Als Ross Poldark (Aidan Turner) aus dem amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg in seine Heimat Cornwall zurückkehrt, muss er feststellen, dass nichts mehr so ist wie früher: Sein Vater ist tot, der Zinnminenbetrieb der Familie wurde längst geschlossen und seine Geliebte hat sich mit seinem Cousin verlobt.
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I have a habit of checking out source material before diving into a new show. Most times it doesn't pan out because I'm not interested enough to invest time or I prefer the medium of tv. Sometimes the universe gifts you with a little nugget that you keep around for the rest of your life. In this instance, it was a big beautiful shining nugget. I took a gander at the first book before watching the first episode and at that point, I knew that this was one of those series that you were better off reading before watching. Before series one came to a close I'd finished the first two books, which the 8 episodes covered. By the time the year was out I had finished the first 7 Poldark books. I'm so grateful for stumbling upon these, immensely human and, deeply flawed characters that often falter and fall from grace but aren't so far removed from us, the viewer, as to be unrealistic or inherently Literary. Demelza and Ross are some of the best-written, well-developed characters I've ever had the pleasure of reading. The show is great on its own; enjoyable, interesting without being gimmicky, and importantly, heartbreaking without being cheap. I recommend the books if you're even remotely interested or have ever entertained the idea of maybe one day having a skim through one of them. It's worth your time and will increase your enjoyment of the characters and storylines tenfold.
It's the new Downton Abbey but so so SOOOOO much better.
At first, I liked the series for nice sceneries, interesting characters and promising troubles they try to confront. But then "baddies" became more and more demonized and smart protagonist just starts doing stupid things one after other and reacting on all enemy lunges with "well what could we do". Poldark is presented to us as too nice and equitable guy to do bad to antagonist while he does quite immoral things to beloved. And it doesn't make him a complex character but the illogical and hypocrite one. The antagonists aren't any deep at all — they just do bad things and have no background. Most of this things feel like a lazy scripting. The idea of series is quite primitive: good guys dramatically struggle until the bad guys are randomly defeated in the end without their participation.
Worth watching beside its flaws. The series starts slow paced and the direction is not the best, but it improves with every season. Imo season 4 is the strongest one. Overall a strong 7/10.
God awful. Just absolutely atrocious.