Blandings: Series 2 [DVD]

This is a fantastic series with a phenomenal cast! I wasn't sure how the change of actor for Beach would work but Tim Vine is excellent. I wish there were more than 2 series but at least what we have is top quality!

The series has lost the essential Wodehouse-ness.

Blandings makes me smile from ear to ear whenever I watch it. What a lovely production - the whole cast are marvellous (and the views are beautiful!). Lovely musical moments as well.

Happy, I like the programne

I know some people don't like this BBC production of Blandings, feeling it is not true to the Wodehouse's stories. In my experience, tv or film – or even radio plays – too true to written stories seldom make a good production, so I'll let that go.What the BBC has ended up with is a very well-produced series that had me laughing out loud on several occasions. The characters are farcical caricatures that are interesting and charmingly predictable once you get to know them, and one does get to know them rather quickly through their idiosyncrasies, catchphrases and typical behaviour.Casting appears to me to be spot on – perhaps not exactly the way they are portrayed in the book, but each actor owns their own character from the first episode, their acting choices consistently carried on through both series.If you don't know the Wodehouse stories but enjoy farce and situational comedy as it can only be done in Britain – or if you know the stories and are willing to forgive or ignore any differences with the written word – this is highly entertaining, as it would be even on repeated viewings.

Timothy Spall is superb in this very funny series, well worth buying

As a longtime P.G. Wodehouse devotee, I’ve greatly enjoyed the Blandings Castle series. It has been, for the most part, top-notch. A bit zany at times, but all in all a real treat (especially in comparison to what else is on).The first season was better than the second, that is for sure. The second season will lose a star or two due to playing fast and loose with the older stories. The low point being “Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best” that is chockfull of cheap-shots and mean-spirited stereotypical mockery of Christian people that Plum would never have gone for. I could also do without the innuendos and double entendres that got more pronounced as the series progressed. Wodehouse wrote with a genius nuance, where the show at times feels that it is swinging a mallet.When it is said and done this is still one of the best shows on television. Episodes such as the series finale as worth the price of admission. Each episode is beautifully shot and wonderfully directed. Here is to hoping for a third series and that Guy Andrews will stick with the spirit of the originals rather than going for what plays elsewhere.

The books and stories by P G Wodehouse are very funny. His use of the English language is inimitable.Films and television series of Wodehouse are considerably less successful, but the team here make a valiant effort. There were one or two laugh-out-loud moments. Timothy Spall makes a delightful Clarence. I feared Jennifer Saunders would overact as usual, but is slightly more restrained by the directors.I'd love to see the Ralph Richardson and Derek Nimmo series again, but the BBC has wiped them.