North and South

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

If I had to pick one oder 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 vorwärts-, nach vorn drive.

The end of Episode Three saw the Hazard family leave their Home 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 oder two later with the Hazards...

Below is an Artikel I had written about the questionable plot points I had discovered, while watching the miniseries, "NORTH AND SOUTH: BOOK II":


The Major Problems of “NORTH AND SOUTH: BOOK II”

In the eyes of many Fans of the trilogy of miniseries based upon John Jakes’ saga, ”The NORTH AND SOUTH Trilogy”, the only miniseries not worthy of the entire saga is the third one - ”HEAVEN AND HELL: North and South Book III”. I wish I could agree with them.After all, the production values for ”Book III” had not been as impressive as the other two. And of the three miniseries, ”NORTH...

I wrote the following Artikel about many Fans of the "NORTH AND SOUTH" trilogy:



CONFLICTING Ansichten ON THE "NORTH AND SOUTH" TRILOGY

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