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Death Comes to Pemberley( 2013)

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Death Comes to Pemberley is a 2013 three-part British television drama based on P. D. James' 2011 novel of the same name, a murder mystery based on the style and characters of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. June 1803, six years after the union of Elizabeth and Mr Darcy: one evening, George Wickham and his wife Lydia are travelling by carriage to Pemberley for a ball with Captain Denny. Wickham and Denny have a dispute, and leave in anger. The two men disappear into the woodland, where Lydia hears two gunshots.

  1. Juliette Towhidi

    Creator

Series Cast

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    Matthew Rhys

    Fitzwilliam Darcy

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    Anna Maxwell Martin

    Elizabeth Darcy

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    Matthew Goode

    George Wickham

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    Trevor Eve

    Sir Selwyn Hardcastle

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    Jenna Coleman

    Lydia Wickham

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    Oliver Rix

    Cartwright

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    Tom Ward

    Colonel Fitzwilliam

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    Eleanor Tomlinson

    Georgiana Darcy

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    James Norton

    Henry Alveston

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    Nichola Burley

    Louisa Bidwell

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    Kevin Eldon

    Dr. McFee

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    Philip Martin Brown

    Mr. Bidwell

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    Oliver Maltman

    George Pratt

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    Joanna Scanlan

    Mrs. Reynolds

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    Jennifer Hennessy

    Mrs. Bidwell

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    Lewis Rainer

    Will Bidwell

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    Tom Canton

    Captain Denny

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    Mariah Gale

    Mrs. Younge

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    Tom Raven

    Constable Mason

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    Louisa-May Parker

    Mrs. Donovan

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    Alexander Bradshaw

    Young Darcy

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    Royston Mayoh

    Stoughton

Current Season

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Miniseries

2013 | 3 Episodes

June 1803, six years after the union of Elizabeth and Mr Darcy: one evening, George Wickham and his wife Lydia are travelling by carriage to Pemberley for a ball with Captain Denny. Wickham and Denny have a dispute, and leave in anger. The two men disappear into the woodland, where Lydia hears two gunshots.

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A review by Peter McGinn

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Written by Peter McGinn on Sun Jul 03 2022
This non-Austen sequel to Pride and Prejudice was quite good. It featured an intelligent rendering of the familiar story and characters of the original, but you would expect no less from the PD James novel. Since I watch a lot of British programming, sec=verbal of the actors were familiar to me, and the ensemble cast stayed in their lanes and put on a great collective performance. It must have been fun for them and the director, for they were able to reenact familiar scenes from Pride and Prejudice as memory flashbacks. There were traces i=of character growth here and there, but charac...

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Facts

Status

Ended

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Type

Miniseries

Original Language

English

Keywords

  • england
  • based on novel or book
  • servant
  • sequel
  • romance
  • miniseries
  • period drama
  • housekeeper
  • estate
  • gentleman
  • costume drama
  • murder mystery
  • drawing room
  • upstairs downstairs
  • 19th century
  • empire fashion
  • georgian or regency era