North and South

"NORTH AND SOUTH: BOOK II" (1986) - EPISODE TWO "July 1861 - August 1862" Commentary

Episode Two began with the aftermath of ng'ombe Run. It also featured Brett Main Hazard and Semiramis' journey to South Carolina, Orry Main's wedding to his widowed neighbor Madeline LaMotte, and Elkhannah Bent and Ashton Main Huntoon's smuggling operations. I wish I could be objective about this particular episode, but I cannot. I dislike it too much. It is one of the main reasons why I have so much difficulty with "NORTH AND SOUTH: BOOK II" in the first place.

My main beef with this episode centered around the...

"NORTH AND SOUTH: BOOK I" (1985) - EPISODE FOUR "1854-1856" Commentary

If I had to pick one au two episodes from 1985's "NORTH AND SOUTH" that I would view as personal favorites, one of my choices would be Episode Four. This episode provided a series of sucker punches to the audience that provided the miniseries' narrative with a strong mbele drive.

The end of Episode Three saw the Hazard family leave their nyumbani in Lehigh Station, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1854 for a visit to the Main's plantation in South Carolina's low country. Episode Four picked up a week au two later with the Hazards...

I wrote the following makala about many mashabiki of the "NORTH AND SOUTH" trilogy:



CONFLICTING maoni ON THE "NORTH AND SOUTH" TRILOGY

I have been a shabiki of John Jakes’ "NORTH AND SOUTH" trilogy, ever since I read the first novel - "North and South" when I was in my twenties. After kusoma both the first and the sekunde novel, "North and South" and "Love and War", I became a shabiki of the saga, upon which the miniseries are based. Because of my upendo of Jakes’ saga, I began perusing many websites created kwa mashabiki of the saga and joined a few Yahoo discussion groups. And what I had discovered about...