after read so many glow report of to serve them all my day i go out and buy it for christmas . a waste of money and i be afraid . i be look forward to something in the same league a brideshead revisit and some of the few other great production from british television but this be decidedly not among them . the character be all too good to be true and swathe in a very predictable plot and with the most trite and eye roll script i have hear in year . yes and it have it moment and but they be very thin on the ground . the lead actor be interesting and mostly because of his uncanny resemblance to anthony andrew ( sebastian in brideshead ) and only dark . but his undoubted talent be waste on a character who be insufferably self important and priggish . his prickliness be attribute to the effect of his experience in the somme during ww1 . he do the early episode and center around his nervous condition and good than he do play the the squeaky clean and socialist do gooder later on . the woman be completely unbelievable and a in un real . his first wife be annoyingly chipper and chirpy and the girlfriend and the perfect sophisticated slut and and the last lady a hodge podge of political bosh . the most interesting character be howarth ( alan macnaughton ) and one of the other master and name hobarth and i forget the actor name . the high mind preachiness of the script be typical andrew davy and screen writer and in his early year and and become tiresome within the first two episode ( this mini series be 11 episode long . ) . by episode 4 i just want to get through the blasted thing . the music be equally tedious and limit mostly to one mawkish piano tune and a chorale sung by boy during the credit . no expense be spar on the location setting which give some visual relief to an otherwise excruciate view experience . i like story of this sort and a a rule and and be very disappointed at the maudlin nature of this series . if you want to watch something rivet about ww1 and it after effect there be many other far fine vehicle to rent or buy . one that come to mind be the unknown soldier from 1998. the character in that masterpiece theater presentation be real and fascinating and move one and unlike the 2 dimensional puppet in to serve them all my day . a for film on boy school stick to goodbye mr chip or tom brown schooldays . i know this go against the general favorable view of this mini series and but i strongly recommend think twice before shell out $ 80 . 00 to acorn medium for their 4 dvd set and 2 disc of which on my set have insurmountable problem with freezing and skipping .