Redundant and unnecessary.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

I had not read the book and I'm ashamed to say I haven't read many of the classics but why read them when I can watch them so beautifully? I loved watching how each character changed in the duration of the four episodes and wished it was longer. You really felt Margaret's disdain and then loyalty to the union workers plight. It's like she really was looking from the outside and seeing both sides. Well done!

From the title, "North & South," I thought this was about the American Civil War, but it is not. It is based on the novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1855. A minister and his wife and daughter, Margaret, leave rural southern England and move to the industrial north, to a mill town. The story is about their difficult adjustment, their friendship with cotton mill owner Mr Thorton, and Margaret's friendship with mill worker and union organizer Nicholas (played by Brendan Coyle, Mr Bates on "Downton Abbey") and his daughter Bessie, who is sick from "too much fluff in me lungs" (played by Anna Maxwell Martin, Esther in "Bleak House" and Elizabeth in "Death Comes to Pemberley"). The story is nuanced, and realistic, in that it shows the difficulties of running the mill as well as the hardships of the workers. The characters are three dimensional, not one side all good, one all bad. Richard Armitage is tremendous as Mr Thorton. Everyone in it is great. It is well done, but it is a very, very sad story until the very end. I haven't read the book, so I don't know how faithful the mini-series is. I watched it on Netflix, using closed captions most of the time, the regional accents can be difficult.

Spoiler at the end!!!The focus of this series is not on romance, but on its beautiful story that is about so much more than just romantic LOVE between two persons. The focus is on its message that you need to look at things from different perspectives and try to understand the other sides as well. It is a heartwarming story, with real and complex characters which are very likable (except for one annoying character - John's sister...I hated her), it has beautiful and well put together romance aspect (if you consider that it is not placed in modern era) filled with those subtle gentle caresses...looks...moments. It also has heartbreaking scenes...it managed to make me cry.Everything developed with just the right speed, it was captivating, direction was excellent, it has beautiful scenery...The actors are absolutely amazing !!! and Richard Armitage is breathtaking.PURE PERFECTIONI could tell you so much more about this, describe things that I LOVED, but that would take away from it - you better see it yourself.This will be REwatched many times!!!! And the book will be read too !!!!*I recommend this* to anyone who likes period dramas but also to ones who are open to new things. My MALE friend watched this with me and he was amazed as well. :)10/10 ISN'T HIGH ENOUGH for this masterpiece!!!!!..............................................................SPOILER :The Last scene in front of the train while they are sitting and he looks at her gently and with so much love...is the most romantic one I've ever seen...and nothing will ever be just as good...BY the end I WAS left starving for more....and more.... - that is maybe the only flaw I found !!!! it needs more kisses and stuff...damn it :(

It is with no doubt different than an ordinary American love story as there are so many already- obviously you would say since it's from BBC. It is deeper, more subtle -subtlety: that's what's missing in today's American TV shows, and more real.In many ways I think this movie can be qualified as a good one: the characters do not completely change their opinions towards the factory although they do evolve. The love they have for each other doesn't make them change what they think or how they act, but more their ways of seeing thing: they both become more and more understanding towards the other point of view without totally refuting their own and that is new and refreshing in cinema I think. Also it shows a part of the Great Britain I hadn't seen anywhere else; and the way they contrast the ways of living in the south and the north is instructive, it shows how work can really shape a region.Moreover, I think that the cameraman's work is brilliant! The compositions of the scenes are so well done! And the way there's always cotton (this death kisser) around or snow (this pure lovely thing) is very interesting.Anyways I won't expand myself any further on the subject because I don't know if I can stop but good job to the BBC its movies are always so well done (from what I've seen so far) and so fascinating (here I go again, I really am stopping now).