Parade's End
Parade's End Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.7 |
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About
"A repressed love triangle as an empire collapses"
Set in the last gasp of Edwardian England, this five-part miniseries follows a stiff, honorable civil servant trapped in a miserable marriage while quietly in love with a younger suffragette, as the old social order buckles and then WWI arrives to finish the job. It's dense, literary, and slow-burning, driven by clipped dialogue, repressed emotion, and a real sense of a world ending in real time. Tom Stoppard's adapted script rewards close attention rather than passive viewing, and the performances carry long silences that would sink a lesser production.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall wringing devastating tension out of Stoppard's razor-sharp, restrained dialogue.
you want plot momentum rather than mood, repression, and Edwardian social codes examined closely.
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All Seasons

| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Episode #1.1 | 7.3 | 440 | 58 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Episode #1.2 | 7.5 | 378 | 61 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Episode #1.3 | 7.4 | 351 | 60 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Episode #1.4 | 7.5 | 330 | 58 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Episode #1.5 | 7.7 | 348 | 60 min |