PBS's Cranford: It Takes an Eccentric Village
Gossip and gross-out humor blend with Masterpiece's high acting
It’s safe to say that perhaps Cranford’s overriding theme is the conflict between modes of duty and obligation, and how our drive to care for others can be a source of both comfort and hand-wringing distress. Although Cranford is directed by Simon Curtis with the kind of effortless storytelling drive and eye for beautiful detail that honors the genteel mix of comedy and drama it comes from, you might be surprised at just how much hardship — physiological, emotional or financial — upends all Gaskell’s characters: the poor, the middle class and the well-off. These stories have happy endings, for sure, but they are made all the sweeter, perhaps, by everyone’s ability to deal with the death and grief that are, as usual, any community’s least-welcome visitors.
CRANFORD | PBS | Sundays, May 4, 11 & 18 | 9 p.m.
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