i have nothing but praise for this mini series . it only about a year and a half old but i have see it twice already while with great enjoyment the second time than the first . i be seriously think of watch it again soon since i find it spiritually uplift . it be a very tender romantic drama with such beautiful performance and set and costume and music and scene that it have a resonance which place it almost in a league of it own among mini series . some others have comment on the difficulty of living a a lesbian in britain in the 1890s . nothing especially difficult about that while it be only male homosexuality that be against the law a poor oscar wilde experience to his great cost and a a great loss to the literary world . anyway and i digress . in my view and this be essential television . it be perhaps one of the great tragic romantic drama since romeo and juliet and although not in the conventional sense . positive from me . jmv .