The poor girl’s time is near and she has a rough go of labor, screaming through the bulk of her delivery, and coming so close to death her deplorable husband started considering “suitable replacements'. Haven’t’ we really had more than enough sexual assault on this show? Morwenna’s story continues to be the most compelling thing about Poldark Season 3, even if it does contain the single individual element (Whitworth) most likely to make me physically hurl something at my television. Without his wife and son, because he is petty as hell. George starts making plans to spend the bulk of his time in London. He’s running as the big “change” candidate, which would be funny if the fact that he is simultaneously cutting wages, firing people and just generally starving the local populace weren’t so sad.īut, of course George does win the local seat in Parliament because this show hates me and anything that might bring me joy. Unsatisfied, George swears him to secrecy, and throws himself back into his plans to win the local seat in Parliament.

Dwight, who clearly hates George, is nevertheless professional to him, saying that he can’t tell for sure one way or the other if Valentine was early or just born on time because Elizabeth ( conveniently) fell down the stairs. He summons Dwight and asks him all sorts of awkward questions about how you can tell if, say, someone had a baby that was supposed to be premature but maybe wasn’t, and how someone else might figure out if that were the case. It’s weeks later, and George is still hardcore obsessing about Aunt Agatha’s last words and the question of Valentine’s true parentage. George is ample evidence that politicians are generally terrible. There’s no joy, for anyone, and the episode’s most uplifting storyline centers around the reaffirmation that two young people still love one another even when they’re separated and one of them is forced to endure horrific abuse on a daily basis. And sassy old Aunt Agatha sadly meets her maker, but not before she tips George off that little Valentine might not be his.Įverything basically feels as though it’s falling apart in this episode of Poldark.

Elsewhere, Morwenna’s marriage to Whitworth is a study in misery. Sir Francis Bassett tries to convince Ross to throw his hat into the ring for the empty MP seat, but he declines, insisting that he can’t be beholden to anyone’s interests but his own.

Previously on Poldark : Dwight and Caroline get married publically, but their “wedding” just serves as an excuse to talk politics. Courtesy of Robert Viglasky/Mammoth Screen for BBC and MASTERPIECE

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