbalances the love story. Clemens gets little to work with but her scenes with Cumberbatch are moving and I'd have liked to have seen more of them together. Hall does chew the scenery but its such an over the top part its hard not too. I;d have also liked more scenes at the trenches. Stoppard was adamant that it wasnt a story about WW1 but those moments are some of the most powerful in the series and they come far to late in the story. A flawed masterpiece. If the producers could have got Stoppard to stop focusing so much on Hall it could have been so much better.

By: Borj

Borj — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:50:23 +0000

Rebecca Hall is a LARGE HAM in this. Cumberbatch is blonde… BLONDE!!!

By: kitty

kitty — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:50:22 +0000

Benedict Cumberbatch as Tiegiens is, as always, exceptional. He carries the story as grandly as the great Groby Tree. Although Stoppard, or White, (whichever) did skew the story toward Rebecca Hall's Sylvia, I don't think she was meant to be that sympathetic. But Hall was so terrific, it's understandable. Adelaide Clemens as Valentine Wannop did not get as much screen time as I would have hoped, especially after that early enchanting scene between Tiejens and Valentine in the mist. I began by being on team Sylvia, but by the end of the series, I was team Valentine all the way. It's a wonderful love story disguised as a war story. If you enjoy intelligent and engaging entertainment this one is for you.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:50:22 +0000

I am looking forward to this.